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Take off in style with the 2026 Wallpaper* Travel Issue, on newsstands now. Pack your bags for lower-profile Greek islands, dress for adventure in Utah, and choose from a quartet of new Wallpaper* Travel Guides for your next city break. Newsstand cover shot at @amangiri Photography: @geordiewood Fashion: @jasonhughesinfo Harness, top, skirt, @hermes . Boots, @calvinklein Collection

The celebrated Wallpaper* Travel Guides return with a new series, revisiting four of the world’s most stylish and culturally vibrant hubs: Milan, Paris, New York City and London. Fully revised and curated by Wallpaper* writers with insider knowledge, each pocket-sized book moves through the cities with precision, mapping the spaces, people and ideas shaping design, architecture, culture and everyday life now. Built for design lovers, each guide offers a considered way into culture-rich getaways, from established landmarks to lesser-seen addresses. Pick up a copy via the link in bio or at wallpaper.com. #wallpapertravelguide

A new vertical landmark has arrived in São Paulo’s Pinheiros neighbourhood. Designed by Brazilian architects @fgmf for @ideazarvos , Valente brings apartments, offices, restaurants and public space into a stacked, shifting structure that feels deeply connected to the rhythm of the city around it. Rising across 21 floors above ground, the building’s expressive façade unfolds through balconies, terraces, and deep window reveals that continuously alter with the movement of light and shadow throughout the day. Inside and out, the architecture creates a multiplicity of views, while duplex and triplex apartments sit alongside commercial spaces in a layered composition that reflects the energy of São Paulo itself. At ground level, landscape design by @rodrigooliveira_paisagismo / softens the transition between tower and street through planting, wider pavements and places to pause, extending the life of Pinheiros directly into the building. See more via the link in bio or at wallpaper.com. 📷: @fernandogguerra 🖊️: @titledasfound

‘The National Portrait Gallery belongs to us,’ says @esdevlin . Through a new partnership with @googleartsculture and the @nationalportraitgallery , the artist is inviting the public to participate in an evolving, collective portrait project on display at the gallery until until 27 October. The portraits are created with an AI tool that Devlin has been training for the past few years using her own chalk and charcoal portraits, plus contributions from her studio’s collaborators for art, music and moving image, merging her artistic approach with machine-made elements. ‘I thought, what if we used the tools that separate us, to unite us,’ she explained. Titled ‘A National Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery’, the project offers ‘a counterpoint to today’s often fractious discourse on “Britishness”, framing national identity as a continuous, always fragile process of collective authorship, shaped by participation and mutual recognition.’ 📷: Bolton & Quinn 🖊️: @biscott_i

The Wallpaper* team caught a quiet moment with the acclaimed London-based artist @yinka_ilori to discuss his joyful installation and limited-edition collection, created in partnership with @veuveclicquot . At the heart of the space stood a striking sun globe, anchoring the entire installation. Encircled by sculptural hands that cradled and protected smaller lamps, echoing the 3D-knitted sun holders developed as part of the wider activation. Reflecting on the intention behind the work, the “Architect of Joy” spoke about the importance of community and the sense of transgenerational joy that can emerge from shared experiences. The team left with a lingering warmth and a quiet sense of contentment. Explore more from Milan Design Week at the link in bio or at wallpaper.com.

Living Divani returns to its essence, marking a conscious evolution of the Italian furniture brand’s visual language. Light, colour, and material take centre stage with the introduction of the ‘Extrasoft’ and ‘Echoo’ systems. A deliberate colour-drenched approach to the campaign imagery draws focus to the sculptural presence of the sofas, which seamlessly merge with their surroundings. Shadows and surfaces interact, turning each frame into a distinct mood. This bold direction signals a clear statement for the brand’s future – one that embraces risk while opening a new horizon of essential, radical, and deeply grounded design.

At @ellis_works_ , the humble cabinet handle becomes something closer to a miniature sculpture. Founded by industry veteran Alex Bellos, the Brooklyn-based company approaches knobs, pulls and handles as objects that sit between art, material experimentation and daily use. Working from a workshop in Sunset Park, Bellos collaborates with a tight roster of local artists to create hardware that balances artistic exploration with functionality. Produced in ten finishes, from polished brass and nickel to verdigris and antique patinas, the pieces bring a sculptural quality to everyday interiors without losing sight of how they are held, touched and used. Designed in-house, each Ellis Works collection approaches hardware as both a functional object and a considered part of the home. Rooted in artisanal heritage and shaped by modern design, the pieces balance sculptural form, materiality and practicality, bringing a quieter sense of craft and detail into everyday spaces. For @nycxdesign , Ellis Works has partnered with Canal Street lifestyle brand @whoiswilliamwhite on an immersive installation exploring how hardware can quietly shape daily rituals and domestic space. See more from Ellis Works via the link in bio or at wallpaper.com. 📷: Ellis Works 🖊️: @adrian_madlener with contributions from @michaelreynoldsnyc

New York Design Week 2026 (@nycxdesign ) is taking over the Big Apple, across galleries, showrooms and downtown spaces where light, craft and creative influence take centre stage. Here are some of the moments catching Wallpaper*’s attention across the city. 1. At @calicowallpaper Tribeca, New York-based architect and designer Suchi Reddy (@reddymadedesign ) presents Luminous, a wallcovering collection shaped by colour, pattern and neuroaesthetics, exploring how light and visual experience influence mood and wellbeing. 2. At the @apparatusstudio , ‘PEEPSHOW’ with @puiforcat transforms silverware into glimpsed spectacle. Through darkness, peep holes and glimmering metal, the installation reflects on time, repetition and the sustained dedication behind craft. 3. Upstairs from the @verso_works x Office of @tangible.space exhibition, ‘The Espasso Apartment’ brings together Brazilian and South American design in a domestic setting layered with international dialogue. 4. Also at 'Nothing Comes from Nothing’, presented by Office of @tangible.space and @verso_works , pairs contemporary works with historic design pieces, tracing how creative influence, process and lived experience continue across generations. 5. @maidenhome debuts the Eva Collection during NYCxDesign, bringing together hand-cast ceramic tiles, solid wood frames and the traditions of American Arts and Crafts through work shaped by artisans across New York and Colorado. 6. At @11_howard , @design_hotels and @lumens present ‘The New York Edit’, an exhibition curated by @simple_flair exploring light as a narrative device through the atmosphere and energy of New York City. See more in our New York Design Week 2026 live updates from the Wallpaper* team at wallpaper.com. 📷: @ollymason0

Set between a pine forest and agricultural land on the Spanish island of Formentera, Ses Clotades by architect @mcastello_arch draws directly from its Mediterranean surroundings. Rolling hills, sand dunes and low vegetation shape a residence built around ideas of ascent and descent, solidity and permeability, light and shadow. Designed as a cluster of crisp white volumes, the house unfolds through terraces and outdoor circulation spaces, allowing the architecture to remain discreet within the landscape and adapt to different rhythms of inhabitation. Mature trees soften the composition further, while the fragmented plan creates a continual dialogue between interior and exterior. Inside, artist @elena.vinyarskaya curated the home through objects and artworks that extend the atmosphere of the landscape into the living spaces, turning the residence into a carefully composed environment rather than a singular architectural gesture. Read more via the link in bio or at wallpaper.com. 📷: @mcastello_arch 🖊️: Ellie Stathaki

Inaugurated this April at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the exhibition 'A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art' presents a symphony of stories from 20 global artists. The show explores how artists reinterpret colonial-era photography to tell polyphonic, restorative stories through impactful artworks. Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's (@chimamanda_adichie ) quote is used as a springboard to stress the power of imagery and art as a healing force: 'When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.' The exhibition is available to visit until the 6th of September. 1: A Kind of Paradise, artists: Tshepiso Moropa; Raphaël Barontini © Museum Rietberg 2: @raphaelbarontini , The Golden Ladies, 2026 © 2026, ProLitteris, Zurich, courtesy the artist 3: @tshepisomoropaa , Night Riders, 2025 © Tshepiso Moropa, courtesy the artist 4: @yukikihara , First Impressions: Paul Gauguin, 2018 © Yuki Kihara, courtesy the artist and Milford Galleries 5: @di_mathopa , Individual Beings (Moving VI), 2023–24 © Dimakatso Mathopa, courtesy the artist; Museum Rietberg 6: @tuliphoenix , Ancestral Deities, Rituals of Initiation, 2022, courtesy the artist and Guns & Rain Story image: Wendy Red Star, Spring – Four Seasons, 2006 © Wendy Red Star, courtesy the artist; collection of the Newark Museum of Art

With New York Design Week underway, we’re celebrating the launch of the Wallpaper* New York Travel Guide with French-American designer @sophieloujacobsen . Based in New York City, Jacobsen’s work spans collectable design, tableware and interiors, creating objects that blur the boundaries between functional design and decorative art. To mark the launch, we explore the city through Jacobsen’s perspective, uncovering the places, neighbourhoods and design moments shaping New York right now. Pick up your guide and discover our edit of where to visit in New York at wallpaper.com. #WallpaperTravelGuides 🎥: @i.a_n_

@clubrhubarb , the nomadic project founded by artist-turned-curator Tony Cox (@ronlittles ), channels the gritty, transgressive energy of an older downtown New York, before soaring rents and chain stores reshaped the city’s creative landscape. Following earlier iterations in Cox’s Chinatown walk-up and a Dimes Square townhouse, Club Rhubarb now occupies a discreet two-floor house opposite the New Museum. Inside, the space unfolds less like a traditional gallery and more like a shifting, unpredictable environment shaped by material experimentation, humour and refusal. Its latest exhibition centres on artist Brock Enright (@cbe1888 ), who has spent the last three decades producing genre-pushing mixed-media works driven by instinct, material force and a gnarly imagination. Across the installation, humour and sternness sit side by side, creating a world that feels raw, strange and deeply open-ended. Step inside the latest exhibition via the link in bio or at wallpaper.com. 📷: @thomasloof 🖊️: @osmancanyerebakan with contributions from @michaelreynoldsnyc