| | Bill Prince, editor-in-chiefWith the legacy of modernism, and its later evolution, brutalism, remaining as strong as ever – and dear to the hearts of Wallpaper* editors – you’ll find plenty of attention to both in our annual gathering of the globe’s most galvanising design projects, the Global Interiors issue of Wallpaper*, which hit the newsstands this week. |
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We visit 20th-century properties that are being reimagined for the 21st, from Liguria to Milton Keynes, and, with the news that London’s Southbank Centre has finally achieved Grade II-listed status, we ask Modernist Estates author Stefi Orazi to write about brutalism’s origins and meaning today. Also in the issue, we shine a spotlight on Dutch designer Hella Jongerius, who is throwing off the shackles of commercial projects to focus on more personal work. Read our interview below, after you’ve made time for Weekendpaper’s modernist architecture tour in New Delhi with Ian Macready, a man who spent three decades navigating London’s design world before launching ‘a very small new company’ that leads intimate tours weaving together architecture, food and travel (much like ‘the ideas behind Wallpaper* magazine’, as he puts it). The Weekendpaper* mix also brings chic frills from fashion week in Paris, ‘ listening furniture’ for audiophiles in Tokyo, a utopian spherical home in São Paulo that’s the hub for art and design fair Aberto5, and wise words from David Byrne’s choreographic collaborator. |
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Tour Joseph Allen Stein’s New Delhi, where modernism ‘allows you to slow down’ |
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It hardly seems possible in a world as intensely documented as ours that there remains a corner of New Delhi that, while familiar, perhaps, to architects and insiders, might be barely known to the rest of us. Locals call it Steinabad – a district unified by the work of a single man, an American modernist who arrived in India in the early 1950s, not by design but by necessity, fleeing the long arm of McCarthyism. That man was Joseph Allen Stein, and his legacy – a collection of low-rise, beautifully shaded cultural institutions softened with stone, water and lush landscaping – looms quietly in the shadow of Lutyens’ imperial grandeur. Three-quarters of a century later, Architourian, a boutique architecture travel outfit founded by Ian Macready, has made Steinabad a cornerstone of its India itinerary, which extends to a broader seven-night journey through Delhi, Chandigarh and the Himalayan foothills. Daven Wu meets Macready to talk about Stein, the art of architectural pilgrimage, and what the rest of the world still has to learn from a building that knows how to make you breathe. |
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Discover Hella Jongerius’ next chapter, fuelled by anger, joy and experience |
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Hella Jongerius is one of the great designers of her generation. At 62, she doesn’t have to prove anything to anyone, and she doesn’t need to make a name for herself; she’s done that already with sofas for Vitra, cabin and seat interiors for KLM, textiles and seating for the UN with Maharam and Galerie Kreo, and porcelain pieces with Nymphenburg, not to mention solo shows and installations around the world. But instead of hunkering down, consolidating her reputation and cashing in commercially, Jongerius has decided to divest herself of her extraordinary archive, stop making commercial products and dive deep into new channels of investigation. The bulk of her studio archive is now entrusted to the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, where it forms the basis of the first retrospective of her work, opening on 14 March. Ahead of the show, Jongerius tells Sophie Lovell what’s next, including the joy of creative collaboration, the freedom to ‘speak out’, and her most furious foray into clay yet (her ongoing series of angry creatures, she says, all have women’s names, ‘because we have every reason to be angry with the bullies of this world’). |
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Frills and thrills from Paris Fashion Week |
Paris is hosting a crammed, nine-day-long schedule of shows (running until 10 March, this fashion week is nearly double the length of its counterparts in New York, London and Milan), and Wallpaper* editors are reporting from the runway throughout.
Highlights so far include Jonathan Anderson’s sophomore collection for Dior – a walk in the park, or across a lily pad-strewn pond in the Tuileries Gardens to be precise, that was all about ‘seeing and being seen’; Pieter Mulier’s swansong for Alaïa, encapsulating the idea of ‘modern beauty’ which has characterised his time at the house; and ‘joy, experimentation and play’ from Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez at Loewe. Hotly anticipated as we write are Matthieu Blazy’s second act for Chanel (on Monday), Michael Rider at Celine (showing today, Saturday), Duran Lantink at Jean Paul Gaultier (on Sunday), and much more – follow the action with our live blog.
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