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Fashion week venues S/S 2012: womenswear collections
Vivienne Westwood commandeered the recently refurbished Smithfield Market
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Street View: Cornelis Schuytstraat
Amsterdam’s well-trampled tourist trail won’t take you to Cornelis Schuytstraat, but the street in the south of the city has become a top destination for discerning off-duty locals in recent years
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Mathmatics: a beautiful elsewhere exhibition, Paris
Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere is a new exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris. Bringing together prominent mathematicians and well-known artists like Takeshi Kitano and David Lynch, the show aims to take visitors on a visual journey through mathematical thought. This piece, titled ‘O Paraiso’, is by Beatriz Milhazes
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Central to Moscow Design Week was ‘Design Superhero’, a series of installations by German Ingo Maurer, US-based Ron Gilad and Italian Jacopo Foggini, that were spread across the city. Seen here at Gorky park is 'My Neighbourhood’ by Ron Gilad
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Tweet Life: The Wallpaper* 140
Following on from photographer Chris Floyd’s One Hundred and Forty Characters project, for which he brought together and photographed his Twitter connections, we invited Chris Floyd to photograph our own followers at Christie’s, during Frieze Art Fair. Calling out to our enormous flock of over 500,000 tweeters, we invited them to our temporary Wallpaper* Tweet Life studio. Hundreds of you turned up to be snapped. Now Floyd has made an edit of the photographs to produce the Wallpaper* 140. See who made the cut…
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Project Japan, Metabolism Talks
Wall City by Kisho Kurokawa, 1959 -
Aspesi musings by Wallpaper* editors
Aspesi - Editor’s picks
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Womenswear collections S/S2012: show invitations
DKNY
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Architect Daniel Libeskind’s trio of new projects
Run Run Shaw, pioneering film studio chief and one of Hong Kong’s most famous sons, would have applauded Libeskind’s energetic design for the eponymous Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre. Located in the City University of Hong Kong, the 263,000 sq ft building brings together under one roof the new-media, film, design, and photography departments.
Completion: October 2011
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Paris Fashion Week S/S 2012: Grooming Trends
Christian Dior
The glamorous Dior girl flaunted fiery lipstick. Pat McGrath’s chic make-up was paired with elegant but natural low chignons by Orlando Pita -
‘What is produced’ by Liam Gillick at the Maureen Paley stand
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Highlights from Beijing Design Week 2011
Liang Dian
Party decorations at the opening of Liang Dian, Beijing’s first design centre. Located in an ex-computer assembly factory, the renovated 8-storey building provides studio office space and a gallery for a community of architects, lighting designers and young talent -
New print collection from Finlayson
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Hugo França’s casulo sculptures at the R Gallery, New York
At nearly 3.5m, ‘Casulo Cariru’ is made for tactile interaction, to create an appreciation for Brazil’s dwindling resources. This piece was made from naturally felled pequi wood
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Charlie Chaplin, F Scott Fitzgerald and David Niven were all regulars at St. Paul de Vence’s jet-set auberge. Well worth the 30 minute drive from Nice.
La Colombe d'Or 06570 Saint-Paul de Vence, France
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Architecture News: Letter from Turkey
The Seed concert hall, Emirgan, Istanbul by Nevzat Sayin, NSMH
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O'Clock: Time Design, Design Time show, Milan
Michael Sans crucifies the traditional cuckoo clock with this 2008 life-sized version, arranged like an albatross with a digital clock around its neck. It’s called, simply, ‘Cuckoo Clock’
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September travel news: Editor’s picks
Hôtel Americano, New York, USA: Habita Hotels has chosen New York as the location of its first outpost outside Mexico. Hôtel Americano provides Chelsea with a fun new hangout, complete with rooftop pool and café, restaurant and two bars.
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Guest Editors: Lucinda Chua and John Bingham Hall.
Woodward Avenue’s haphazard but somehow wholly appropriate collection of architectural style is completed by the perfectly executed mini French chateau, now housing the Danish consulate
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If you have an iPad you can download the enhanced Wallpaper* iPad Edition - free for subscribers, or available to purchase from your local iTunes store
(Photo of Wallpaper* Composed is from the sampler gallery)
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Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac exhibition
For their first major retrospective, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec will occupy 1,500sq m of the Centre Pompidou Metz until July 2012
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‘OMA/Progress’ exhibition at the Barbican
EU Barcode, Netherlands, Rotterdam, 2001
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London Fashion Week: Grooming trends
For Pringle of Scotland, Paul Hanlon gave models wispy and casual low-hanging and loose ponytails. Mathias Van Hoff kept faces made up to the bare minimum, adding just a graphic touch of colour on eyelids
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Wallpaper* Tweet Life project by Chris Floyd
Style journalists Isabelle O'Carroll, Sarah Drinkwater and Caroline No, shot by Chris Floyd for his One Hundred and Forty Characters project
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Sophie Smallhorn print exhibition, London
As seen with No.16, the collection includes colours that are very ‘flat, solid, saturated’
Photography: Francis Ware
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Ascent, Barber Osberby’s first show for Haunch of Venison, pays homage to the ‘hidden design’ behind boats and planes. The light-emitting 'Corona 1100’ appears to hover just off the wall
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Paris Fashion Week S/S 2012 Womenswear
Models backstage wearing Rochas
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Cerês am Meer, Rügen, Germany
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Faena Arts Centre, Buenos Aires
Located in the city’s booming district of Puerto Madero, the building housing the Faena Arts Center was formerly a busy flourmill producing up to 1,000 tonnes of ground wheat a day
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For the 2011 Panamera S Hybrid, Porsche has added much-needed diesel and hybrid electric options to the orignal 2009 Panamera, which came with a limited choice of V6 and V8 petrol engines
