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‘We were interested in the stratification of the soil, which in turn inspired our scenography for Salone’, say the collective.

On the island of São Vicente, near the former colonial capital of Mindelo, another tour de force of creation is taking place – this time of architectural proportions. 

The kitchen’s materials were chosen based on functionality, and local availability – as was the case with the castle kitchens, which helps to retain a simplicity of manufacture.

With the completion of Crematorium Siesegem, a project led by Vincent Panhuysen, KAAN Architecten can count another thoughtful structure as part of their portfolio. 

De Wyngaert has curated ‘Soft? Tactile Dialogues’, an exhibition staged by Antwerp’s fashion museum MoMu – and the very first one, in the museum’s 16-year history, to focus on textiles instead of fashion. 

More than a century old today, the Brussels-based atelier Vervloet, that creates high-end handcrafted hardware is a favourite among top-tier designers like Paris-based Parmentier.

As part of the city festival ‘Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens inspires’, Burez was commissioned by MAS to display the synergy between old and new forms of baroque.

In Saint-Gilles, a residential corner of Brussels, Ananda Escriva and Franck Laÿs have been quietly laboring over Récolte (French for ‘harvest’), an organic and co-operative skincare brand three years in the making.

The New Brutalism. Feature on the newest Fosbury & Sons outpost in Brussels. Wallpaper* July 2018

The New Brutalism feature on the newest Fosbury & Sons outpost in Brussels. Wallpaper* July 2018

The New Brutalism feature on the newest Fosbury & Sons outpost in Brussels. Wallpaper* July 2018

The Brick is a contemporary gym located in Antwerp’s hip South area. ‘We accidentally heard these premises were vacant through a friend, and immediately fell in love’.

Housed in a former patrician’s residence alongside a canal, Ampla House is the Flemish city’s first state-of-the-art collaborative workspace with an individual design outlook.
 

Architect Michel Penneman, together with the Everland group, created an atmosphere that reflects the fashionable concept of hygge – a Danish word that denotes the conscious creation of cosy environments in order to cultivate well being. 

Interview with Brussels-based designer Xavier Lust for the In Residence feature of Wallpaper*'s January 2018 issue. 

Interview with Brussels-based designer Xavier Lust for the In Residence feature of Wallpaper*'s January 2018 issue. 

Interview with Brussels-based designer Xavier Lust for the In Residence feature of Wallpaper*'s January 2018 issue. 

With a bi-colour imprint that turns suede straps and linings into a trademark, Marvais shows an evident knack for conceiving recognisable yet versatile bags with a sound sensibility for construction.  
 

Yadoya, in the North quarter of Brussels, is evidence of the Belgian capital’s ability to cultivate unexpected little pockets of character.

A new exhibition at Antwerp’s MoMu fashion museum focuses on the synthesis Martin Margiela reached between concept and commerce in his collections for the French luxury house Hermès.
 

The new Antwerp penthouse Belgian architect Glenn Sestig designed for the artists Luc Tuymans and Carla Arocha. Wallpaper* April 2017

The new Antwerp penthouse Belgian architect Glenn Sestig designed for the artists Luc Tuymans and Carla Arocha. Wallpaper* April 2017

The new Antwerp penthouse Belgian architect Glenn Sestig designed for the artists Luc Tuymans and Carla Arocha. Wallpaper* April 2017

‘People now realise that signet rings are not just about a family crest', says Emmet Smith, director of Rebus.

Studio visit with the Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis in Rotterdam for Wallpaper* March 2017

Studio visit with the Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis in Rotterdam for Wallpaper* March 2017

In times of unrest, we all need some kind of armour, but Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo took the concept to new levels, [...] Arguing for beauty over brute force, the precisely cut voluminous layers explode like high-impact flower bombs. 

In Ann Demeulemeester’s visual language, feathers figure heavily as symbols of freedom, humbleness and poetry. The free-spirited Belgian designer uses them often as keepsakes at her shows, but also in her jewellery.
 

Based on the idea of an alternative reality other than life on Earth as we know it, Kepler, a new London-based fashion brand by Alexandra Hadjikyriacou and Jaimee McKenna feels just like that: strangely familiar, yet stimulatingly singular.
 

Price’s shoes and accessories brand FEIT reflects an evolution towards ‘neoluxury’.
 

Atelier YUL, a minimal accessories brand for creatives who need to carry around their sometimes unconventionally sized and shaped materials.
 

‘Transformative and fun’ is how Stephen Jones characterises his life’s work – millinery – in the introduction to his latest monograph, Souvenirs, penned by Susannah Frankel, and with a touching foreword by his close friend, Grace Coddington.
 

Using her signature 'tham ma da' technique, Navone’s design connects Joyce’s four floors by filling the space with seemingly ordinary elements taken from the everyday, and elevating them to points of interest.

Long before photography was considered art, Erwin Blumenfeld positioned himself as a photographer for ‘art’s sake’: an artist determined to manipulate his medium, the camera.
 

When Raf Simons designed a furniture range with Kvadrat, the fashion world pricked up its ears. Tsatsas, who so far worked solely with natural leathers, approached Kvadrat with the idea of using the furniture textiles for a bag.

'The architects chosen to participate in this exhibition are architects who go the extra mile, who go above and beyond that what a brief prescribes.' 
 

In Elie Saab’s first London flagship, architecture agency RDAI has succeeded in striking a balance between restraint and opulence – the kind of elegant abundance the Lebanese designer is known for.
 

Amid Regent Street’s hustle and bustle, there’s not always much time to stop and take in the lavishly designed displays – but the RIBA Regent Street Windows project is back for its seventh year to give us pause.
 

'Latin America Collection', is the starting point of an ongoing series of books by Leonardo Finotti, the leading Brazilian photographer whose work has become a worldwide benchmark for architectural photography.
 

Strictly producing every garment in and around the Hungarian capital, ÁERON embraces an ethics of quality that resonates with an audience that in four years has grown to include 15 countries.
 

In the multi-layered city of Istanbul, multiple voices resounded last weekend at the sixth edition of IST Festival. Held at the Vakko Fashion Centre on Saturday and at Soho House Istanbul on Sunday, the days were packed with panel discussions that revealed myriad viewpoints.
 

At different venues in the environs of the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in the heart of Florence, an exhibition named ‘Across Art and Fashion’ considers the often-discussed relationship between fashion and art.
 

In and around the former Medici strongholds of Forte di Belvedere, Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio, Fabre builds a rapport with the strong political and religious symbols this cradle of the Renaissance is strewn with, reactivating them through his own work. 

A new urban axis has been taking shape in the Southern Belgian city of Liège, starting at the Santiago Calatrava-designed train station, via a pedestrian bridge, and up until a shopping and audio-visual centre designed by Ron Arad. 
 

As in New York, the Independent art fair's Brussels edition looked to complement the city's buzzing art scene, strategically choosing the week(end) of Art Brussels for the inaugural iteration of its trademark fair model on European soil.

Art Brussels’ 34th edition signaled something of a turning point – a deepening of the contemporary art fair’s distinctive character.

In Antwerp, where better than a disused diamond cutting factory to set up a company with like-minded friends? For WeberHodelFeder, a footwear brand named after its three founders’ last names, the Flemish city was more than just a practical choice.

For its 25th anniversary, the current owners of RAS – an acronym for Restaurant on the Stream – tasked local Antwerp agency Co.studio to refresh the interiors and maximise the connection to the waterfront.

At the tail end of the Brutalist movement, in 1974, the Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens completed a residence in Sint-Martens-Latem near Ghent for the teacher Albert Van Wassenhove.  

Located between West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon, just around the corner from the legendary Chateau Marmont, Richard Neutra's Josef Kun House #1 is one of the modernist architect's iconic landmarks in Los Angeles.  

LONDON WOMENSWEAR A/W 2016 SHOWS

'I’m sort of a servant of beauty', says Jan Fabre, looking around the Ronchini Gallery in Mayfair. He’s taking in the selection of works that form his solo exhibition ‘Knight of the Night’ – works, he says with a wondrous expression, he hasn’t seen in about 20 years.

At first sight, Isabelle Cornaro’s installation Paysage IX seems to be, simply, a configuration of grey-scale blocks; a minimalist presence in a square space enclosed by white walls. And that’s what it is – but there’s also much more to it.

A selection of show and presentation reviews of the London Collections: Men A/W 2016 season

Verheyden’s inclusion in Wallpaper’s Power 200 list is testament to the relevance of the highly distilled forms of their streamlined objects in natural and noble materials.

Markus Karstieß, a German sculptor, takes cues from the latter form of symbolism and ancient art history for an exhibition at Bruce Haines Mayfair.
 

 'I consider my practice as a way to control the non-controllable', the Italian artist explains on the eve of ‘TBC (August)’, her first solo exhibition in London, held at the contemporary art platform Bosse & Baum in Peckham.
 

Vk Lillie, a Paris-based jewellery brand, crafting one-of-a-kind necklaces inspired by Native American culture and spirituality, answers a growing desire for beautiful objects that also have personal value and a deeper meaning.

Conceived by partners Sion and Tiffany Phillips, jewellery brand Studio Uribe is a bold amalgamation of their respective upbringings in Wales and Chile, and of their professional backgrounds in advertising and fashion.
 

The transparent tent let the bright autumn light in unmercifully, and mirrors placed at varying angles at the edges of venue cast the light back, brightly illuminating Saunders’ signature coloured garments.
 

Louis Vuitton opens up Nicolas Ghesquière’s creative process and influences for a broader public in ‘Series 3’, an exhibition taking up three floors of 180 Strand, a Brutalist office building in central London. 

Founded in 2009 by Tassos A Gkekas, a new exhibition takes the Greek gallery owner’s personal collection to VOLKS, a former Volkswagen warehouse, to stage ‘Investment Opportunities’.
 

Working together, Christian Wijnants and Andreas Bozarth Fornell, a Belgian fashion designer known for his knitwear and and a Swedish architect discovered they have much in common
 

The exhibition Footprint: The Tracks of Shoes in Fashion, at Antwerp’s Fashion Museum (MoMu), gathers about 600 pairs of shoes from the 20th and 21st century, in order to map their imprint via the personalities that shaped them.

 

British brand in-grid couldn't be more straightforward. 'We make white shirts. For women. Made in England', their website reads - a simple statement that captures the conceptual mission of Katie Timothy and Adam Barclay.

Lauded as much for its cutting-edge art direction as its critical enquiries into notions of gender and sexuality, l'imparfaite mixes myriad visual formats and textual approaches, creating a unique design for each issue, with close attention paid to the power of typography and print design.
 

Roman Road presents May Hands' first UK solo exhibition 'Bleach' 

Eddie Borgo's A/W 2015 jewellery collection, inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of roses, is striking proof of the maturation the New York designer has experienced since starting out in 2008.
 

Within the glass walls of North Greenwich’s NOW Gallery, a 30kg glass bead curtain hangs suspended from the two-storey high ceiling. Titled ‘Floating, Falling, Drowning, Flying - An Introspective of Process', it’s Phoebe English’s most sizeable and ambitious installation to date.

A collection of close-up images made by Alex Hammond and Mike Tinney document that most accessible of creative devices: the pencil. 

'A Greater Freedom and 'Hepworth in Yorkshire' respectively focus on the last ten years of Hepworth's life and offers a glimpse into her early life, displaying a selection of Hepworth's early artworks alongside archive photographs and a some of her own studio tools.

Politics, popularity and painting: Katerina Gregos provides us with some new perspectives at Art Brussels

Judging from the turnout at the launch of Richard Kilroy’s Menswear Illustration book, published by Thames & Hudson, it’s safe to say that illustrated renderings of menswear are a much-loved approach to interpreting fashion.
 

Hermès Wanderland, Saatchi Gallery's latest exhibition, realistically recreates the hunting ground of the nineteenth-century flâneur, complete with covered arcades and shopfronts
 

'Role Play' brings together Steven Meisel's most notable photographs, taken over three decades, from his seminal grunge photograph of Daniel Blaylock and Kristen McMenamy to his images of establishment supers like Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista
 

Belgian heritage brand Delvaux opens its first London home on New Bond Street

Kunst K, a New York-based skincare brand, integrates ancient knowledge of the benefits of vitamins and oils with modern lab technology.

To coincide with the launch of the new collection, VSP has unveiled a new Paris flagship store designed by Istanbul-based architect Han Tümertekin. 

As the culmination of Bulgari's ongoing project of reacquiring its historical jewels, a growing Heritage Collection that was previously itinerant is now permanently housed in DOMVS, a gallery space above the Italian jeweller’s Via dei Condotti boutique in Rome.

At the RCA, the experience of designing a final collection is about the personal journey of exploration and creation.