Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2023 i Wallpaper

ANDRÉ FU Designer Our At Home series this month takes us to Hong Kong, where we check in with interior architect Fu (page 060). The award-winning creative behind The Upper House hotel in Hong Kong, Fu finds inspiration in ‘the most unassuming places, like small cafés and markets’. He is currently working on a lifestyle collection, inspired by urban silhouettes, as well as a suite for London’s Claridge’s and a flagship shop for tech accessories brand Casetify in Osaka. KENT ANDREASEN Photographer Based in Cape Town, Andreasen initially studied cinematography before focusing on still photography. For this issue, we sent him to Mozambique, where he perfectly framed the dunes of Kisawa Sanctuary (page 112) and met with a friendly yet elusive local. ‘We were invited to take a boat trip…

Creative collaboration has been part of the Edition Hotels group’s core values since its inception more than a decade ago. And with locations ranging from Miami Beach and Madrid to Barcelona and Bodrum, every attempt is made to reflect the local culture that surrounds each hotel. For its Edition Artist Series, the group seeks out talented local artisans to create exclusive products that will appear in guest rooms, restaurants and public spaces. Guests then have the option to purchase the item as a special memento of their trip. At the Edition Reykjavik, a recent collaboration between the hotel restaurant’s head chef, Gunnar Karl Gíslason, Iceland’s only Michelin-starred chef, and ceramic artist Guðbjörg Káradóttir, has resulted in a series of pieces that reflect their shared passion for the dramatic local landscape…

Designing an aircraft that ensures 238 people feel as good as can be expected after spending the best part of a day at 39,000ft could be something of a daunting challenge. It was a task set for David Caon, who was commissioned by Qantas to design the new cabins on its Airbus A350 jets, which, from 2025, will fly for up to 21 hours non-stop from London and New York to Sydney and Melbourne. Caon recently redesigned Qantas’ Airbus A380s, adding a bar, but his work on the A350 jets, 12 of which the airline has ordered at a combined cost of almost half a billion dollars at list prices, could not be more different. Its cabins need to be as lightweight as possible to minimise fuel consumption on their…

A five-hour drive south from the South Korean capital of Seoul lies a popular sunrise-watching spot: Cape Ganjeolgot, near the eastern coastal city of Ulsan, is where the sun first rises on the Korean peninsula. Here, nestled serenely on a clifftop, is Seosaeng House. Named after the Old Korean word for ‘the brightening East’ or ‘new life’, the soft-coloured two-bedroom holiday home makes a striking contrast against the blue sea, yet blends perfectly with the sky’s tones as the sun rises and sets on the horizon. Seosaeng House’s unusual upward-slanted roofs are designed to allow in maximum sunlight, making extra room for generous windows below. Wide openings frame views of the sky and the water. ‘From anywhere in the house, if you look to the east, you see the sea,’…

01. SUMMER PALACE GARDENS Bukhara’s Sitorai Mokhi Khosa (or Palace of Moon-like Stars) was originally built in 1917 as a retreat for the last Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan, to escape the intensity of the region’s hot summer months. Set in a series of rose gardens and overlooking a large reflecting pool, the site blends local architecture with Russian influences, and comprises a palace with an impressive banqueting hall, an ornate guest house and a traditional tea house. The grounds are a key public space for the city today, offering a place to stroll under the shade of large trees. Fountains cool the air while peacocks add colour and visual delight. 02. REGISTAN SQUARE Constructed under the rule of Timur the Lame in the 14th century, the monumental Registan Square…

New horizons Welcome to the Travel Issue! As a global brand, we at Wallpaper* cherish the life-affirming power of travel to enrich, inspire and connect our communities. Our team of international correspondents comb every corner of the world to bring you the best and most interesting travel stories, with expert local insights, as seen through the Wallpaper* lens. For this issue, we put travel in the spotlight, starting with two extended features from our award-winning ‘The Trip’ series. First we jet off to the groundbreaking Kisawa Sanctuary, Nina Flohr’s ambitious ‘resort-to-research’ hotel, located on an island off the coast of southern Mozambique. The resort is also behind Africa’s first permanent ocean observatory dedicated to multi-ecosystem research. ‘What interested me in Mozambique was that I could do something interesting from a…

Cocktail maestro and the former president of the UK Bartenders’ Guild, Salvatore Calabrese is the mastermind behind Velvet, the new bar at London’s Corinthia hotel. Its darkly opulent interiors, by David Collins Studio, look like they’ve been transported from the Golden Age of Hollywood, with a profusion of crimson and ink blue velvets, gold walls and fringe lamps. The extensive cocktail menu features 1920s classics like the Bee’s Knees, a Prohibition-era favourite made from Tanqueray gin, lemon juice and honey, as well as signature Calabrese creations, such as the Spicy Fifty, which blends Stolichnaya vanilla vodka with elderflower, fresh chilli and lime juice. Most notable, however, is the bar’s menu of seven different martinis, including a Breakfast Martini made from Tanqueray gin, cointreau, lemon juice and orange marmalade. corinthia.com/london, @velvetatcorinthia…

Detroit recently welcomed the first phase of Michigan Central, a sprawling, 30-acre walkable hub in the city’s Corktown neighbourhood. Named after the historic railway station acquired by the Ford Motor Company in 2018 following decades of neglect, the hub will encompass a mix of new and revitalised buildings, offering facilities for city, regional and international inventors and investors to work with civic and government leaders to ambitiously address the future of mobility innovation. The first out of the gate, housed in a former book depository, opened at the end of April. Originally designed in 1936 by Albert Kahn, the building was initially used as a post office, but was later taken over by Detroit Public Schools for book storage, before being abandoned following a fire in 1987. The building now…

Mozambique, the emergent southeast African nation now home to Swiss entrepreneur Nina Flohr’s Kisawa Sanctuary, is sometimes described as the pearl of the Indian Ocean in reference to its stunning 2,470km-long tropical coastline. Recognising this, Flohr has made the aquamarine waters surrounding Kisawa a strategic feature in her ambitious first development, a ‘resort-to-research’ venture on Benguerra Island, the second largest of six islands in the Bazaruto Archipelago in southern Mozambique. Set amid pristine dunes on the southern tip of Benguerra, Kisawa is a blissful hideaway conceived and piloted to completion by Flohr’s Dubai-based design studio NJF. The core of the resort is a collection of 11 one-, two- and three-bedroom residences, tactfully located out of view of one another. Each residential compound has its own open-air deck space with infinity…

Seventeen years after the release of Gérald Genta’s iconic Royal Oak watch for Audemars Piguet in 1970, designer Emmanuel Gueit rethought its elegant proportions in sketches that conjured up a more generously proportioned, bulkier model. On its eventual release in 1993, the Royal Oak Offshore – nicknamed ‘The Beast’ – spoke to a younger generation that delighted in its robust form. Since then, the Royal Oak Offshore has become a design classic in its own right, with multiple iterations in materials ranging from titanium and forged carbon to steel and gold. Now, for the first time and to mark the Offshore’s 30th anniversary, Audemars Piguet unveils the first Offshore watch in black ceramic, complete with matching bracelet and patterned dial. The sleek pitch black is broken up by bold white…

When Factory International, designed by OMA, opens in Manchester this year, it aims to break the barriers, quite literally, between audience and performer. ‘The challenge was that it was anything but a traditional theatre, says lead architect Ellen van Loon. ‘We were discussing the shape of a new era for theatre; a building that doesn’t have a front of house or back of house distinction – every space needed to be used for everything.’ The fairly raw structure was purposely conceived to be very flexible, the antithesis of the typical theatre where everything is fixed and all the technical elements are hidden away. Every aspect was fine-tuned, from the purpose-built truck lift to bring in large elements and the moveable acoustic wall that can divide up the main hall into…

Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi, the founders of Copenhagen-based architecture studio GamFratesi, were already very familiar with Bang & Olufsen and its close connections to the design industry when the legendary audio brand invited them to collaborate on a special-edition portable Bluetooth speaker. The designers’ light-filled studio, in Østerbro, is filled with prototypes and maquettes of recent work, including bentwood and rattan seating for Gebrüder Thonet, and the acclaimed ‘Beetle’ chair for Gubi, and the pair set about combining their ongoing material experimentations with a reverential look at Bang & Olufsen’s impressive archives. For Fratesi, the audio brand represents one of the touchstones of modern Danish design. ‘They have been so innovative, they create with simplicity, and their work is always of such high quality,’ he says. Bang & Olufsen…

Paola Paronetto rarely welcomes visitors to her workshop in Porcia, a small town in the north-western Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, but, to mark her collaboration with Veuve Clicquot, she happily makes an exception for Wallpaper*. The project, which coincides with the champagne house’s 250th anniversary, sees the ceramic artist create the case and bottle for the newly released 2015 vintage of La Grande Dame, Veuve Clicquot’s premium cuvée, designed in homage to brand doyenne Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (known as Madame Clicquot). The new vintage will be available in Europe this summer, following its initial launch in the US last November. For the launch of La Grande Dame 2012 in 2020, Veuve Clicquot had called on Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who adorned the champagne bottle and case with her distinctive polka…

On the west coast of Barbados, the land drops away from the hills to the sea. The prevailing breeze comes from the east, easing the consistently warm Barbadian climate, whose winter temperature average of 26°C is only a degree lower than the summer average. The hills are shaped into a series of steeper slopes and flatter ridges, and it was on one of these ridges, next to a polo field, that architect Douglas Patrick Luke took some clients to look at a potential site. Like many of the architects that have designed luxury villas here, Luke has an impressive CV, having studied architecture at Florida A&M University before working with Demetri Porphyrios, Léon Krier and Stefanos Polyzoides. However, unlike many of his competitors, Luke is Barbadian. Indeed, he was living…