Monday, March 15, 2010

Wallpaper* (March 2010)

The latest issue of Wallpaper* has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

ARCHITECTURE
  • Cast away We're holing up in Estonia in a concrete bunker with a view
  • Radical edge in Woodstock Teeth-like louvres, a Sky Mirror and a trio of domes - just what your 1960s bungalow needs
  • Daddy's boy A chip off the old concrete block, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr's Sowden House is a temple to Californian cool

DESIGN

  • The new Edwardians A restoration drama in London's E2
  • Rocking Ron Arad The man ensuring Arad's new show is full of shake, rattle and roll

FEATURES

  • Mill power Zegna, the textile dynasty that built a whole town in the Biellese Alps

FASHION

  • A-grade accessories It's the little things that count
  • Scan it, bag it The future of shopping
  • Sheer factor Why menswear is making a fine mesh of things
  • Show us your knickers Basques, bras, corsets - our smalls are living in large on the outside

FOOD

  • Artist's palate We all love Noble & Webster's marrow sublime

FRONT OF BOOK

  • Newspaper Ron Arad's 'Well Transparent' chair; swimming trunks - the long and the short of them; animal architecture; seagull egg and soldiers

INTERIORS

  • Fate accompli Good luck with the décor, we say

TRAVEL

  • Checking in Philippe Starck's interiors are on the white lines at Venice's newest hotel
  • Departure info A black-sand bolt-hole in Bali; happy Camper in Berlin; top banana in St Barts; Spanish highs in Barcelona

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