Publication

Palace Skateboards

Cult streetwear brand Palace Skateboards was born in the concrete underbelly of London’s Southbank Centre, where a series of ledges, ramps and pillars has served as an impromptu skatepark for the past five decades. The brainchild of Lev Tanju and...

Dark force

Lit by a single strip of cool white, these sharp all-black clothes are staged within scenes from a stark odyssey. They are an exclamation mark. A slash through the disarray of dim biscuit, cloudy nude and wan magnolia. Across the seasonal collections,...

Lone hero

These women I create have a mind of their own,’ says artist and Wallpaper* US400 honoree Danielle Mckinney. ‘They really challenge me. There is an alchemy that has to happen as I paint.’ Mckinney is a chronicler of the human condition, and particularly...

Body talk

The way I work is by preparing myself to relinquish a lot of control,’ says German visual artist Anne Imhof. ‘The piece is often a performance, held in spaces where the audience can walk freely and leave or stay however they please. In taking their own...

The first London outpost of pioneering luxury wellness hotel brand Six Senses

Once one of London’s great department stores, Whiteley’s, in Queensway, had lost some of its grandeur in recent decades as the retail landscape changed. But a growing trend for large-scale restoration and transformation in favour of demolition was its...

Dark matters

GLOBAL INTERIORS

The first major show dedicated to the radical Antwerp Six opens at Momu

‘It wasn’t like a pop group coming together and singing the same song. All six of them had different solo careers in mind,’ notes Geert Bruloot, one of three curators working on a new exhibition, opening at Momu in Antwerp at the end of March, which...

TIME WARP

Collaborations between watch brands can be very successful when each brand brings a strong visual identity of their own to the table, so when the richly traditional Swiss manufacture Ulysse Nardin announced a partnership with avant-garde Genevan...