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Welcome to our annual Awards issue, where

we honour the year’s highest achievements

in design, architecture, fashion and beyond.

This is our round-up of the best products

and brightest talents that have raised our

pulse and kept our pecker up.

Regular readers will be familiar with the

format, but for the newcomers, I’ll explain.

The issue is split into two perfect parts.

Part one is essentially the Wallpaper* love

list – a compilation of our favourite things,

debated, deliberated upon and ultimately

decided by Wallpaper* staffers together

with our global network of editors,

photographers, writers and stylists. Enjoy

the fruits of a year’s worth of globetrotting,

researching and polite bickering.

Part two is the Judges’ Awards. Eleven

major award-winners have been selected

(from a shortlist put together by Team

Wallpaper*) by an international panel of

judges – all experts in their fields. This year

we were blessed with the sharp minds and

sagacity of architectural force of nature

Farshid Moussavi, culinary world champs

René and Nadine Redzepi, the always rakish

environmental artist Daan Roosegaarde,

model, fashion entrepreneur and

campaigner Liya Kebede, and the ultimate

designers’ designer (and 2017 Designer of

Core blimey!

Newsstand cover
Photography:
Hélène Binet
One of two staircases
designed by Gwenaël
Nicolas for Dolce &
Gabbana’s revamped
Mayfair store, in
which a multitude of
marbles are patchworked
together with millimetre
precision, among them
Indian Black Lightning;
Brazilian Nordic White
and Copacabana; French
Nero Grand Baroque;
and Chinese Panda
White. See page 062

Limited-edition cover

by Farshid Moussavi

Having served on

the jury for this year’s

Judges’ Awards

(see page 132), architect

Moussavi also designed

our special cover,

featuring an original

pattern for a wallpaper

concept inspired by

a Simone Rocha dress

Limited-edition

covers are available

to subscribers, see

Wallpaper.com

Wallpaper* is printed

on UPM Star, upm.com

the Year), Jasper Morrison. A big thank-you

for your time and impeccable judgment.

Also look out for our Next Generation

Designer award online at Wallpaper.com.

This particular prize honours a promising

design tyro who has impressed us over the

last year and looks set to make an impact

in the future. Last year’s winner, Gustavo

Martini, has had a fruitful 12 months and

his furniture collection ‘The Grove’ even

made our 2018 hit list (see page 060).

Special thanks go to our sponsor,

watch manufacturer Officine Panerai.

Its design acumen, aesthetic heritage

and skilled combination of technology and

craftsmanship make it the perfect partner.

Finally, our annual celebration of the

exemplary usually closes with the naughty

page. A playful rummage through the year’s

design stinkers. This issue, though, we have

added an analytic edge and historical

perspective to our list of misadventures.

In the first of an ongoing series we are

snappily tagging History’s Worst Design

Decisions, we look at fatal, or at least

commercially injurious, missteps in the

tech sector, from the $400 Wi-Fi-enabled

smoothie maker to Snapchat’s spooky specs.

Next Generation designers: look and learn!

Tony Chambers, Brand & Content Director

AS SEEN AT DESIGN MIAMI,

THE CORE PAVILION

BY PHILIPPE MALOUIN,

A CONTENDER FOR

WALLPAPER’S DESIGNER

OF THE YEAR. DID HE

WIN? SEE THE JUDGES’

AWARDS, PAGE 132

EDITOR’S LETTER