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ILLUSTRATOR: AISTĖ STANCIKAITĖ

JOANA VASCONCELOS

Artist

Exuberantly coloured and monumental in

scale, Vasconcelos’ sculptures of day-to-day

objects are sly critiques of consumerist

culture. This month’s Artist’s Palate (page

178) sees her Fruit Cake – normally made

from plastic sand moulds overlaying a

stainless steel frame – translated into edible

form. Vasconcelos has been gearing up

for her new show at Edinburgh’s Jupiter

Artland, which includes a swimming pool

installation with hand-painted Portuguese

tiles, a pool house and sculptural objects.

LEANDRO FARINA

Photographer

Renowned for his eye for detail, meticulous

use of light and thoughtful still-life

compositions, Canada-born photographer

Farina has this month turned his lens

on collections of wire chairs (page 144),

transforming the ‘nearly invisible designs

into graphic silhouettes’. A Wallpaper*

stalwart, Farina is based between London

and New York and works with editorial

and commercial clients including Dunhill,

British Airways and Swarovski.

JOHN SHORT

Photographer

We’ve come to rely on Short for his ceaseless

commitment in perfecting a Wallpaper*

story and he certainly put in the time this

month. ‘Stylist Laura Fulmine and I entered

a world of curves for three months in our

research for the shoot,’ he says of our Space

story (page 164), which celebrates the

circular. ‘The shoot has definitely changed

the way I look at a straight line.’ The

photographer is currently busy working

on a book project ‘of an arboreal nature’.

LAURA FULMINE

Stylist

Researching this month’s exquisitely curvy

Space story (page 164), Fulmine found

inspiration in one of her favourite buildings,

Pierre Cardin’s Bubble Palace on the French

Riviera. ‘Its architect, Antti Lovag, once

said he considered the straight line to be an

aggression against nature, and I definitely

came round to his way of thinking,’ says the

London-based stylist, who started her career

working for fashion designers Luella Bartley

and Giles Deacon, and is currently working

on a boutique hotel project.

GIOVANNA DUNMALL

Writer

A British-Italian writer based in London,

Dunmall travelled east for us, heading

to Romania to discover the work of local

craftspeople in collaboration with designers

Nadja Zerunian and Peter Weisz (page 084).

‘My trip was eye-opening,’ she says. ‘I learnt

about spectacular crafts and skills that

have been carried out by Romanian artisans

for centuries but are often undervalued and

so are at risk. What I came away with was

a feeling that regular and constant support

is key, not big, flamboyant, one-off projects.’

MARINA CASHDAN

Writer

Based in Brooklyn, Cashdan is head of

editorial content at Artsy, an art discovery

platform for collectors and artists. For

Wallpaper* this month, she interviewed

fellow New Yorker Roni Horn in her

rural studio (page 066). ‘It felt strangely

satisfying to see that the environment

I had imagined Horn’s work being created in

was so similar to her actual surrounding –

a quiet and isolated piece of land in upstate

New York,’ says Cashdan.

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