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ILLUSTRATOR: HSIAO-RON CHENG

MATTHEW MORRIS

Wallpaper* interiors stylist

Morris has never let logistics get in the way

of a good story. Having hauled outdoor

furniture to the side of a Norwegian jord in

the snow for a photo shoot last year, he

proposed hotting things up this month. ‘We

lew to Marrakech and drove nine hours into

the desert with our chairs and tables,’ he says

of his Saharan sortie, which also involved

quad bikes and camels. See the results on

page 290. Meanwhile, it’s next stop Milan for

Morris, who’ll be styling our pick of Salone

for The Wallpaper* House in our July issue.

THE CAMPANA BROTHERS

Designers

This year’s Salone sees Brazil’s most

illustrious design duo present their ‘Outer

Space Monsters’ as part of Czech glassmaker

Lasvit’s Monster Cabaret show (page 162), as

well as new products for Edra, Louis Vuitton

and Ghidini 1961. Fernando and Humberto

also found time to share their favourite

recipes with us, selecting a beef brochette

from a São Paulo restaurant and a family

dish of salted cod respectively. See the irst-

ever double dish Artist’s Palate on page 326.

HENRIETTA THOMPSON

Writer

For our look at factories of the future (page

120), Thompson made for Swarovski’s swish

new Manufaktur building in Austria, to

interview group chairman Markus Langes-

Swarovski and Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil

Trædal Thorsen. ‘The conversation quickly

turned visionary,’ she says. ‘We went from

designing a building to the evolution of the

human race in three minutes.’ Thompson

has grand plans of her own, the launch of a

new interior design and art platform, Harth.

PHILLIP K SMITH III

Artist

Working from his Californian studio,

RISD-educated artist Phillip K Smith III

produces light-based installations set against

great expanses of desert, on public display

from Los Angeles to Nashville. He designed

our limited-edition cover using photographs

of the desert and sky, a teaser for the new

mirrored installations he has created for

fashion label COS, to be shown at Milan’s

Salone. See our interview on page 180,

and a preview of how he will draw down the

sky into a 16th-century palazzo courtyard.

HADANI DITMARS

Writer

Since she irst worked for us in 2000, we’ve

sent Vancouver-based Ditmars to locations

as far-lung as Baghdad and Samarkand.

This month she stayed closer to home,

interviewing the grande dame of landscape

design, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (page

128), in her home city. ‘It’s always a pleasure

to talk to Cornelia,’ she says. ‘It’s also a

special honour as she designed the day care

centre I attended as a three-year-old.’

Ditmars is writing a travelogue on ancient

sites in Iraq, to be published by IB Tauris.

BRIAN GRIFFIN

Photographer

Known for his ‘capitalist realist’ portraits

of workers, award-winning photographer

Griin shot our tailoring story (page 298)

in an empty oice at One Canada Square in

London’s Canary Wharf. ‘To ind myself in

such a large oice, once occupied by so many

people, was inspiring. It was good fun to use

it in an unorthodox, almost anarchic, way,’

says Griin. His new book, Spud (£35, Gost),

digs up the history of a First World War

battleield, now used to grow potatoes.

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