TF CHAN
Wallpaper* commissioning editor
‘It is difficult to imagine a more committed,
resourceful bunch than the designers
and makers who have put together the new
Noma,’ says Chan, who interviewed those
behind René Redzepi’s reborn restaurant in
Copenhagen (page 188), as it was being built.
Chan’s own typical tenacity came in handy.
‘Ten minutes into my interview with René,
he decided to take me to the construction
site. I sat in the box of his famed Christiania
bike as he pedalled us along the streets of
Christianshavn! It was the ride of a lifetime.’BODIL BLAIN
Entrepreneur
Co-founder of coffee company of Kru Café,
our new columnist Blain invites her first
interviewee, fashion designer Duro Olowu,
for coffee and creative smalltalk on page 074.
‘I was fortunate to meet him years ago and
was deeply impressed with his knowledge
across the arts,’ says Blain. ‘He represents
the best of the London fashion scene, in that
he is an individualist and he isn’t afraid to
tackle bias. I wanted to talk to him about the
basis of creativity.’ALICE RAWSTHORN
Design critic
A speaker at global events such as TED
and Davos, and now Wallpaper’s inaugural
Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore,
Rawsthorn explores the transformative
power of design for business and beyond on
page 137. ‘At a time when we face tumultuous
changes on many fronts, we urgently need
design to help us confront them,’ she says.
A former director of the Design Museum
in London, Rawsthorn is set to publish her
latest book, Design as an Attitude, in May.TOMÁS SARACENO
Artist
Like a modern day Leonardo da Vinci,
Saraceno is a man of seemingly unlimited
talents. Having trained as an architect
and risen to prominence as a visual artist,
he’s since made his mark on disciplines
as diverse as arachnology, cosmology and
particle physics, collaborating with the
likes of MIT, NASA and CERN to better
our understanding of the universe. And as
it turns out, his culinary prowess is rather
formidable too – see his contribution to
our Artist’s Palate series on page 290.DAN TOBIN SMITH
Photographer
Installation and still life specialist
Tobin Smith has been the steady hand
behind some of Wallpaper’s most beautiful
imagery for 18 years, casting domestic
objects in a remarkable new light. This
month we teamed him with a familiar
collaborator, editor-at-large Leïla Latchin,
to place art and design in a new frame.
See the elegant but eye-boggling results on
page 252. London-based Tobin Smith’s
commercial clients include Absolut Vodka,
Louis Vuitton and Nike.JAN SØNDERGAARD
Photographer
Copenhagen-based Søndergaard captures
the craft and creativity behind the making
of René Redepi’s new Noma (page 188).
The task included completing eight portraits
as designers, makers and architects came
together on the construction site – ‘100
people working on the same spot and
Redzepi in the eye of the storm’, he says.
Next up for Søndergaard is the publication
of his new book, with stories from the
Vatican City, this spring.052 ∑
CONTRIBUTORS
ILLUSTRATOR: ADAM CRUFT