ULLA VON BRANDENBURG
Artist
Von Brandenburg’s orangettes feature as
this month’s artist recipe (page 434). The
German installation artist explains that
her mother doesn’t like sweets, except for
oranges with dark chocolate, which have
become the default sugary nibble for her.
Following on from a solo show at the
Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, for which von
Brandenburg furnished a fictional artist’s
residence with paper objects, she has been
commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery
to create a new installation, ‘Sweet Feast’.SOPHIE LOVELL
Germany editor-at-large
Lovell has flown the Wallpaper* flag since- This month, she joined guest editor
Tomás Saraceno’s Aerocene crew on a test
launch (page 355) and talked to filmmaker
Gary Hustwit about his new Dieter Rams
documentary (page 136). ‘The two stories
were diametrically opposed,’ says Lovell.
‘Minimal precision versus creative
hedonism, but both share a message: if
we don’t change our attitude to the planet
fast, we are lost’.
JESSICA ROSE
Art director
Steering the art department at Wallpaper*
since June 2016, the Canadian-born Rose
is also a budding wordsmith, named best
new writer at this year’s National Magazine
Awards of Canada for a piece published in
Toronto Life, and currently penning her first
novel. This issue, she checked out a Puglian
palazzo (page 282), then jetted off to Berlin
to explore guest editor Tomás Saraceno’s
studio and witness one of his fossil fuel-free
Aerocene flights (page 337).TONY BROOK
Graphic designer
A founding partner of London’s SPIN
studio, Brook draws graphic elegance from
complexity. He put his own creative spin
on Neri Oxman’s editorial takeover (page
297). ‘Working with Neri was a wonderful
experience; her ideas are profound, complex
and world altering. We have lived and
breathed this project.’ The SPIN team is
currently working with ceramicist Billy
Lloyd on refining his brand identity, and its
book on graphic design doyen Vaughan
Oliver is being published by Unit Editions.CATHERINE HYLAND
Photographer
London-based Hyland has a knack for
capturing humanity’s complex relationship
with its environment, so we tasked her
with documenting cashmere titan Brunello
Cucinelli’s forward-thinking fashion
operation in Umbria (page 234). ‘It’s pleasant
to see someone investing in the standard of
workers’ lives and being so aware of giving
something back to a community,’ says
Hyland. She is currently working on a new
project based on the relevance of rituals
spanning different cultures.SIR DON MCCULLIN
Photographer
There isn’t much that British photographer
McCullin hasn’t fixed his lens on, from
wars to rural landscapes. For this issue,
he focused his eye on Prince Charles’ eco-
friendly Aston Martin with its modified
engine fed on cheese by-product and surplus
wine (page 168). These days you might find
McCullin documenting the backstage bustle
of an Alexander McQueen fashion show
or prepping for his large-scale retrospective
at Tate Britain opening in February.082 ∑ ILLUSTRATOR: ORIANA FENWICK WRITER: HARRIET LLOYD-SMITH
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