ILLUSTRATOR: CAROLINE ANDRIEU WRITER: HARRIET LLOYD-SMITHROBERT STOREY
Interiors stylist
After a studio trip to Essaouira, on
Morocco’s Atlantic coast, Storey fell for
the majestic shifts in sunlight he witnessed
throughout the day. This was applied
to our Moroccan-inspired interiors story
(page 220), where the riad’s traditional
arches, pillars and plaster textures were
married with classic colours of Majorelle
blue and Marrakeshi pink. ‘An exploration
of outdoor and indoor space led us to
create a semi-abstracted space through
atypical planting and rooless sets,’ he says.CAROL SACHS
Photographer
Globetrotting photographer Sachs is
currently embarking on an ambitious cycle
ride from Tokyo to London. Fortunately,
we caught her in the right place at the right
time to shoot our trip story focusing on
Nara’s next generation of entrepreneurs
(page 242). ‘It’s deinitely worth a visit
of its own, and not just as a day trip from
Kyoto; it was such a treat to be able to see
behind the scenes of all these amazing
designers’ work,’ she says.ALI MORRIS
Writer
When she irst turned up at Wallpaper* as
an intern in 2006, Morris never dreamt she’d
still be traversing the globe for us 12 years on.
This month, she tracked down one of our
four architecturally awesome winter holiday
homes, Bahrain’s Reef house (page 139),
a structure boasting impossible forms and
astonishing views. ‘At one point, the house’s
two volumes meet in mid air, millimetres
apart,’ says Morris. ‘It’s one of those
buildings that you can’t quite believe exists.’RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
Artist
Turning the bounty of the kitchen into
meditations on culture and belonging,
Thai conceptual artist Tiravanija has
prepared and served meals in gallery spaces
ranging from MoMA to the National
Gallery of Singapore (his Japanese tea house,
surrounded by a bamboo maze, is perched
on its roof garden until the end of October).
His contribution to our monthly artist’s
recipe series (page 258) is the Buñueloni,
a twist on the Negroni that, he says, is
‘best drunk before dinner’.SEAN O’TOOLE
Writer
For this issue, the South African journalist
chatted with former oilman and model-
turned-art collector Michael Fitzgerald
about his new Bo-Kaap abode and dissected
Cape Town’s conlicting architectural styles
(page 094). ‘The post-apartheid construction
boom has seen the rise of a “Cape-copy”
style that treats modernism as efect,’
he says. Multi-talented O’Toole has just
released an album with painter Zander Blom
(whose work Fitzgerald collects) – together
they go by the name of The Bad Reviews.JOHNNIE SHAND KYDD
Photographer
Many a notable subject has gazed down the
barrel of Shand Kydd’s discerning lens; here
it was the turn of Mexican architect Frida
Escobedo, sporting Paul Smith’s new tuxedo
collection for women (page 115). ‘Frida was
a delight to work with, a far cry from the
severe Weimar look she was sporting,’ he
says. Shand Kydd’s latest venture, involving
a 5x4 ilm camera, is under construction,
a mission, he says, ‘to get as far away from
the snap quality of Instagram’ as possible.∑
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