Wallpaper Design

Gourmet food has traditionally been presented in decadent or excessive packaging in order to convey its quality. However such extravagance is not always necessary, and we've highlighted minimalis…

Earlier this month WGSN-homebuildlife spotted the work of glass and ceramics student Maham Anjum at the Royal College of Art's work in progress show in London. Maham's work aims to investiga…

The office and showroom of Japanese stationery company Haguruma Envelope Co Ltd is featured this month on WGSN-homebuildlife's report on inspirational office interiors. Haguruma are specialist m…

The Beaufort Bar at the Savoy, London For the first in a series of reports focussing on interiors analysis for the contract sector, WGSN-homebuildlife visited The Savoy, recently reopened following a…

Berlin's world-famous Christmas markets provide inspiration for WGSN-homebuildlife subscribers this week. Amongst the traditional German themes on offer, including handcrafted wooden toys and del…

Swedish designers Front have designed a clock for Italian brand Porro on which the hours are cast by shadows. Each of the twelve numbers is fixed perpendicularly to the face, and can be read straig…

This year, Design Miami relocated and set up the tents on the parking lot opposite the Convention Center which houses the main Art Basel show. The show, which used to be in the Design District, was…

Everyday Life Books, the publishing arm of design and lifestyle magazine Apartamento , have teamed up with Italian design brand Iittala to launch Historien om en mugg (The story of a mug), a book b…

London stationers Present and Correct have opened a Christmas pop up shop in Clerkenwell, London that is styled to look like a vintage classroom. Since 2003, Present and Correct have sold a carefull…

Photo by Daniele Fragale WGSN-homebuildlife's Milan correspondent Farah Pallaro has sent us images of a new Milanese vintage fair, described as a mix between a flea market, a bazaar and a circus.…

Global colour authority Pantone has announced that Honeysuckle will be its Colour of the Year for 2011. Following on from 2010's titleholder Turquoise, Honeysuckle's vibrant reddish pink ton…

Garden Furniture by Kevin Hunt Materials expert Chris Lefteri has turned his attention to the most innovative new composite materials in his latest report  for WGSN-homebuildlife, including this livi…

Christmas decorations in the 1870 room WGSN-homebuildlife this week paid a visit to the annual Christmas exhibition at London's Geffrye Museum , which tracks Britain's changing interior taste…

The Waterhouse at South Bund by NHDRO. Photo by Pedro Pegenaute The Waterhouse at South Bund, a former Japanese army headquarters turned into a hotel by Shanghai-based designers Neri and Hu Design an…

In August earlier this year, Norwegian designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen won the Time to Design Award award with her project, Developing Time – Time Developing, which is both a clock and a knitting ma…