Ten questions for Edmund de Waal OBE

The celebrated potter takes a moment to talk about his exquisitely designed monograph, a new project with David Chipperfield, the myth of tactility and what's better - an OBE from the queen or being signed up by Larry Gagosian

Edmund de Waal OBE

One architect's Swiss village revival in retrospect

You may not have heard of Gion A Caminada but since the '70s he's slowly been transforming an alpine village

Gion A Caminada - Vrin, Switzerland Image by Lucia Degonda

New painting show inspired by Sottsass

Hernan Bas’s Memphis Living paintings are an homage to the bright, challenging work of the designer

Hernan Bas - Memphis Living (tea glove, after General Idea), 2014. Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London © Hernan Bas

Phaidon at the Whitney Biennial

Find out more about the artists, curators and writers we’re proud to have worked with at the 2014 exhibition

Zoe Leonard, 945 Madison Avenue, 2014 (installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Murray Guy, and Galleria Raffaella Cortese. Photograph by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York

Ed Ruscha’s first public commission in NYC

His 1977 word painting will appear as a large hand-painted mural beside The High Line next month

Rendering of Ed Ruscha's forthcoming High Line commission

Grimshaw designs world’s biggest airport terminal

The British practice, working with two other firms, will build the one-million-square-metre Istanbul Grand Airport

Plans for Istanbul Grand Airport

Peter Blake remakes Sgt Pepper for Royal Albert Hall

Pop artist makes a massive mural for 143-year-old venue featuring all the performers who have appeared there

The original Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band shoot

The Insider's Guide to Sao Paulo

Jewellery designer Camila Sarpi on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide


And you thought Shigeru Ban just did cardboard?

New images of the Pritzker Prize winning architect's Tribeca redevelopment show Manhattan life at its most chic

Cast Iron House, Tribeca, New York - Shigeru Ban

George Lois on Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter

The legendary ad man explains how he got Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan to help free the falsely convicted boxer

George (centre, in a Hurricane campaign t-shirt) and co-organiser Paul Sapounakis talk Bob Dylan into writing the protest song, Hurricane (1975)

More arrests in abstract expressionism forgery case

Two brothers arrested in Spain and new indictment in New York reveals how the forgeries were created

Jackson Pollock's Untitled was one of the forged paintings

On Earth Day a new video of Apple’s green HQ

A newly leaked video stresses the Cupertino office's peerless environmental and design credentials

Apple's new headquarters by Foster + Parters

Bruce Nauman by the man who knows him best

Peter Plagens on how America's most reclusive artist was actually inspired by an Austrian philosopher

Art Make-Up, 1967-8, 40 min, colour video with sound, 16mm - Bruce Nauman

Ten Questions for Tomi Ungerer

The much decorated children's author and illustrator talks about life in the camel corps, jail breakfasts, how snakes got a bad rep and why he thinks he’s a lunatic

Tomi Ungerer, Moon Man

Andy Warhol's Race Riot goes under the hammer

Previously owned by Robert Mapplethorpe, Warhol's screen print is up for sale at Christie's next month

Race Riot, 1964 - Andy Warhol

Pawel Althamer stages one day show

Sculptor closes New Museum retrospective with a show of new works in the museum’s storefront space

The Neighbors, New Museum storefront - Pawel Althamer, photo by Peter Tittiger

Drive in church is inspired by motorway signage

Siegerland Motorway Church by Schneider & Schumacher is based on a simple pictogram image

Siegerland Motorway Church, Wilnsdorf - Schneider & Schumacher

MVRDV brings Vertical Village into your home

Architects' statement on apartment block construction in Asian cities turned into fun furniture line


Meet us at the Food Book Fair

This month we're coming to Brooklyn for a few days of food, writing, reading, and fun

The Food Book Fair. Photo by Liz Clayman

Why Yayoi Kusama’s new sculpture is for lovers

The 85-year-old artist says this new public work for a Taiwanese train station is all about dressing up for a date

Yayoi Kusama's rendering for Let's Go and See Our Boyfriends in High Heels. Courtesy of the Railway Reconstruction Bureau.

Ai Weiwei father and son show in Britain

This summer the Yorkshire Sculpture Park pairs Ai Weiwei’s work with readings of his father’s poetry

Ai Weiwei, Iron Tree, 2013. Cast iron, edition of 3, (H) 628 x 710 x 710 cm. Images courtesy of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Lebbeus Woods’ high-concept architecture in NYC

The late, great American architect, best known for his work on paper, gets a retrospective at the Drawing Center

San Francisco Project: Inhabiting the Quake, Quake City (1995) by Lebbeus Woods

Ferran Adrià on cannibalism and creativity

The chef delights crowds, fellow chefs and Australia’s media, as he winds up his promo tour on a high

Ferran through the monitors at Fairfax Media’s Melbourne studios

You've got male! (and he's called Tom of Finland)

Art & Queer Culture illustrator Touko Laaksonen is honoured by Finnish post office in new series of stamps

Detail from one of the Finnish post office's Tom of Finland stamps

Mies van der Rohe by Jeff Wall and Edmund de Waal

Architect's influence and buildings prove haven and horror for two artists with a very different take on less is more

Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona 1999 by Jeff Wall

The Insider's Guide to Ho Chi Minh City

Fashion designer Adrian Anh Tuan on the city's secrets as revealed in our Wallpaper* Guide

Fashion designer and Wallpaper* City Guide insider Adrian Anh Tuan

What happened when Danny Lyon joined Occupy?

Right from his earliest days with the Outlaws motorcycle gang The Seventh Dog photographer has never flinched from documenting society's rebels. Here's what happened when he spent time with the Occupy protest movement

Occupy demonstrators on Broadway, Los Angeles - Danny Lyon from The Seventh Dog

Wally Olins 1930-2014

The pioneer of corporate 'brand architecture' and champion of intuition dies after a short illness

British branding consultant Wally Olins

The things people ask Ferran Adrià

As he winds up his Australian tour we round up the most interesting questions and answers asked by the fans

Ferran Adrià - elBulli 2005-2011

Sara Cwynar makes something new from anything old

NY photographer uses old images to make new ones that resemble “that junk drawer everyone has in their house"

Gum Display Stand, No. 64 CONS H. 8 1/4” W. 24” D. 16 1/2” ” (2014) by Sara Cwynar,  from Flat Death

Banksy attacks surveillance culture with new mural

Street artist on top of the news cycle as ever with new street work and mysterious facebook posting

Cheltenham Banksy

What’s happening during Print Month?

Galleries and institutions celebrate artistic prints and print making - entry is half price to Phaidon Club members!

Francis Bacon,  Three Studies for a Self Portrait, 1983 Lithograph on Arches paper, 1990  94.5 X 52cm  Signed and numbered from the edition of 60.  Published by Michel Archimbaud for the Librairie Séguier, Paris and printed by Art Estampe, Paris Courtesy: Winwood Gallery.

The Barcelona Pavilion minus its doors

Photographer Jordi Bernadó reinterprets Mies van der Rohe's iconic building

The Barcelona Pavilion - Mies van der Rohe and Jordi  Bernadó

The book that captured pre-Sartorialist street style

The Photobook III praises the Japanese streetwear anthology Fruits that captured Tokyo styles at their wildest

Fruits (2001) as it appears in The Photobook: A History Vol III

What did you miss at the Milan Design Fair?

John Pawson’s light designs, Nendo’s dip-dyed shirts and Zaha Hadid’s wall features were a hit this year

Nendo X Cos installation at this year's Salone del Mobile, Milan

McCarthy and Bouchet's Bilbao billboard torn down

Gugenheim says it's a commercial, not artistic, work and 'discredits' the institution

Bouchet and McCarthy's Bilbao billboard

James Franco does Cindy Sherman

Actor says his new take on Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills allows him to 'refashion' the work he does in Hollywood

Detail from James Franco's New Untitled Film Still 21 (2013); detail from Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Still 21 (1978)

Wylie Dufresne's big surprise

Magnus Nilsson, Alex Atala and René Redzepi go undercover for the foodie event of the year

Wylie Dufresne and some of the finest culinary technicians operating today

Your chance to meet Stephen Shore

The legendary photographer and creator of From Galilee to the Negev hits the West Coast later this month

Stephen Shore

David Chipperfield's home for the Nobel Prize

The architect’s Berlin office wins the chance to design a Stockholm HQ for the prize-giving body

The Nobel Center's exterior. © David Chipperfield Architects

Connect 4 game inspires Italian storage unit

Still struggling with the middle youth thing? DISK36 evokes happy childhood memories in your living space

DISK36 by E1+E4

Ten questions for Martin Parr and Gerry Badger

Our selfie-taking photobook experts on rarity, collecting and why the photograph is like a time machine

Martin Parr's Selfie of himself and Photobook III co-author Gerry Badger - Phaidon, London 9.4.14

Andreas Gursky’s pre-digital world

Photographer's early landscapes prove he could capture the modern world without recourse to computers

Andreas Gursky Alba, 1989, 87 x 108 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches Copyright: Andreas Gursky / DACS 2014
Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London

If Ettore Sottsass designed your town

Illustrator Lauren Rolwing imagines a world where Memphis rules

Sottsass - Lauren Rolwing

Sarah Lucas debuts furniture line in Milan

Artist says the materials used are "meaningful" and the furniture is "surprisingly stylish"

Sarah Lucas Furniture (2013)

The Insider's Guide to Havana

Singer Eme Alfonso on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide

Singer, composer and Havana resident Eme Alfonso

Could you live with Studio Job's wallpaper designs?

The Belgian duo's new Archive Wallpapers collection for Dutch brand NLXL go "beyond styling"

The Withered Flowers pattern from Studio Jobs' Archives Wallpaper collection for NLXL

Concrete culture from Louis Kahn apprentice

If you loved our book Concrete take a look at this building from the master's last apprentice

The Konan Ward Cultural Centre by Chiaki Arai

Joel Meyerowitz revisits 1960s Europe

The Howard Greenberg Gallery recreates Joel's 1968 exhibition, shot entirely from inside a moving car

Joel Meyerowitz, Greece (MoMA title: Greece. Corfu), 1967 Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1967, 9 X 13 3/8 inches (C) Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Pentagram gives Sotheby's a new look

The leading design studio reworks the branding for the legendary auction house


Ten questions for Nick Lander

The Art of The Restaurateur author on iPad dining and why waiters worry when you nip out for a cigarette

Nick Lander, author of Where Chefs Eat

The building they said couldn't be built

Using the smooth overlapping scales of a pine cone as their inspiration Oikios triumph in Switzerland

Intercontinental Hotel, Davos - Oikios Architekten - photo: René Müller Photographie/seele.com

What to expect at the Milan Design Fair

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius' furniture for Vitra and Artek are our stand-out works among this year's stands

Hella Jongerius' reinterpretation of Alvar Aalto for Artek debuts at this year's fair

Ten questions for Paris Photo's Julien Frydman

Paris Photo director and former Magnum man talks to Phaidon.com about this month's Los Angeles fair

Julien Frydman (left) with Roberta Armani and Sean Penn, at Paris Photo LA, 2013. Photo by Randall Michelson

Two designs cater for New York’s increasing numbers

With a million more residents expected in the city by 2040, two firms propose some out of the box thinking

Urban Alloy, New York - AMLGM

Marina Abramović to do nothing this summer

The performance artist will be the only exhibit at London's Serpentine gallery from 11 June until 25 August

Marina Abramovic, Portrait with Scorpion, Eyes Open (2005)

Neville Brody creates typography for new England kit

Will it be a future design classic that ends up in the next edition of the Archive of Graphic Design?

England team strip - typography by Neville Brody

Hunter S. Thompson's advice to Danny Lyon

When his photographer buddy joined a motorcycle gang the infamous writer implored him to "Get the hell out!"

Crossing the Ohio, Louisville - Danny Lyon

Wikipedia rolls out redesign

Readers will benefit from (though may not actually notice) subtle changes to typography

The Wikipedia logo

Karim Rashid's splash of colour in Miami

Mybrickell features designer's Pop Art-inspired magic from top to bottom

Mybrickell Condo, Miami - Karim Rashid

Warhol’s lost mural returns to New York

The Queens Museum is commemorating the Warhol mural 13 Most Wanted Men, 50 years after it was banned

Detail from 13 Most Wanted Men (1964) by Andy Warhol

The Bouroullecs debut their glass collection at Milan

The French design duo’s Diapositive furniture collection for Glas Italia picks up where Shiro Kuramata left off

The Bouroullecs' Diapositive range for Glas Italia

When Danny Lyon met Muhammad Ali

The US photographer shot America's protestors, dissidents and agitators - and the world's greatest boxer

Muhammad Ali, April 1970, by Danny Lyon

Does this new Zaha Hadid hotel look like a swimsuit?

The Pritzker laureate's latest tower appears to share some aesthetic qualities with her new swimwear range

City of Dreams Hotel Tower, Cotai, Macau by Zaha Hadid Architects

Why apartheid South Africa's greatest nightlife photographer died before seeing his first show

The Photobook III's Martin Parr and Gerry Badger on the life, work and untimely death of Billy Monk

A spread from Billy Monk, from The Photobook: A History Volume III

What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more?

The aphorism is one of the most used (and abused) in design and architecture. Detlef Mertins, author of an exceptional monograph on the master architect, reveals how it came about and what it meant to him

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, Berlin, 1907-10

Koons, Schnabel and Hadid create Fabergé eggs

Artists, architects, photographers and designers contribute eggs to the jeweller's annual charity Easter egg hunt

From right: Tracey Emin and Bruce Weber's contributions to the Big Egg Hunt

Adrià dish inspires award-winning water packaging

Designers draw upon the elBulli chef's use of membranes to produce Ooho!, an edible water carrier

Ooho! by Skipping Rocks Lab

When Danny Lyon was just two dogs in

The photographer's 1962 work, shot in the South, was an early example of a burgeoning confrontational style

The Police, Clarksdale, Mississippi 1962 - Danny Lyon from The Seventh Dog

Ai Weiwei sends 6000 stools to Berlin

Artist references a seminal 1913 Marcel Duchamp readymade in huge new Berlin installation opening this week

Stools (2014) by Ai Weiwei, courtesy of Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

René Redzepi's Tokyo Story

The chef will relocate Noma to the Japanese capital for two months at the start of 2015

René Redzepi plans to move noma to Tokyo for two months next year

Ten questions for Nan Goldin

The Eden and after photographer on addiction, Robert Pattinson, motherhood and collecting human skulls

In the elevator at the Bauer, Venice, Italy, October 2013, by Nan Goldin

The Photobook III on show in Madrid

Throughout April the Ivorypress bookshop will display rare titles featured in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's book

A spread from Afronauts by Cristina De Middel. As featured in Ivorypress's Photobook III display

Inside the Texas Department of Corrections 1968

In the 1960s Danny Lyon moved to a cattle ranch in Texas. Nearby was the Texas Department of Corrections, a prison complex whose past inmates had included Leadbelly - these are some of the photos he took there

The dominoes players, Walls Unit, Texas Department of Corrections - Danny Lyon

How the world caught up with John Stezaker

The 64-year-old photo collage artist and photobook author is finding success late in life a little overwhelming

Spread from The Third Person Achive by John Stezaker, as featured in The Photobook: A History Volume III

Sarah Jones's alchemical camera

Photography Today cover artist explores how subjects are measured and flattened in new series of pictures

Detail from Rosehip (I) (2014) by Sarah Jones

Richard Prince inspires Christie’s Instagram sale

The auction house attracts young collectors with a sale named after a Prince painting and lots on Instagram

Untitled (Cowboy) (1989) by Richard Prince. One of his Cowboy works features in the sale

Jean Paul Gaultier comes to London

The touring exhibition dedicated to the French designer opens at the Barbican next month

Ad campaign for the Tribute to Frida Kahlo collection.  Women’s prêt-à-porter spring/summer 1998. Art direction and photography: Jean Paul Gaultier © Jean Paul Gaultier

Alvar Aalto's Savoy Vase inspires a new hockey puck

Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery's latest idea aims to level the playing field between opposing teams

Aalto Puck - The Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery

Tillmans, Beuys and Nauman lined up for Manifesta

The European biennial announces the list of artists for this year's event at the State Hermitage in St Petersburg

Francis Alÿs, Draft for Lada project. Collage with gold leaf, 2014, 11.5 x 13 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

Ai Weiwei asks for his passport back

Artist releases video in which he talks of his desire to visit Berlin for upcoming Martin-Gropius-Bau show

Ai Weiwei appealing to Chinese authorities to return his passport

Shigeru Ban wins the Pritzker Prize

Judges laud the architect's ability to "respond to extreme situations caused by devastating natural disasters"

Shigeru Ban on his 10 Unit System Chair, 2009

Obrist, Warhol and Emin in your hotel room

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden's new exhibition, Room Service, extends its reach to the town's hotels

William Eggleston Untitled (Motel Room with Fluorescents), from The Los Alamos-Portfolio, 1965-1968, Dye-transfer-print, © Eggleston Artistic Trust, Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York / Sammlung Museum Folkwang, Essen. From Room Service

Snøhetta unveils two very different designs

New projects in Mecca and on a mountainous archipelago show diversity of architecture practice

Lofoten Opera Hotel - Snøhetta

How one man and a hyena changed the photobook

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explain how a personalised documentary approach revitalised photography

Cover image from The Hyena & Other Men, 2007 by Pieter Hugo, from The Photobook: A History Volume III

How is John Pawson's Design Museum coming along?

Architect and author has opened up the roof but compares the basement excavations to 'marine archeology'

The new Design Museum. Photograph by Jan Hobel

Bouroullec brothers get touchy feely

French design duo unveil first fabric collection with Kvadrat at upcoming Milan Design Week

Canal, Moraine, Gravel - Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Kvadrat

New Jersey's loftiest building takes to the skies

70-storey Journal Squared provides an architectural counterpoint to late era brutalism of PATH station next door

Journal Squared (J2), New Jersey - Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) and Handel Architects

Shepard Fairey does Ai Weiwei

Street artist and graphic designer dedicates new portrait to Ai's ongoing struggle with the Chinese government

Detail from Shepard Fairey's Ai Weiwei print

Hotel Hotel is a who's who in down under design

Fender Katsalidis and Suppose Design Office's Canberra hotel ticks the box for every happening design firm

Hotel Hotel, Canberra - Suppose Design Office and Fender Katsalidis

Nan Goldin "People forget how radical my work was"

She may have influenced a generation of photographers but accepts no responsibility for their work

Shadow of a dead bird on Simon’s window, Stockholm, September 2013, self-portrait, by Nan Goldin

Hans J Wegner honoured in centenary year

'The King of Chairs' is called "the most important Danish designer ever" by curator Christian Holmsted Olesen

Easy Chairs - Hans J Wegner

Tomma Abts's Painting Abstraction

German artist often takes years over her canvases which she lays on a table, as if writing rather than painting

Shwiddo 2008 - Tomma Abts

Fiona Strickland designs new Royal Mail stamp

Our How to Boil an Egg illustrator is one of the artists featured in a new series commemorating WW1

Royal Mail WW1 stamps

Ferran Adrià on Charlie Rose

elBulli chef talks over his gastronomic legacy as well as capturing the restaurant’s greatest years in print

Ferran Adrià poses in front of ElBulli 2005-2011 photo by Scott Rudd

Stan Douglas’s hard-boiled stage and screen hybrid

The Canadian artist has teamed up with scriptwriter Chris Haddock to create a multi-layered, live film-noir

Lisa Ryder in Stan Douglas's and Chris Haddock's Helen Lawrence. Photo by David Cooper

Pentagram's carbon free foot print

Design agency works with Do The Green Thing charity on environmentally friendly posters

Walk the Walk by Marina Willer for 29 Posters for the Planet

The Insider's Guide to Moscow

Garage project manager Katya Istratova on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* guide

Katya Istratova, project manager at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture

Shigeru Ban to design Mount Fuji visitors’ centre

World Heritage site centre resembles upside-down latticed cone - an architectural inversion of the mountain itself

Mount Fuji World Heritage Center - Shigeru Ban Architects

Klaxons love our Where Chefs Eat app

James Righton from the band tells the NME that he takes the restaurant guide on tour with him

Klaxons' James Righton (right) selected our Where Chefs Eat app as his on-tour comfort