Wallpaper, issue 22, October 1999. 23,2 x 30 cm, 394 pages, full-color. Horns of Plenty. Vienna. Tyrol style. Rügen. Stefan Irion. Danny Rolph.
'Wallpaper, the stuff that surrounds you.' Looking back at Tyler Brûlé's baby, you can only agree that he made this gorgeous magazine for all the right reasons: because we indulge in glossy ads, great photography, models with chiseled bone structures, hot products and full-blown design. Wallpaper makes looking back at the 1990s somewhat like a semiotic expedition. In hindsight, the stylistic confusion that took hold of the West, driven by globalism, now looks nicely sorted and spelled out, crystalizing in great ads by Gucci, Armani, Joop!, Boss, Valentino, Kenzo, Sisley. They are all there.
Apart from every individual advertisement, the 20 page feature on Tyrol style alone is a good reason to own this issue.
Architecture:
- Swedish embassy in Berlin
- West-Coast aesthetic in LA and Palm Springs by Marmol and Radziner
- Country living in Bavaria
- Bethlehem
- KdF Seebad Prora at Rügen
A fine copy.