Wallpaper* magazine now available in Rands

Posted on Apr 21, 2006

Wallpaper* magazine, (the design, architecture and style bible used by anyone that wants to know what great taste and creative brilliance is) has once again featured a South African location. The May issue features Caffe e Vida, a South-African based portuguese-inspired chain of coffee shops… We assume they are referring to the popular shop in Kloof stre…
et in Cape Town that serves exceptional espresso’s and pastries… But there’s a whole bunch all over CT and even one in Greenside in Jozi… all will be revealed when we get our hands on this edition. But know that if your establishment gets into Wallpaper*, you’re made.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO VIDA E CAFFE WEBSITE – nice site!

AND STILL ON WALLPAPER* and their ‘vision’….Applause all round as Wallpaper gives the South African consumers a nod by putting the RAND pricing of the magazine on the front cover… obviously it’s in high demand on SA bookshelves! We love to see our Rand side-by-side with the heavyweights of world currency. You go RAND!

Thanks to Jaunted.com for pointing it out to us – click here for the full article!

The May issue of Wallpaper* is the most inspiring issue of the magazine in quite some time, with the mag’s Newspaper section leading the way.

Case in point: David Kaufman’s article on the proliferation of Israeli cafý chains, several of which are eyeing international markets. The accompanying sidebar pegs 12 coffee bar chains around the world, including Vienna’s iconic Aida, Jordan’s Blue Fig, California’s Peet’s, and Cape Town’s Vida e Caffý. The Cape Town chain gets the highest aesthetic praise.

Also covered in the section is the happy return of Ostalgie. Berlin’s former East German State Council building, circa 1964, has morphed into the European School of Management and Technology. (It’s hard to keep the excitement out of a place like that, we guess) The honors go to HG Merz, an architecture firm focusing on museums and renovations, with offices in Stuttgart and Berlin.

Also noteworthy in the May issue: Macau travel, Portuguese canned fish packaging, Paris’ Stalingrad ‘hood, and new Swedish furniture designers. Note that South Africa joins the Wallpaper pricing elite, with the price of the magazine now listed in rand. We know just the coffee shop for reading the mag.

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May 2005
PONTE is a popular topic in architectural circles and is definitely hot property if it’s featured in the latest Wallpaper* magazine – a true honour for any building – particularly a neglected and forgotten about one…

We don’t have access to the article but if anyone that does could fill us in on what it says it would be highly appreciated!

We love PONTE and have featured a couple of articles on it… but today we send you to a very cool link on PONTE – click here – artist Stephen Hobbes attached a camera to a parachute and sent it flying down all 54 floors to capture the sheer fall of this icon. There’s a clip that you can download and watch!

Thanks to archidose blog for the tips. Here’s another great site that tells you all about Ponte’s history as well as all our breath-taking skytouchers – click here.