After recently presenting to you the Dover Street Market collaboration with Victorinox, we show you the Wallpaper collaboration with the Swiss Army Knife maker today. Overall they worked on three knifes, one designed by themselves and the other ones designed by British designer James Joyce and Jamie Cullen.

“Both known for their bold illustrative approaches, Cullen and Joyce seemed like ideal candidates for the role, selected by Wallpaper’s Art Director, Merion Pritchard to ‘create an elemental design that expressed the beauty of its craftsmanship and function in a visual and tactile way’.

The result speaks for itself. Encased in untreated wood, the Wallpaper* Swiss Army Knife features undulating contour lines etched into the surface. An accurate representation of the mountainous landscape of Ibach in Switzerland – where the Victorinox factory is based – the image is a tactile link to the home of the Swiss Army Knife itself – an intuitive addition which only goes to epitomise Wallpaper’s distinctive design approach.”

For the occasion a Wallpaper x Victorinox pop-up store has opened on New Bond Street in London. Limited to 100 pieces each, some of the knifes will also be sold through Wallpaper.com.

Many detailed images of all three knifes and the packaging follow after the jump.

Once again Wallpaper magazine worked with two guest editors on their October issue. For October 2009 Wallpaper magazine was edited by Karl Lagerfeld and Philippe Starck. We get a first look at the covers today and both creatives pushed the limits of magazine printing in interesting ways.

“Lagerfeld wanted a ‘peel and reveal’ sticker to coat his cover, showing his muse Baptiste Giabiconi fully clothed in a Dior Homme suit, which peels off to reveal the model in the same pose completely nude behind.

Starck’s cover is similarly ambitious and involved equal amounts of experimenting to get it right to his exacting specifications. A visual incarnation of the questions on evolution he asks his chosen panel, his cover involves three sheets of tracing paper, over a blank silver cover.”

More detailed views of the upcoming Wallpaper magazine covers by Karl Lagerfeld and Philippe Starck follow after the jump.

The Wallpaper Design Awards 2009 winners have been announced today. Among the judges you find Kanye West, Jean Nouvel, Ines de la Fressange, Marc Newson, Sir Ken Adam and Stefano Pilati. As you can imagine this panel made sure that only the very best was chosed in each category.

Browse the winners in categories fashion, furniture, hotels, buildings and more here.

Located in LA, and host to Nike Sportswear’s Cinema Tuesday, The Montalban is getting a fresh skin curtesy of local lad Geoff McFetridge. A massive undertaking, the work covers the majority of the buildings facade in signature mural style. Geoff is not entirely alone, Pottok Prints has provided the wallpaper.

Via WOOD WOOD @ arktip.

Fila is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. In recent months we have already seen the rise of the Fila vintage collection again, which was partly put on the map again also due to the Supreme NY collaboration.

For the occasion of their 35th anniversary they now got together with Wallpaper Magazine and with the Instituto Marangoni, which is a fashion school in London. Both worked on the classic vintage track jacket and on the vintage polo. The outcome is an interesting collection that takes Fila Heritage into the next chapter. The limited edition collection will be released soon. Via Openers.

Have a detailed look at the Fila x Wallpaper and Fila x Instituto Marangoni collaborations after the jump.

Today we came across an interesting collaboration between Fila and Wallpaper magazine. The Italian sportswear brand worked with Wallpaper on two polo shirts.
"The first, ‘Grandslam’, pays homage to Borg: the front of the ‘Settanta’ polo knit sports gold pinstripes and a solid block of glyphs, which, on closer inspection, reveal themselves to be the scores of each of Borg’s championship matches. On the reverse are his runner-up results. For the jacket, the right sleeve was wrapped with the winning scores in gold, and the left sleeve with the silver runner-up scores.
For the second design, ‘Richie Tenenbaum’ polo shirts, Wallpaper* was inspired by Luke Wilson’s character – a former tennis great in the film The Royal Tenenbaums – to create an understated cut. The blue and white striped design is given a serve of humour with a graphic pair of sunglasses printed on the chest pocket."
The limited edition polo shirts are now available at selected Fila retailers.
More detailed images after the jump.

Once again Bape worked with Wonderwall on their most recent store in Japan in Harajuku.
” For the Bape store, after discussions with Nigo, we decided to create a store that felt like a town within a building with an American diner flair. However, for the top floor, a sense of playfulness was added with a colonial style resort inspired space.”
Another impressive Bape store that you should not miss going to on your next Japan trip. Have a detailed look at the entire store after the jump.

Geoff Mcfetridge has started his own wallpaper company called Pottok. The wallpaper is hand-printed in California using water-based inks that aren’t treated with any chemical waterproofers, making them as eco-friendly as possible. For the moment there are 8 designs up with almost all of them having multiple colorways.
The new wallpaper brand is being carried by Walnut Wallpaper. On Thursday night they will be celebrating their new LA location as well as the start of Pottok. Via Kitsune Noir.
More information on the brand and the event here.

Here you see the latest drop from Estate LA, the Wallpaper series. Inspired by wallpapers, the caps come with classic all-over patterns in several colorways and the Estate LA logo embroidered on the front panels.
The caps have arrived at Fitted Hawaii and should appear soon also at other Estate LA retailers. Check out other colorways after the jump.

The Wallpaper October Issue is one of their most exciting in a while. For their new issue they worked together with designer Dieter Rams, Hedi Slimane and artist Jeff Koons. Besides the usual features in the magazine, there are three in-depth interviews with the creatives, Hedi Slimane posters and more. Also each creative designed a different cover, so you can actually collect them!