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STAR SIGNS • We pay homage to seminal American graphics

The Wallpaper* 400 • Welcome to our annual Wallpaper* US400. Now in its fourth edition, this list serves as a snapshot of the individuals and practices shaping the conversation surrounding design, art, architecture, fashion, technology and more. This year’s reveal coincides with the USA’s 250th anniversary, a milestone that commemorates the country’s independence. We couldn’t think of a better group with which to celebrate that bold, and uniquely American, spirit

FROM A TO B TO AI • Early to embrace the automobile, LA is reckoning with a new era in transportation

AMERICAN DREAMS • Artists and designers the world over continue to choose to make the US their home. As the latest newcomers in this ‘nation of immigrants’ join a crowd of inspiring locals with dual heritage, their varied experiences help shape creative America. To celebrate the country’s role as a meeting point of creative minds, we look at the plurality of voices contributing to its enduring crucible of culture and dynamism. We speak to five studios – whose founders (all Wallpaper* US400 honorees) have roots in Poland, Vietnam, India, South Korea and China, but who have made the US their creative base – about how their heritage influences their output.

NAKED AMBITION • A San Francisco-based psychotherapist’s art collection presents a consequential chronicle of queer life across two centuries

DESERT BLOOM • For jewellery designer Anna Sheffield, location and landscape shape her understanding of materials, creating space for different ways for making, thinking and being

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SPELL BOUND • Architect David Rockwell’s next trick is to conjure up an enchanting new venue for the Chicago magic scene

UNIFORM APPROACH • Fashion designer Thom Browne’s singular aesthetic reimagines American preppy classics for the more avant-garde, suit-wearing aficionado

HOO’S HOME • Nicole Hollis’ clarifying renovation of a Mickey Muennig house on California’s Monterey Peninsula creates a playful weekend retreat

LONE HERO • Artist Danielle Mckinney champions the solitude of the Black female subject, cinematically capturing private moments in paint

CAMERA ANGLES • The offices of a boundary-pushing LA film production company reference old Hollywood and cinematic storytelling through a design lens

IDEAL WORLD • Brooklyn-based artist Olalekan Jeyifous reimagines social, cultural and environmental realities to create speculative neighbourhoods with a promising future

MEMORIAL GARDEN • The latest lighting collection from Blue Green Works, sculpted in Murano glass, is an emotional ode to heartbreak, loss and vulnerability

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HOWLING SUCCESS • Playful, bold and unabashedly silly, this zoomorphic guest house in New Mexico goes beyond artist Johnny DeFeo’s wildest dreams

RIPPLE EFFECTS • As writer and curator Lou Stoppard takes a deep dive into the swimming pool for a new show that explores its role as a space for aesthetic, social and political reflection, we focus on its place in the American imagination

SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE • The Snøhetta-designed Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, in the North Dakota...