EMMA O’KELLY

On the team since 1997 with roles including: Contributing Editor, Intelligence 1998–2000 House Editor, 2006–2007 Contributing Editor, 2020–present

I joined the team as News Editor in issue four, when we were all young and shooting from the hip. At our first party at Salone del Mobile in 1998, David Byrne came over and said he loved the magazine. We came at things sideways, and readers liked it. ‘That’s very Wallpaper*’ soon became a way to describe something that was cool. High points for me? Exploring forgotten brutalist architecture in Lagos (W*21); shooting behind the scenes at the Vatican (W*223); and pacing Jardins in search of São Paulo’s beating heart (W*26).