SOPHIE LOVELL

Contributing Editor, Berlin/germany, 2000–present

Hmm, special memories. Having tea in a Richard Neutra house in Germany’s Taunus mountains (W*88, below), the owner telling me how Neutra studied the phases of the moon and the topography to take into account how moonlight would enter the house. Exploring Philip Rosenthal’s baroque mansion/shag pad in Bavaria (W*81), with secret doors and an underground pool.

Retrospectively, so much of it was a bubble of its time: so white, so male, so Eurocentric, so decadent… But hey, that was the noughties and the 2010s, and Wallpaper* has been an absolute style beacon all the way through. I’m so happy you are setting your mark with a powerfully inclusive and regenerative path.