Read the April 2021 Global Interiors Issue of Wallpaper
Read the April 2021 Global Interiors Issue of Wallpaper
Welcome to our annual Global Interiors issue. Good design can enable, inspire and elevate our lives. This has been magnified over the last year, as circumstances have required us to stay at home, with more opportunity than ever to contemplate the stuff that surrounds us. Marking a year since the pandemic turned the world upside down, this Global Interiors issue salutes the design pieces that have brightened our days, and the luminous talents behind them.
We’ve broadened the scope of our headline interiors story, featuring designs from six continents, rather than focusing on six specific countries as we did in previous years. Our head of interiors Olly Mason worked with Berlin design studio Form & Rausch to create a visual feast, setting standout furniture pieces against escapist backdrops that are modern while rooted in geographical context.
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The epic trading battle over GameStop has been a boon to AMC Theatres, spurred new film deals and impressed Big Short director Adam McKay: It’s hard not to love what that Reddit group is doing.
It has all the hallmarks of a Hollywood revenge thriller. A group of regular Joe day traders coordinates to upend the stock market through chats on Reddit and TikTok, boost the share price of companies struggling amid the pandemic and cause hedge funds to lose billions largely through an investment site aptly named Robinhood.
That’s what happened in late January when some members of a Reddit forum called r/wallstreetbets noticed that hedge funds had taken short positions on GameStop, AMC Entertainment and other companies. In other words, the funds had borrowed shares of stock and then sold them, expecting the price per share to fall. The expectation was to buy back the shares at a cheaper price, return them to the lender and pocket t