Margaret Howell Curates 130 Years of The Architectural Review

There are few British designers better suited to interpreting the visual language of architecture publishing than Margaret Howell. To mark the 130th anniversary of The Architectural Review, the designer has collaborated with the title on a tightly edited collection of limited-edition fine-art cover prints, drawn from the magazine’s formidable archive.

The selection feels entirely in step with Howell’s long-standing design vocabulary: functional, restrained and deeply informed by materiality. Rather than treating the archive as nostalgia, the project reframes these covers as objects of enduring graphic relevance — the kind of imagery that sits as comfortably beside a teak sideboard and a stack of Japanese ceramics as it does in an architect’s studio.

Each giclée print is produced in a limited edition of 200, printed to order on matte natural white 350gsm Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper. Details matter here. Every print includes a debossed AR monogram and handwritten edition numbering, positioning the series somewhere between collectible publishing artefact and gallery-grade design object.

The collaboration launches with an event at the Margaret Howell Wigmore Street store on 14 May, bringing together a typically discerning crowd of contributors and collaborators, including Hélène Binet and Níall McLaughlin. The prints will remain on display in-store throughout the collaboration and will be available to order via both The Architectural Review and Margaret Howell until 14 June 2026.

For men interested in the overlap between fashion, interiors and intelligent collecting, it is a reminder that good taste rarely announces itself loudly.