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Industry news and events - 3 April 2020

Industry news and events – 3 April 2020

Design
03.04.20
More than 60 years on the Eames Chair is still a classic

More than 60 years on the Eames Chair is still a classic

Design
03.04.20
The bodies that built New York

The bodies that built New York

Design
01.04.20
The supermarket makes consumption as easy as breathing

The supermarket makes consumption as easy as breathing

Design
30.03.20
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic

Design
30.03.20
Aerial view of Nagele. A thick ‘cloak’ of trees shields the parallel clusters of terraced houses from the expanse of the polder

Icon of the Month: Nagele, Flevoland

Design
25.03.20

Unsung hero: The Bic ballpoint pen

Design
24.03.20

Design in the time of Covid-19

Design
23.03.20

Electricity pylons: blots on the landscapes that they litter

Design
20.03.20

A short introduction to hempcrete

Design
17.03.20

An new exhibition explores the influence of Renaissance master Jan van Eyck on design

Design
12.03.20

ICON 199: The Countryside and the modern world

Design
09.03.20

A brief history of Comic Sans

Design
06.03.20

How the Olympic medals went from olive crowns to custom designed medallions

Design
04.03.20

The Eames design duo were more than just their classic chairs

Design
04.03.20

Art Deco: Understanding the colourful movement

Design
03.03.20

Lego: The building block toys that every child knows

Design
02.03.20

Art in the Age of Anxiety diagnoses our post-digital condition

Design
26.02.20

Collectible Fair in Brussels puts spotlight on unique contemporary design

Design
24.02.20

A closer look at Design Indaba’s legacy projects

Design
24.02.20

Design Indaba 2020 preview: The best is yet to come 

Design
23.02.20

Editor's choice

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

ICON profiles the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry

Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage




Architects

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

The Third Space in Udaipur, India, is a community space that mixes old and new

An island park in central Copenhagen showcases the plants of the world

Contemporary architecture in dialogue with nature

The Sámi hub Čoarvemátta is designed to withstand the harsh winters of north Norway

Architecture Against the Odds looks at difficult sites in a new exhibition at RIBA

Out of rubble: archigrest and topoScape reimagine Warsaw’s Uprising Mound as a living park and monument

A new exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center puts on show a bold response to rising waters


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Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

ICON profiles the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry

Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage

Introducing House of Icon at Design London Shoreditch

Roddy Clarke looks into Fritz Hansen’s new circular initiative and what the move means for its classic shell chairs


Videos

Light up your space with ICON’s top design picks for the new season

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

ICON profiles the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry

Cape Town Furniture Week returns for its third edition with a record number of visitors

Design House Stockholm presents Lisa Larson’s iconic Birds 1967 collection after being hidden from the public eye for decades

Gustav Winsth and Max Stjerna reimagine the Stockholm showroom of Swedish glassware brand Bobo

ICON’s Picks: The best new season design launches from Stockholm Design Week 2025

At Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025 maker and making come centre stage

LOEWE’s first major brand exhibition is a celebration of the house’s rich history and Spanish heritage