Matteo Thun & Partners turn lava stone and glass into wall covering for Florim

The duo's collection, entitled SensiEtna, is mostly composed of recycled and reused lava slab offcuts, and produced in collaboration with Nerosicilia

Julie Richoz creates a free design toolkit in partnership with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent

Bringing a welcome accessibility to the world of design, Swiss-French designer Julie Richoz has collaborated with A Vibe Called Tech and WePresent to create an open-source design toolkit allowing users to create a customisable mirror for themselves

Italian knitwear brand Artknit Studios brings its savoir-faire to London

Recently opening its first UK-based retail space, Italian fashion brand Artknit Studios continues to champion Italian artisanal craft. Roddy Clarke speaks to the brand’s founder, Alessandro Lovisetto.

The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska on copper mining, meditation and working with clay

For Polish designer Alicja Patanowska, her latest projects explore how design can encourage us to think about what we buy, what we discard and how we connect to the things we keep

Gubi reimagines Pierre Paulin’s 1960s F300 Lounge Chair with sustainable materials for a new era

More than half a century after its debut, Pierre Paulin’s F300 Lounge Chair has been reissued by GUBI, reimagined for today with sustainable materials and a Bauhaus-inspired campaign – and the sculptural design still feels strikingly fresh

Lucas Zito explores the evolving design capabilities of 3D printing

Based in Paris, designer Lucas Zito has gone from utilising 3D printing as a prototyping method to a core function of his manufacturing processes. He discusses his creative journey with Roddy Clarke

Meet MVE-Collection: The design studio transforming construction waste into statement furniture and objects

Set up by French architect Vincent Eschalier and designer Mattéo Lecuru in 2023, MVE-Collection is a design studio creating furniture from waste raw materials sourced from construction sites across France.

Harriet Allure’s Zenzi candle weaves together Swedish minimalism and Ghanaian heritage

Dubai Design Week 2025: Isola launches its new Isola Space and unveils three curated exhibitions

LAYER designs a modular foam-free camping mattress system for sleep start-up MAZZU

Seeking to address the camping sector’s global waste issue, Chinese sleep brand MAZZU has called on design studio LAYER to create a modular foam-free camping mattress system

How Poland’s economic boom is fuelling a design revolution

Poland is a country that's growing in strength both economically and militarily. Increasingly, the nation's new-found confidence can be discovered in its burgeoning design scene

Henry Holland Studio unveils its inaugural furniture collection

As part of Mount Street Arts Festival, Henry Holland Studio has debuted its first foray into the world of furniture, building on its popular hand-built ceramic collections

Flos fuses craft and technology in its reissue of the 1963 Seki-Han Floor Lamp by Tobia Scarpa

Flos has unveiled a reissue of the Seki-Han floor lamp, originally designed for the Italian lighting manufacturer by Tobia Scarpa in 1963, with updated features that enhance its functionality

Béton Brut unveiled the first major retrospective of iron-artist Salvino Marsura at London Design Festival

As part of London Design Festival, East London gallery Béton Brut presented ‘Unbound’, the first dedicated retrospective exhibition of the work of Salvino Marsura, the Italian metalworker and artist.

Aethos opens its first UK venue in the heart of Shoreditch

Boutique hotel and private members club Aethos is opening its doors for the first time in the UK, taking residence within the heart of Shoreditch.

How Lake Como Design Festival became the quiet leader of a slow, local design revolution

The seventh edition, held under the theme Fragments, took place earlier this month and proved to be one of the strongest to date. ICON travelled to Como to find out how this city is rewriting the rules of the design fair

Relaunch: From multimodal search to real-time product data, CEO Martin Zelger tells ICON how Architonic is changing from platform to tool

Aesop opens temporary exhibition documenting its considered approach to store design

With stores located in countries all over the world, Aesop’s signature approach to retail design results in spaces that are uniquely individual and grounded through local narratives. For London Design Festival, it is offering visitors an insight into the creative process behind each location.

Lee Broom invites visitors into a unique showcase of his ground-breaking work from the past year

For London Design Festival 2025, Lee Broom invites visitors into a unique showcase of his ground-breaking work from the past year. Set across the three store fronts which form the Shoreditch flagship showroom, the three specially curated spaces will bring together all of Broom’s 2025 launches and collaborations under one roof

La Junqueira to open a second residency with additional co-living spaces for intergenerational connection

After launching eight years ago in Lisbon, art residency La Junqueira is opening its second location in Lille in November with founder Stéphane Mulliez amplifying the project’s social impact even further through the inclusion of an intergenerational co-living space.

Lee Broom unveils his first Landmark commission for London Design Festival

With London Design Festival returning to the capital next month, British designer Lee Broom has announced his first Landmark commission which will be on display outside the Royal Festival Hall