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

New contemporary craft fair comes to Scotland this autumn

HARVEST is a new contemporary craft fair celebrating regional talent and will take place in Edinburgh in October

Forestalgia launches its first multi-sensory furniture concept

London-based design studio, Forestalgia, has launched Modular 001, an integrated table and chair design that houses an internal audio system

Anglepoise celebrates 90 years of its Original 1227 Desk Lamp with a limited-edition iteration

To mark the 90th anniversary of its Original 1227 Desk Lamp, Anglepoise is releasing a unique limited-edition of the lamp this September.

Meet YOUTH: The interior design studio seeking to enhance connection through a human-centred approach

Based in Manchester, YOUTH is an award-winning design studio driven by a strong desire to create spaces that connect people to place, purpose and each other.

Meet the creative duo behind Deya – the Turkish homewares brand merging traditional craft and contemporary design

Founded in 2023 by Defne Arıkoğlu and Yasmin Karamolla, Deya is an exciting lifestyle brand based between Istanbul and London. Roddy Clarke unearths the passion behind the brand that is turning heads around the globe 

House of ICON brings design diversity to Shoreditch Town Hall

Step into the House of ICON, a new standout exhibition taking place 16-18 September as part of Design London Shoreditch during London Design Festival