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Icon editor Priya Khanchandani speaks to the exhibition’s curator and dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hashim Sarkis.

Grcic’s deep dive into MAXXI’s archive uncovers ‘fantastical architecture’, but fails to make an imaginative offering of its own.

Designed just after World War II, in a bombed out aeroplane factory in Italy, the Vespa has been a classic since the day it launched

Our selection of the best products from this year’s Salone del Mobile has a dual focus on sustainability and colour

It was the car that drove Italy’s economic miracle – but it never escaped the sense that its designers were having a bit of a laugh

In this month's issue we find out about exciting new bio materials, buildings that breathe and the artist giving light a physical form

Bruno Munari's dizzyingly versatile body of work has always been hard to categorise. But he had the rare ability to alchemise the ordinary into something luminous

If you can design one thing, you can design everything, wrote Massimo Vignelli. Venice-based duo Zaven are out to prove it. From product design to graphics to installations, they’re causing ripples far beyond the Grand Canal

An independent streak runs through Italy’s 20 regions, reflected in their mish-mash of local flags. Lombardy’s Studio Temp calls for a little visual unity

In the lead-up to Salone del Mobile in Milan, we take a peek at some of the city's sumptuous and often hidden away modernist entrance halls

Fiera Milano, Rho, Milan
4 — 9 April 2017

Over five frenetic years in the 1930s, Francisco Salamone cut a swath across Argentina’s rural east, bringing his own distinctive brand of futurist art deco to all manner of public buildings. While Salamone has been all but forgotten, his extraordinary legacy remains

The eternal city is resting on its laurels, writes Vilnius-based studio New! It’s time to give it a little more direction

The first Zaha Hadid project to be completed since her death is, like much of her best work, both alien and part of the landscape, write Stefano Boeri and Mario Coppola

Death, war, family feuds – the story behind the infamous, enticing hot tub has it all, says John Jervis

The lighting designer’s restaurants – one of which was today named as the world's best – are about darkness as much as illumination

The head of the eponymous mosaic brand explains how it has brought the ancient art into the digital age – with a little help from some star designers

In our latest issue, we look at Milan's Salone del Mobile, and ask whether the city's design industry is trying to reclaim its radical past

Reinvigorated by its alliance with Boffi, the venerable Milanese brand is venturing outside the Italian market