As the ubiquitous designer prepares to launch an exhibition looking back at the life of her mentor, Icon caught up with Patricia Urquiola in her Milan studio

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The Spanish architect and designer thinks that it's never been a more interesting time to be a furniture designer.

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Designers have found inspiration in everything from knitting needles to Japanese rock gardens for the pick of this year’s exhibits.

Not content with presenting 12 projects during the furniture fair, the Spanish designer also staged her first exhibition of limited-edition pieces on the theme of wastefulness.

Master and apprentice prepare to part ways.

M’Afrique is a furniture collection for the Italian brand Moroso, produced with the help of traditional craftsmen in Senegal.

The Milan-based designer has developed her first collection in porcelain for Rosenthal.

We’ve just got back from Milan furniture fair with a sack full of images to show you (and some very sore shoulders and feet to accompany). To kick things off, here’s some photos of Moroso’s M’Afrique installation in the Italian Superbrand’s showroom on Via Pontaccio.

The Milan-based designer talks about her first collection in porcelain for Rosenthal and her exhibition Purely Porcelain at the Design Museum in London.

Of all the events and exhibitions being held in Turin to mark its status as this year’s world design capital, the most interesting to date is Flexibility, a series of installations by the likes of Bertjan Pot, Patricia Urquiola and icon’s cover star this month, Fernando Brizio.

One adjective is rarely enough for Patrizia Moroso.

“She’s like a volcano,” someone said during the Milan furniture fair in April. “A hurricane,” according to another. Virtually unknown a couple of years ago, Patricia Urquiola stormed Milan this year.