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Posts tagged 'Furniture'

The World of Charles and Ray Eames

This ambitious exhibition at the Barbican in London reminds us that the celebrated American designers were making films to shed light on their thinking process

Opinion

Paul Cocksedge: “Freeze is about wanting to touch things, and celebrate materials”

The British designer froze metal to –346 degrees while living in a Liverpool factory to produce a collection of tactile, weighty furniture, on display in

Opinion

The miniature chair

The modernist dream has gone badly awry when the only way to make good design “affordable” is to render it entirely pointless, says John Jervis

Design

Peter Griffith

The Microsoft designer started out creating furniture, and is drawn to the space where making overlaps with technology. He told us about his five favourite

Opinion

EOOS at the MAK Design Lab

A playful exhibition of work by the Viennese design firm echoes the ethos of the museum’s permanent display – that design comes alive through its

Opinion

David Adjaye and Moroso

Just weeks before David Adjaye’s Double Zero chair was unveiled at Milan Furniture Fair, Icon joined the architect at Moroso’s actory in Udine as he

Design

David Adjaye and Moroso

In Milan next week, the architect is launching Double Zero, a luxurious dining chair that will be the forerunner to a whole series. For our

Design

Maria Jeglinska

Often inspired by line drawings, the French-born designer’s works have established her as a leading light of Warsaw’s emerging design scene In terms of their

Design

Barber Osgerby’s Bodleian Libraries chair

An elegant, contemporary response to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s recently renovated New Bodleian Library – which opens tomorrow (21 March)– Barber Osgerby’s bent-oak and leather

Design

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

There’s something nasty in the flatpack furniture store … Will Wiles enjoys a ghost story with a truly sinister setting Orsk is “the all-American furniture

Opinion

Editor's choice

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future




Architects

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO


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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition



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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future