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Maarten Baas: Baas is in Town

Milan is all about the show, says the Dutch designer. So at this year’s Salone he played the ringmaster at his own anarchic circus Every

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Maarten Baas for Swarovski and Laikingland

“I have this image of Swarovski being all bling-bling and glamorous,” says Maarten Baas, discussing Thought Cloud, his installation for the luxury brand’s Digital Crystal

Design

Icon Magazine

“Icon” is not a word to be used lightly on these pages but, on the occasion of our hundredth issue, somehow it seemed appropriate Icon

Design

Real and fake in China

From London, Macao is a long way to go to visit Venice. But it seemed like the right place to start a journey into the

Design

China’s World Expo

This amazing, costly architectural theme park is great fun, but does it have any lasting value? Julian Worral finds out One image is ubiquitous on

Architecture

Pearl Lam

words Anna Bates In one of her many houses, Pearl Lam, Shanghai-based design gallerist and billionaire heiress, is holding dinner. She’s flown in guests from

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Ugly

words William Wiles + Anna Bates It’s a word with nothing but negative associations: repellent, mutant, nasty. On the surface, it’s the enemy of design.

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Maarten Baas | icon 020 | February 2005

words Marcus Fairs The battered white Mercedes van turns off the highway and enters a small, shabby industrial estate outside the small southern Dutch town

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Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

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KitchenAid introduces Luminaire, the latest expression of its Design Series, where an enduring kitchen icon becomes a study in light, material and texture




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Atelier HA designs MELT’s new Panthéon restaurant in Paris

‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

Open House Festival opens hundreds of London buildings this September

The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York

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Design at Work New York Announces Opening of Visitor Registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

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

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

Inside Finarte’s joyful world of handwoven rugs and textiles

KitchenAid introduces Luminaire, the latest expression of its Design Series, where an enduring kitchen icon becomes a study in light, material and texture

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Design at Work New York Announces Opening of Visitor Registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

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

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

The Galerie Nationale du Design: a new landmark institution

Inside Finarte’s joyful world of handwoven rugs and textiles

KitchenAid introduces Luminaire, the latest expression of its Design Series, where an enduring kitchen icon becomes a study in light, material and texture