ICON 072 | June 2009 | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE

ICON 072 | June 2009

	TAF Feature "We are absolutely crap decorators,"admits  Mattias Ståhlbom, one half of the interior architect and furniture  designer TAF.

	Valerio Olgiati Feature "This is not minimalism," declares Valerio Olgiati with a defiant stare, describing two white concrete cubes punctured with symmetrical windows.

	Leisure Plan Feature Leisure Plan is based in a converted chapel in Stansted Mountfitchet, just four miles from Stansted Airport (and 35 minutes from London Liverpool Street).

	Urban Farming Feature Something unbelievable has happened: farming has become fashionable. But only if you're doing it in the middle of a city.

	Dan Graham And Eyal Weizman Conversation Conversation between artist Dan Graham and architect Eyal Weizman, London, 31 March 2009

	The Militant Modernism Review It's good to see modernism wrestled out of the jaws of the middle classes and the heritage industry, says William Wiles.

	The Jazz Century Review Once seen as part of pop music, jazz grew into its own cultural force and influenced everything along the way, writes Francesca Gavin.

	Architecture Depends Review Architects need to be less autonomous and engage with the everyday, argues Jeremy Till, but this could well be a case of merry myth-making, says Charles Holland.

	Jade Goody's Funeral Review The pageantry surrounding the funeral of a reality television star laid bare the mechanisms of our manufactured social realm, says Sam Jacob.

	Non-Places Review Marc Augé's study of hotels, malls and airports, now in a new edition, has become more relevant in a world of growing inequality, says Owen Hatherley.

	Google Street View UK Review Google marches towards its destiny of total information awareness, bringing the all-seeing eye of Street View to 25 UK cities.

	Myto Chair New "What do you do after that," says Konstantin Grcic, referring to his hugely successful Myto chair, which launched at the Milan furniture fair last year.

	PSLab New "Everyone wants cucumber without the pesticide," says Dimitri Saddi, one of eighty members of Beirut-based industrial lighting design studio PSLab.

	The Brandhorst Museum New The BrandHorst Museum in Munich is like a large, abstract painting from the outside.

	Front New This sofa is an illusion. It looks like a pile of cushions.

	Jugaad Pavilion New 692 discarded oil cans make up the Jugaad pavilion in Delhi by artist Sanjeev Shankar.

	Peter Marigold New Peter Marigold's Split Boxes have been turned into an asymmetrical set of shelves by SCP, previewed at iSaloni.

	Simon Hasan New Boiled and stretched leather was used to make London-based designer Simon Hasan's series of five luxury vases for Sotheby's auction house.

	Studio Glithero New "We're not super designers," says Sarah van Gameren of London-based Studio Glithero. "We don't make shapes."

	Prada Transformer New You can roll the Prada Transformer like a four-sided die, and you'll get a different building every time.

	Nendo New Blowing was the process Japanese design studio Nendo used to make its series of mushroom-like polyester lamps.

	Avila's Exhibition and Convention Centre New An outcrop of granite slabs lies in a former cattle market square, just outside the medieval city walls of Ávila.

	The Ice Cream Van Icon of the month Is there is a more absurdly wonderful piece of vehicle design than the ice cream van?

	Edwin Heathcote Front Modern architecture gets shot to hell in The International - is it a victim of anger at corporations and bankers?