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Harriet Allure Ama candle white on red background

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

The Swedish designed candles were born of a shared journey between two friends, Freddy and Alex. Born and raised in Germany, with roots in Ghana, Harriet Allure's candles use scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Design
14.10.24
Piero Lissoni: Environments book by Rizzoli

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

With offices in Milan and New York, Lissoni & Partners has a 30-year history in developing projects in the fields of architecture and design. Now, a new book edited by Stefano Casciani offers a complete view of the studio's decades of groundbreaking work

Architecture
11.10.24

Conscious creativity, community and craft: Six highlights from this year’s London Design Festival

Back for its 22nd edition, London Design Festival once again brought the design industry together with a strong community spirit radiating from some of the highlights that caught our eye.

Design
09.10.24

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Situated a two-hour drive west of Helsinki, the former tuberculosis sanatorium takes a humanistic approach to modern architecture

Architecture
08.10.24

Design

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Conscious creativity, community and craft: Six highlights from this year’s London Design Festival

Christophe Donot discusses his unconventional approach to ceramics and the personal intention behind his work

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

From Helsinki with joy: How Finland’s visionary design and human-centred values are powering a global reuse revolution

Bang & Olufsen redefines the future of wearable technology with its new Beoplay H100 headphones

Oliver Murphy reveals the inspiration and vision behind his new creative venture SLOWE Living

ICON’s guide to navigating London Design Festival

Matthew Hyndman’s debut show Upended subverts cliched tropes of Scottish landscape photography






Architecture

Piero Lissoni: Environments book by Rizzoli

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

With offices in Milan and New York, Lissoni & Partners has a 30-year history in developing projects in the fields of architecture and design. Now, a new book edited by Stefano Casciani offers a complete view of the studio's decades of groundbreaking work

Architecture
11.10.24

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Situated a two-hour drive west of Helsinki, the former tuberculosis sanatorium takes a humanistic approach to modern architecture

Architecture
08.10.24

Architecture Icon: How the Noguchi Musuem advances the appreciation of its founder’s art and legacy

The Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York, chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, was the first museum in the United States designed by a living artist to show their own work, and reflects the diversity of his sculptural approach

Architecture
23.09.24

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

The spectacle of engraved stone: between moving geometries and architectural codes

Conscious creativity, community and craft: Six highlights from this year’s London Design Festival

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Christophe Donot discusses his unconventional approach to ceramics and the personal intention behind his work

Portugal showcase the ultimate trends in interior design at Decorex 2024

Discover the Morris & Co. collection and inspire your home with British design heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches


Design

Harriet Allure Ama candle white on red background

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

The Swedish designed candles were born of a shared journey between two friends, Freddy and Alex. Born and raised in Germany, with roots in Ghana, Harriet Allure's candles use scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

Design
14.10.24
Lithos Design

The spectacle of engraved stone: between moving geometries and architectural codes

Origins, history, transformation. The expressive power of one of humanity's oldest materials is no secret to Lithos Design.

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10.10.24

Conscious creativity, community and craft: Six highlights from this year’s London Design Festival

Back for its 22nd edition, London Design Festival once again brought the design industry together with a strong community spirit radiating from some of the highlights that caught our eye.

Design
09.10.24

Harriet Allure uses scent to invoke a sense of nostalgia and connection to heritage

A new book by Stefano Casciani offers an insight into Piero Lissoni’s work

The spectacle of engraved stone: between moving geometries and architectural codes

Conscious creativity, community and craft: Six highlights from this year’s London Design Festival

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

Christophe Donot discusses his unconventional approach to ceramics and the personal intention behind his work

Portugal showcase the ultimate trends in interior design at Decorex 2024

Discover the Morris & Co. collection and inspire your home with British design heritage

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches


Opinion

How Minus Furniture is exploring a net zero business model

Can furniture really be carbon negative? Minus Furniture is a research-driven design studio seeking to explore the reality of a net zero and below zero business model. Roddy Clarke investigates

Design
16.01.24

Milo Mcloughlin-Greening of Batch.Works on how we must change patterns of manufacturing

To truly bring about change we must foster entirely new ideas about how products are manufactured and consumed, writes Milo Mcloughlin-Greening of Batch.Works

Design
09.01.24

Speakers at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial took inspiration from the past in redefining strategies of renewal and sustainability for Africa

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial saw a new focus on redefining scarcity and abundance in Africa, writes our new columnist Rue Kothari

Architecture
20.12.23

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