Finnish design goes beyond aesthetics. Discover how Helsinki is creating a reuse movement that puts people and the planet ...

“People are very sensitive when it come to leather,” explains Simone Farresin of design duo Studio FormaFantasma: “They know where it comes from but they don’t want that to be apparent.” Farresin and ...

ICON remains in print, but we now also publish issues digitally. Each edition is published online in delayed releases following print, so that we can keep the magazine alive and prioritise subscribers ...

Architecture Icon: Mies van der Rohe’s domestic masterpiece in Brno has survived everything the 20th century could throw at it Nearly a century after its construction – including a time when its ...

In 1964, US photographer Tony Vaccaro travelled to Finland to snap Finnish brand Marimekko’s textiles for Life magazine. His arresting images include an aerial shot of a gigantic parasol emblazoned ...

Behind an unassuming entrance, the Aalto House nestles into the hillside of Riihitie in Helsinki’s leafy Munkkiniemi neighbourhood. From the quiet residential street it might take visitors to Aino and ...

In my 1980s suburban childhood, playing in public space was limited to the local park or recreation ground. The common British playground – rusty or graffiti-covered variations on a roundabout, ...

BIG’s Serpentine Pavilion, which stacks numerous repeating units, is characteristic of the firm’s designs. Image: George Rex / Creative Commons. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels heads BLOX by OMA on the ...

Alfred Newall discusses his craft and finding the balance between heritage and modernity ...

The listed modernist estate in Geneva underwent an 11-year ‘high-tech’ renovation that prioritises longevity and thermal performance Geneva-based Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés has completed the ...

&Tradition’s hybrid art-design exhibition aims to highlight the Copenhagen-based brand’s global perspective, inviting five designers and design studios from across the globe to explore the Couldn’t ...