From a distance, the cinematic glamour of Los Angeles can eclipse the poverty and homelessness that is visible close up. In this context, LA practice Kadre Architects is using design as a street-level ...

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 ...

Designer Ian Logan and journalist Jonathan Glancey have released a new book, Logomotive: Railroad Graphics and the American Dream, as a visual tribute to the graphic design of railroads in ...

Minotticucine’s monolithic, monochromatic and mono-material sculptural objects bring unity to the spaces they occupy through material expression and the language of minimalism We find ourselves ...

Designed in the fifties, the Egg Chair is a design classic that has become one of the most recognisable and copied chairs of all time The original Egg was created by the Danish architect and designer ...

The Modulor Man is a recurring silhouette in Le Corbusier’s buildings and art. Will Wiles looks back at this phenomenal form In Le Corbusier’s buildings and art a recurrent silhouette appears: the ...

More often than not, when preparing to interview a significant cultural figure, one is sent a semi-apologetic email beforehand from a PR representative, asking that the questions be sent in advance ...

With pristine landscapes, snow covered wilderness and first-class design, in ICON 210 we journey from Helsinki to Turku and beyond to bring you the architecture and design highlights of Finland.

The revival of a design classic is often fuelled by nostalgia, but Copenhagen-based brand &Tradition looks beyond Denmark’s borders. Adding to its international community, the firm has invited five ...

When Gathering, the contemporary London- and Ibiza-based art gallery with a reputation for its ambitious programming, opened its newest location last month, it showcased more than the work of ...

Those attuned to the architecture and design industry will be all too aware of this; there is no shortage of effervescent eateries across the world, and, there certainly seems to be an upward trend of ...

Finland is Europe’s most forested country. And the forest plays a huge role in the Finnish imagination. Farmers used to pray to Tapio and Mielikki, god and goddess of the woods. Riddling goblins lived ...