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30/10/2025

For Dubai Design Week 2025 (4–9 November), Isola Design Group returns to the region with new energy and an inspiring programme of exhibitions and activations. At the centre of this year’s presence is the unveiling of Isola Space, the platform’s first-ever permanent venue and a new landmark for the international design community.

Isola Space - a new hybrid venue by Elif Resitoglu - blends gallery, store, café, and event space into a hub of design collaboration. For Dubai Design Week, it debuts Icons of Tomorrow, showcasing global contemporary talent, alongside two other exhibitions. The exhibitions cement Isola’s bold arrival on Dubai’s creative stage.

Find out more via the article on our website or via Isola Design

24/07/2025

Taking over the Grade II-listed Shoreditch Town Hall, House of ICON is one of three curated exhibitions that make up Design London Shoreditch - a new multi-venue event experience covering architecture, design, culture and cutting-edge interiors. Launching as part of this year's London Design Festival the event celebrates creativity, innovation and East London’s dynamic spirit and will present a diverse mix of products for commercial, hospitality and residential design projects.

House of ICON invites visitors into a carefully curated interior landscape featuring a mix of established brands and emerging designers. Across a series of immersive design-led rooms, the exhibition presents new product launches and creative installations, spanning furniture, lighting, textiles, and objects for both home and hospitality spaces.

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Read the full article over on the ICON website to find out more information.

17/07/2025

&Tradition partners with Industrial Facility to launch new shelving system - Unveiled at this year’s 3DaysofDesign festival, Danish design house &tradition launched a new modular shelving system conceived by London studio Industrial Facility.

Seamlessly blending utility and form, the new Rombe modular shelving system by Industrial Facility for &Tradition is an impressive addition to the Danish design house’s vast compendium of furniture for the home. Being the first of its kind in typology for &Tradition, the system takes stimulus from industrial shelving systems while finding relevance within a domestic context.

Read the full article by Roddy Clarke over on our website.

Photography by &Tradition

03/07/2025

A HOME FOR TOMORROW - Ismael Medina Manzano’s transformative apartment project in San Sebastián defies traditional domestic boundaries, advocating for a more flexible and inclusive approach to modern living.

As the idea of home continues to shift, Spanish architect Ismael Medina Manzano’s Unplanned Domestic Prototype offers a provocative reimagining of what a living space can be. Located in San Sebastián, in an apartment built in 1966 and shaped by the rigid needs of post-war Spain, the project is a departure from conventional architecture, designed to anticipate the unpredictable rhythms of modern life. Rather than a home designed around a predefined idea of its inhabitants, the compact apartment allows for flexibility and an engaging dialogue between people and space.

As featured in . Photography by Hiperfocal ( )

26/06/2025

Design in a Real World exhibition at Villa Marie - Vorno’s spectacular Villa Marie provides a rich architectural backdrop and open-air gallery feel for the first edition by Vestigia and Italian-Polish designer Jonathan Bocca.

Just a few minutes from the historic centre of Lucca in the heart of Tuscany lies Villa Marie, a spectacular 18th-century residence, currently home to Design in a Real World, an eclectic exhibition meditating on Tuscan heritage and contemporary design.

Photography by Dario Borruto

19/06/2025

CRAFTING COMFORT - High in the Swiss Alps, a traditional wooden chair chalet hotel opens up to reveal a relaxing midcentury-influenced interior that mixes local craftmanship with subtle design touches from its owner’s home country of Wales.

The Brecon, the latest addition to this quaint ski resort, offers precisely the kind of hospitality and design-led experience the town was lacking. Founded by Wales native Grant Maunder, who has visited the area since his family took their first ski trip to the village 40 years ago, the hotel delivers quiet escapism, rather than the sort of loudness some parts of Switzerland are better known for.

As featured in . Photography by Michael Sinclair ( )

09/06/2025

Revolutionary architectural colour theory - In 1931, modernist architect Le Corbusier devised an architectural colour palette for his radical designs, later extended in 1959. Inspired by this, Malin Glemme, founder of Swedish company Layered, has launched a new rug collection, La Palette 1931/1959, which takes a deep dive into intense colour

Harmonious designs exude a certain visual prowess, and Malin Glemme has long been seduced by such balanced compositions. ‘It’s interesting when there are different elements that contrast with each other, such as femininity and masculinity, or warm and cool,’ says the founder and creative director of Swedish interior design brand Layered. ‘It’s always been a theme for me.’

As featured in . Photography by Mikael Lundblad ( )

02/06/2025

LOVE STORY - Drawing upon the life and philosophy of Jørn Utzon, the Ferm Living x Utzon – Can Lis Collection, realised in collaboration with the Utzon Center, pays homage to an architect whose work transcended conventional boundaries.

Beyond their enviable seaside settings, there is little in common between Sydney Opera House and Can Lis. The Opera House was conceived as a landmark, and wound up changing the image of an entire country. Can Lis was born of humbler intentions. Forced to resign from the Opera House project, Jørn Utzon sought respite in Mallorca, ultimately creating this series of sandstone pavilions where he could be secluded from the world, and at one with nature.

As featured in . Photography by Ferm Living

14/01/2025

Italian studio Favaretto&Partners designs playful dog bowl for Milanese brand United Pets. Titled Elizabeth, the dog bowl features a raised design that combines playful aesthetics with everyday functionality for medium and large dogs.

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08/01/2025

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

In 1928, an architectural competition was announced for the construction of a 184-bed tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio, a tiny town on Finland’s southwestern coast. Among the architects who heeded the call was the 30-year-old Alvar Aalto. He had recently completed the Alajärvi Municipal Hospital, an unassuming low-rise structure that drew on Italian Renaissance monasteries and vernacular Finnish architecture.

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07/01/2025

The right lighting can transform a space in an instant. This season, ICON team’s curated selection of lighting picks does exactly that, spotlighting pieces that are functional and elegant, from sculptural statement lamps to subtle pendants.

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06/01/2025

Launched earlier this year, BAINA’s new towel collection with Estudio Persona explores the interplay of light and shadow.

Drawing inspiration from the phenomena of ‘umbra’, the darkest part of a shadow cast by an object, the collection explores the interplay of light and shadow. ‘The natural tones were carefully selected by both teams,’ explains Jessie Young, co-founder of Estudio Persona.

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