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Smart objects have won us over with the promise of convenience. But privacy heats up, what does the future of home look like? In the new Icon Minds, produced with Arper, Icon editor Priya Khanchandani sat down with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino to discuss how the way we live is changing.
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Icon Minds is back! For the second installment of our series, Priya Khanchandani caught up with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino at the Arper UK showroom to discuss the Future of the Home. Are the robots really taking over? Find out in episode 2 later this week!

Wave, the new chair by Javier Cuñado from ITEM Designworks for Actiu is a super- stackable, multi-purpose and functional chair program intended for collaborative and training spaces, which require versatile and easily storable equipment. Global launch in @thedesignjunction from 20-23/09/2018 in DOON STREET. First Floor. Booth F5 More information: https://www.actiu.com/en/company/actiu-de sign/

The shopfront mosque represents a new tradition in religious building. Shorn of all detail, with domes and minarets reduced to images on plastic signs, it is nevertheless profound, writes Eddie Blake with photography by Ben Ingham, in Icon online now.

Ahead of the opening of the V&A Dundee, architect Kengo Kuma spoke to Icon’s editor, Priya Khanchandani, about the role of nature, land and water in his work, the need for intimate space in cities, and how these themes found form in Scotland’s first design museum.
More: https://www.iconeye.com/…/13105-kengo-k uma-s-new-v-a-dundee…

Cooking in a new light
The kitchen. A place to tinker, eat, laugh and live. For many, cooking is a special moment, a bit like meditating at the stove to achieve some balance in the daily routine. Many of these moments need special lighting. In modern kitchens the lighting not only supports all of our actions, the operating controls of kitchen devices and cooktops work with LEDs. It not only looks good, it makes operation more intuitive. SCHOTT CERAN® – inventor of the origina...l black glass-ceramic cooktop – has now unveiled fascinating innovations that will put cooking in a new light – even smarter, more exciting and more beautiful.
Read more here: https://www.iconeye.com/…/13075-schott- cooking-in-a-new-lig…
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'I don’t want to be the face of anything, I just want to give other people the opportunity to understand it and raise collective awareness so that people start to work with it… It’s something that comes from the heart, from belief. This is the starting point of a movement,’ says designer Erez Nevi Pana @p_a_p_i_x_ . Find out more about his inspiring work on Icon online now.

If you are a London-based architect and were wondering why the commissions were a little thin on the ground, it is because there is less money out there and house prices are falling. Fewer people might ask you to come and redesign their ground floor and bedrooms, knock all the walls out here and put an extra basement room in there. Suddenly they start to worry about the equity. Suddenly it’s not play money anymore.
Danny Dorling weighs in on the London property crisis here:
https://www.iconeye.com/…/13096-danny-d orling-weighs-in-on-…

Icon 184: The London Issue. As a property crisis looms, how do the creative industries stack up? Plus: Danny Dorling on the future of housing, the architecture of Crossrail, and the rebirth of Kensington Olympia. Read more: https://www.iconeye.com/…/13094-icon-18 4-the-state-of-creat…

Women make up a mere 13 per cent of the industry’s workforce. But in the #MeToo era are things finally starting to change?
https://www.iconeye.com/…/…/13093-ukc w-women-in-construction

Surely there’s a better way of holding on to cherished memories than through the medium of tat? https://www.iconeye.com/…/13085-crimes- against-design-holid…

Benchmark founder Sean Sutcliffe talks to Icon about how the furniture company has evolved since its first appearance at 100% Design in the 1990s https://www.iconeye.com/…/13080-benchma rk-from-the-first-ed…

As the UK’s first new wooden roller coaster – Alton Tower's Wicker Man – in two decades takes its inaugural plunge, a new generation of thrill-seekers can enjoy the sculptural majesty – and slightly terrifying quirks – of the king of fairground rides. https://www.iconeye.com/…/13084-scream- classics-how-wooden-…

As the ubiquitous designer prepares to launch an exhibition looking back at the life of her mentor, Icon caught up with Patricia Urquiola in her Milan studio. https://www.iconeye.com/…/items-patrici a-urquiola-castiglio…

For his first building, the artist Olafur Eliasson has created a brick office-cum-castle for Denmark’s Lego dynasty. Rising out of a former industrial dock, it is a dizzying, dreamlike masterpiece. https://www.iconeye.com/…/13083-olafur- eliasson-vejle-lego-…

With its emphasis on open spaces, light and vernacular materials, Marina Tabassum’s work offers a riposte to the hyper-urbanisation of her native Dhaka – and has won her a growing band of international admirers. https://www.iconeye.com/…/13082-marina- tabassum-s-architect…