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The design brand has been celebrating the artistry of traditional woollen crafts for the last eight years, bringing a unique contemporary aesthetic to age-old techniques. Roddy Clarke meets the studio’s founders and explores the mindful and conscious creativity that sets the brand apart. Design. 01.11.24.
Form follows function: Modernism’s guiding principles
Mar 31, 2020 · The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe. Modernist architecture has two chief guiding principles: form follows function and truth to materials. Functionalism, a term coined by American architect Louis Sullivan, stated that the building’s purpose was paramount to the design, and took precedence over beauty. Truth to materials was a ...
Baroque, nomadic and flamboyant: the ice cream van
Aug 5, 2009 · Professor Earnshaw reveals that the speakers on the van are typically pointed down at the road in order to disperse the sound. In the evolution of ice cream van design, the 1950s and 60s now seem a particularly fertile period. The examples from this era are by far the most baroque. Bedford vans, Transits, Ford Anglias and even the Mini Clubman ...
Modulor Man by Le Corbusier - ICON Magazine
Jun 23, 2009 · 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 Modulor Man. It’s a stylised human figure, standing proudly and square-shouldered, sometimes with one arm raised, the mascot of Le Corbusier’s system for re …
From the Archive: A short history of the Sony Walkman
Nov 15, 2022 · The prototype was based on a tape recorder that had been designed for journalists in 1977. The original Walkman was made of aluminium and the metal case was coloured blue and silver. Later editions moved over to black plastic casing. When it launched it sold for around $150, and after a slow first month of sales the Walkman became one of the ...
10 buildings by Norman Foster - ICON Magazine
Mar 4, 2020 · The Bloomberg Building is impressive for it’s innovation and holistic approach to design. For example, rainwater and grey water from basins and showers is used to flush the toilets. The Bloomberg Building was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018. Millau Viaduct by Foster + Partners. Photo by Nigel Young.
The Barcelona Chair: A modernist classic - ICON Magazine
Mar 30, 2020 · The Barcelona Chair is one of the most recognisable and iconic designs of the last century. Still frequently used in interiors, the chair epitomises elegance and embodies its creator Mies van der Rohe’s famous maxim “less is more”. This distinctive chair was designed by modernist titan Mies in 1929 in collaboration with fellow German ...
From the Archive: A short history of the iconic Egg Chair by Arne ...
Mar 29, 2024 · 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 Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the SAS Royal Hotel in downtown Copenhagen. Jacobsen was commissioned to design every element of the building, from the ...
Who designed London’s “wobbly” Millennium Bridge?
Jan 25, 2020 · Sir Anthony Alfred Caro was an abstract, modernist sculptor who often worked with metals from discarded industrial objects. He was celebrated as one of the greatest British sculptors of his generation, and spent much of the 1990s developing what he called “sculpitecture”. The bridge collaboration with Foster combined Caro’s interest in ...
One World Trade Center: A fortress enveloped in glass
Mar 23, 2020 · The concept for One World Trade Center underwent several revisions. After a controversial redesign by Childs, the design was further revised in 2005 when the New York Police Department expressed concerns over the safety of the glass lobby. Their initila suggestion featured a protective concrete wall, that was criticised for looking too military.