Contents Issue 215 Spring/Summer 2024 What’s new and interesting in design and architecture around the globe Front Design Feature: Buster & Punch The brand's new collaboration with Staub elevates a British cultural icon P54 Feature: BMW i5 Flow How BMW Group's ongoing commitment to cultural initiatives and the arts led to the new BMW i5 Flow NOSTOKANA P66 Icon: Marimekko’s Unikko ▶ Finland’s most famous flower is celebrating its 60th birthday this year P76 Feature: GUSHKA The Ukrainian creative studio’s woollen items bring a new life to ancestral crafts P82 Feature: Rio Kobayashi The UK-based furniture designer and maker tells ICON how his Japanese and Austrian-Italian heritage influences his work P88 Feature: Sabine Marcelis The VitraHaus Loft gets a colourful makeover P92 Sustainability Column: Patrick McDowell The UK fashion designer talks of his life as a force for circularity in the industry P102 Feature: Dinesen The Danish timber specialist partners up with John Pawson for a new collection P104 ▶ Column: AlUla Rue Kothari visits a new design space in Saudi Arabia P110 Feature: Nordic fashion ICON profiles some of the female leaders revolutionising the Scandinavian fashion industry P114 I S 2 0 24 / L U K E WA L K E R C O U R T E S Y O F PA R : P H OTO G R A P H Y I M E K KO C L A U S T R O E L S G A A R D/ M A R Spring/Summer 2024 Architecture Feature: Rockwell Group David Rockwell on his studio's 40th anniversary and working at the intersection of architecture and theatre P124 Feature: Paris Olympics 100 years after it last hosted the Games, France’s capital is taking a new approach to its architectural legacy P136 ◀ Feature: California's Housing Crisis LA practice Kadre Architects is using design as a street-level tool for social change P146 Piero Lissoni: Environments A new book offers an insight into the studio's work P154 Icon: Villa Tugendhat Mies van der Rohe’s domestic masterpiece in Brno has survived everything the 20th century could throw at it P156 Q&A: Giles Tettey Nartey The designer and teacher talks craft and ritual P164 ◀ Feature: Brick from a Stone by Artefact A London studio finds new use for imperfect stone P166 Feature: Triennale Milano The 24th International Exhibition will explore the theme of inequalities P172 Obsession: Campante A Portuguese brand revives traditional craft P180 15