EL PAÍS launches ICON DESIGN, a design, architecture and interiors magazine from ICON

EL PAÍS launches this Saturday, April 29, ICON DESIGN, a new decoration, architecture and interior design publication from ICON magazine. This new publication seeks to bring the world of interiors to an audience as wide as that of EL PAÍS, explore what’s going on in the design world today and profile its leading lights, whether by celebrating fresh, young talent or by paying tributing to the masters.
 
Armani takes center stage in the first issue. The 86-year-old creator, founder and leader of a company that earns some 3,000 million euros per year, opens the doors of his home to the magazine: a Milanese palazzo decorated with the bold simplicity that characterizes his fashion, perfumes and even furniture. The designer has built a world-famous luxury empire, but his own home is quietly sumptuous. Lucas Arraut, editor of ICON DESIGN, joins the owner at home and learns more about this radical esthetic side to the designer.
 
Miguel Milá revolutionized the sixties with his lamps TMM and TMC, pure simplicity and easy to use – and he continues to bring his unwavering pragmatism to the design world today. "I worry about the lack of common sense," he tells Begoña Gómez Urzaiz in this issue. "In hotels, the rooms are designed to be innovative rather than to be comfortable, and this is horrible. I prefer regular light switches – you already know how they work – to home automation systems. The sink is a weird kind of vessel, splashing water everywhere... Why do they feel this need to impress me?”
 
Patricia Urquiola agrees. This Oviedo-born designer, based in Milan, is perhaps the world's most important designer. She creates pieces for top furniture manufacturers and is also creative director at Cassina, one of the oldest Italian furniture brands. Urquiola guides Carlos Primo around the factory.
 
In just over a decade, Lázaro Rosa-Violán has become something of a superpower in the world of interiors. Few successful bars, hotels or restaurants can resist her trademark blend of vintage patina and contemporary dazzle, or tailormade pieces. She also showcases her work in ICON DESIGN.

All this and so much more in the first issue of ICON DESIGN: like the forty-year career of Pascua Ortega, the decorator who gave Madrid a makeover for the royal wedding of the Prince and Princess of Asturias; Villa Cavrois, the Art Deco palace that Robert Mallet-Stevens designed in 1932 and whose restoration work has cost 23 million euros; plus a report on the relationship between architectural horrors and political horrors...

The magazine will be available throughout the month at newsstands and there will be an interactive edition available at Apple Store, Google Play and Kiosco y +. ICON DESIGN will be published twice a year. The second issue will go on sale nationwide on September 30.