december 2011

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Cover image: andrew meredith

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Leader Scene iary rethink FIVE Most Wanted Icon of the Month london design festival

FRONT In the Arctic with Zumthor Zaha takes the Stirling Prize (again) Events to see this month Bunch delivers new packaging for parcels Jonathan Levien’s favourite things The trusty Zippo lighter

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NEW MAD’s curvy museum in Inner Mongolia, Herzog & de Meuron’s office stack in Basel, Odile Decq’s restaurant for the Palais Garnier in Paris and Heatherwick’s interior for a rural English abbey Our highlights from the festival with John Pawson, Benjamin Hubert, a cashless auction and a flatpack boat

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FEATURES Zumthor and artist Louise Bourgeois’ dark memorial to the days of witch burning in remote Norway 50,000 arsonists visit the scorching Nevada desert The design duo on the Olympic torch, perfectionism and design as art Belfast’s sectarian bonfires REVIEW The OMA Barbican exhibition that’s not a retrospective, Gary Hustwit’s Urbanized, Beijing Design Week and Postmodernism at the V&A

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PRODUCTS Selected products including lighting, furniture and flooring DIRECTORY A noticeboard for design, retail and services BACK PAGE François Dallegret

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