This year sadly saw the passing of many iconic figures from architecture and design, including architect IM Pei, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and lighting designer Ingo Maurer. We remember 10 of the greats we lost in 2019 to complete our review of the year.
Other legends who passed away this year include architect César Pelli, designer Alessandro Mendini, graphic designer Wim Crouwel and writer Charles Jencks.
We also lost graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, Californian modernist Ray Kappe, Superstudio co-founder Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, architect Philip Freelon, educator Pierre Keller, architect Stanley Tigerman and fashion designer Joe Casely-Hayford.
Here we remember 10 of the greats we lost in 2019.

IM Pei
Born in 1917, Pritzker Prize-winning architect IM Pei was known for a bold modernist style that experimented with strict geometries and shapes, and a portfolio of significant buildings ? including the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the glass-and-steel pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and the Kennedy Library in Boston. Pei had received prestigious awards such as the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the Pritzker Prize in 1983, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and RIBA's Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 2010. He died this year aged 102.

Karl Lagerfeld
Prestigious fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was at the helm fashion houses Chanel and Fendi when he died this year aged 85.
He had seven-decade career in fashion saw him join Fendi i...