Design / Property
Chairs and graces
Fascinated with furniture design, Noritsugu Oda bought his first chair in the 1970s. He now has 1,200 of them. But, as Monocle discovers, he isn’t in the slightest bit precious about his priceless collection.
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Design / Furniture
Salone stars
At Rho, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile’s main stamping ground, over 2,500 exhibitors were spread over 490,000 sq m. The city’s showrooms and galleries were bustling too and the Euroluce lighting fair, was equally…
Design / Craft
Trad over rad
The prevailing mood at this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair was one of optimism, but companies shunned daring, boundary-pushing concepts in favour of classic, well-crafted works.
Business / Neighbourhood Business
Market force
This month we start a new series that decodes the DNA of success – of anything. First up is a San Francisco food store that has become an urban sensation.
Design / Interior design
Perfect den
The Finns know how to do winter. This open-plan Helsinki penthouse is warm and inviting while still being bright and airy. It’s the perfect pad for hunkering down.
End Point / Interior design
Observation
For many of us it’s a case of not being able to see the forest for the trees. For Italy it was more not being able to spot the opportunity for the chairs at this year’s Milan furniture fair.
Culture / Publishing
Fiell excited
Since resigning as design editors-in-chief at Taschen, husband and wife Peter and Charlotte Fiell have been plotting their own publishing empire. After two years of hard work, they are ready to make their splash. But don’t…
The Globalist, episode 142
We look at the future for Nicolas Sarkozy, ask should chairs replace traditional pews in church? And check in with our man in Berlin.
Design / Architecture
Design/Architecture Briefing
A new sports hall in Australia, an exquisite chair from Sweden and a Q & A with the new director of the ECAL design school in Lausanne.
The Globalist, episode 122
Salone Internazionale del Mobile: Joseph Grima, Alexis Georgacopoulos and Aric Chen join Hugo Macdonald in the studio. Plus, SodaStream’s reinvention and the day’s best chairs.
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East briefing
We find out what's in the wardrobe of the first woman to chair the African Union and how the Lebanese are cracking down on corruption.
The Briefing, episode 5
Robert Bound is in the chair today, looking at the newly liberated media in Tunisia in the run up to the election, plus we head to the Tribeca Film Festival.
Section D, episode 31
Design and faith: we visit a synagogue in a former Gucci store in New York and talk about church seating chairs and also nuns’ habits.
Midori House, episode 12
Why Spanish campaigners want to bid adios to the afternoon nap, what’s next for Al Jazeera Arabic and a chair that could change the way you rest.
Section D, episode 24
Part two of our John Pawson interview, we visit Ohio Design in San Francisco, and talk with London’s Viaduct store about chairs.
The Curator, episode 21
Jonathan Openshaw selects highlights from our Japan series, revisits French expats in Hong Kong, and a chair that plays music as his week’s best bits.
The Stack, episode 24
In a special edition from Auckland, Tyler Brûlé is joined by Andy Pickering, editor of Pilot magazine, and John Baker, chair of New Zealand's Magazine Publishers Association.
Business / Interior design
Yo smushi
Danish design hardly needs encouragement but Rud Christiansen’s The Royal Cafe places the country’s High Modernism in its proper regal and culinary context. Pull up a bespoke Ant chair for global food, iconic branding and…
Design / Environment
Design/Architecture Briefing
A reworked Chinese trishaw and a Russian "sleep box" are some of the new products on the radar this month.