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Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world’s most exciting studios.

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‘Designing for our Future Selves’:

We look at solutions that will help people to age gracefully and live their later years as independently as possible. Plus: the legacy of Portuguese modernist designer Daciano Da Costa and the founder of Madrid concept store Llop shows us around.

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59721 Mar 2023
30 min

‘Designing for our Future Selves’: 

We look at solutions that will help people to age gracefully and live their later years as independently as possible. Plus: the legacy of Portuguese modernist designer Daciano Da Costa and the founder of Madrid concept store Llop shows us around.

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16 Mar 2023
7 min

Extra: Gustaf Westman: 

We visit the industrial designer’s new studio and showroom in Stockholm.

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59614 Mar 2023
30 min

Collectible, Roca, Kachorovska: 

We visit the Collectible design fair in Brussels as designers Inma Bermúdez and Andreu Carulla talk us through their collections for Spanish bathroom firm Roca. Plus: Ukrainian footwear designer Alina Kachorovska discusses the challenges of production, a year on from the Russian invasion.

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9 Mar 2023
7 min

Extra: Leisure centres : 

Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, discusses the imaginative and eclectic architecture that you’ll find at the UK’s leisure centres – and explains why we should save them.

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5957 Mar 2023
30 min

‘Not Black or White’, Jorge Penadés and Galerie Revel: 

We visit a craft and design exhibition in the heart of London’s Marylebone and check in with Spanish designer Jorge Penadés, whose recent project was inspired by hollow cardboard tubes. Plus: we meet the team at Galerie Revel, a Bordeaux-based contemporary design space.

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2 Mar 2023
6 min

Extra: Aequō gallery: 

Tarini Jindal Handa, founder of India’s first collectable design gallery, shares how she is bringing traditional craft to contemporary audiences.

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59428 Feb 2023
30 min

‘Fashion Reimagined’, Slow Spain, Material Reform: 

Designer Amy Powney discusses new documentary ‘Fashion Reimagined’, which charts her journey in making her clothing label sustainable, and we visit Madrid Design Festival. Plus: research practice Material Cultures detail the importance of bio-based materials in construction.

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23 Feb 2023
8 min

Extra: London Fashion Week : 

Monocle’s fashion editor Natalie Theodosi and Grace Charlton discuss their highlights from the event.

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59321 Feb 2023
30 min

Lawrence Steele, Kusheda Mensah: 

Lawrence Steele, creative director of Italian label Aspesi, takes us through his vision for the clothing brand. Plus, London-based maker Kusheda Mensah shares her creative journey in crafting a modular furniture collection. 

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16 Feb 2023
3 min

Extra: Sprucing up for spring: 

Monocle’s design editor, Nic Monisse, ponders one goal that a design practice or studio should consider.

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59214 Feb 2023
30 min

Baux, Ganni and Arc: 

We explore the link between materials and wellbeing with acoustic specialists Baux. Then we discuss Ganni’s latest collaboration with Copenhagen’s Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst. Plus: what would a reimagining of the English country house look like today?

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9 Feb 2023
5 min

Extra: Atelier100: 

We look at a shop in London where all of the products on offer have been developed and produced within a 100km radius of the city.

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5917 Feb 2023
30 min

East London Cloth, Brioni and Kimberly Dowdell: 

We visit a textile studio in east London and head to Milan to meet Brioni’s design director. Plus: the incoming president of the American Institute of Architects discusses her plans.

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2 Feb 2023
5 min

Extra: Chateau Orlando: 

Artist and designer Luke Edward Hall explains how Cornish folklore has provided ample inspiration for the latest collection from his homeware and fashion brand.

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59031 Jan 2023
30 min

Paris special: 

We bring you the best of what was on show at two events in the French capital: trade fair Maison&Objet and Paris Fashion Week for menswear.

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