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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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597	21 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	16 Mar 2023 7 min	Extra: Gustaf Westman: We visit the industrial designer’s new studio and showroom in Stockholm.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
596	14 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
595	7 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
594	28 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	23 Feb 2023 8 min	Extra: London Fashion Week : Monocle’s fashion editor Natalie Theodosi and Grace Charlton discuss their highlights from the event.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
593	21 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
592	14 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?	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
591	7 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
★	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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play
590	31 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.	Download Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share via email	Play

Design / Podcast

Monocle on Design

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Latest episodes

‘Designing for our Future Selves’:

Extra: Gustaf Westman:

Collectible, Roca, Kachorovska:

Extra: Leisure centres :

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

Extra: Aequō gallery:

‘Fashion Reimagined’, Slow Spain, Material Reform:

Extra: London Fashion Week :

Lawrence Steele, Kusheda Mensah:

Extra: Sprucing up for spring:

Baux, Ganni and Arc:

Extra: Atelier100:

East London Cloth, Brioni and Kimberly Dowdell:

Extra: Chateau Orlando:

Paris special: