7 July 2015
Episode 195
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Josh Fehnert meets the founders of ‘Fiera’, a new magazine that catalogues the output of the world’s design fairs. Plus Tom Morris meets design impresario Kelly Hoppen, David Plaisant goes to Battersea Power Station to check up on the progress of Phase One and we report from Toronto’s annual RAW Canvas conceptual architecture event.
7 July 2015
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‘Fiera’ magazine was founded last December by blogger Katie Treggiden and creative director of MagCulture, Jeremy Leslie. Josh Fehnert discusses freshly launched second-issue tackling talent from Copenhagen, Stockholm, Frankfurt and Milan.
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Next year British interior designer Kelly Hoppen will celebrate the 40th anniversary of her business, which she started aged 16 with the renovation of a family friend’s kitchen. Monocle contributing editor Tom Morris sits down with Kelly in Los Angeles to find out more.
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As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Battersea Power Station hosted an event entitled “Industrial to Post-industrial”, which examined the history of the power station as well as unveiling the first phase of development – Circus West.
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For the past eight years architecture practice Raw has presented Raw Canvas, an annual event celebrating a corner of the city that finds itself on the cusp of change. This year the event took place at a former warehouse, once home to a fabled nightspot, which will soon be torn down to become a new arts complex on Toronto’s waterfront.
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