13 December 2016
Episode 270
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In a design calendar saturated with stuffy halls and sad sandwiches, Design Miami – an offshoot of the Art Basel fair held in Miami each December – is a sunny and salubrious affair. Monocle’s New York deputy bureau chief Megan Billings reports from the show. Plus: a round-up of the best of this season’s design magazines with journalist Katie Treggiden.
13 December 2016
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Design Miami is a special event, with about 40,000 private collectors and privileged onlookers vying for one-off pieces and more than 30 galleries displaying their wares from a rather pretty perch in Miami beach. Rodman Primack, chief creative officer of Design Miami, tells us about the fair and his role in putting it together.
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Few people have their finger on the pulse of design quite as firmly as Katie Treggiden, a design journalist and editor of the biannual publication 'Fiera'. She joins Monocle’s Josh Fehnert in the studio for a round-up of some of the best like-minded magazines on the shelves right now.
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