Monocle on Design

Divine provenance

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20 February 2018

Episode 332

30 minutes

With the hows and wheres of production more important than ever, we bag an interview with Swedish accessories brand Sandqvist and design journalist Katie Tregidden. Plus: why gloomy headlines aren’t dampening the spirits of Greece’s native makers.

20 February 2018

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Does provenance matter?

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Katie Treggiden on how attitudes towards where and how things are made have evolved.

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Sandqvist

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Susan Stone meets the co-founders of Swedish bag brand Sandqvist. Plus: more from Katie Treggiden.

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Made in Greece

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Nathalie Savaricas charts 160 years of Greek manufacturing at an exhibition that suggests there’s plenty more to come.

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