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Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
Latest Episodes
Design legacy
A conversation with high-minded Italian architect Renzo Piano about his aim of thinking big for his home nation’s suburbs and we look to the Netherlands where fans are celebrating the creator of Miffy the rabbit – master graphic-designer Dick Bruna.
Design in Japan
A look at the new Japan-themed Issue 81 of Monocle with the magazine’s photo-director Poppy Shibamoto. Plus, a look back at the career of industrial-designer Kenji Ekuan, we savour the scent of Parisian perfumers Ex Nihilo, visit London’s Soane Museum and discuss craftsmanship in Italian design.
From South Korea to King’s Cross
Introducing a showcase of the best young South Korean architects. Plus artist Anne Howeson’s drawings of London’s King’s Cross, FilmDoo’s film-poster competition and architectural cut-outs from Poland.
Design at work
A look at business-minded design, with Paola Navone at Ercol and Alexander Girard at Vitra, we take a tour of Manhattan’s new One Madison building and reappraise some magnificent UK office blocks just awarded official protection.
IMM Köln furniture fair
With the international design fairs now in full swing we continue our tour as Tom Morris visits the Köln furniture fair. We also call in at Berlin fashion week and preview Design Shanghai, coming up later this year.
The Palazzo peacocks
From the Pitti Uomo menswear fair in Florence, Tom Morris talks to some of the most sartorially sensitive signori at the prestigious fashion event.
Staying sharp at the Helsinki Knife Show
As the autumn/winter season hots up in the world of fashion, we meet some of the designers at the London Collections: Men event. Plus, we stay sharp for good design with a visit to the annual Helsinki Knife Show.
At home with Nini Andrade Silva
We meet one of Portugal’s most sought after interior designers Nini Andrade Silva on her home island of Madeira, hear from Portland Oregon where a postmodernist monument has just been spared the wrecking ball and head to Switzerland to meet architect Pascal Flammer: designer of a new style of alpine…
Typography with Erik Spiekermann
We tour Gaudí’s Torre Bellesguard in Barcelona, witness continuing architectural controversy in Belgrade and meet typographic legend Eric Spiekermann in Berlin.
Linking art and design
We explore the links between art and design with artist-cum-architect Anish Kapoor and London’s Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic tells us about his new book.
