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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
Changing the rules on exhibition design
The Section D team visit a Portuguese start-up ripping up the rule book on exhibition design. Aled John speaks exclusively to the Austrian furniture team behind Stuben21 and Tom Morris raises a glass with the CEO of French glassware brand Baccarat to mark its 250th anniversary.
Building a house in 4 minutes and 9 seconds
Canadian urban design: we debate the future of one of Toronto’s most contentious pieces of city infrastructure: the Gardiner Expressway. We also discuss a house that takes exactly four minutes and nine seconds to build and pay a visit to some sock designers in Istanbul.
Monocle: the Italian issue
In tribute to the new Italian-themed issue of Monocle, the magazine’s art team discuss the nuts and bolts of its design, architect Nille Juul-Sørensen describes the Hong Kong-influenced Constant Change exhibition and we meet the winner of Canada’s Emerging Designer award, 26-year-old Lukas Peet.
London Fashion Week
We get the commercial and creative lowdown on London Fashion Week, find out how one design brand is turning to its loyal customers to bolster its future and sift through the 76 nominations on the London Design Museum’s Designs Of The Year shortlist.
Serbia’s first ever R&D centre for design
Monocle’s editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé sits down with the CEO of Swiss storage specialists USM, Alexander Scharer, in Zürich, we report on the future of the Tempelhof Airport park in Berlin and pull open the doors to peer into Serbia’s first ever R&D centre dedicated to design.
Cape Town in 2014
Gillian Dobias reports from Cape Town to find out how the World Design Capital proposes to change the landscape in 2014, we drop in at a new exhibition taking a fresh look at how we experience space and give our verdict on a new university campus in Vienna.
Sir Terry Farrell on the role of the architect
Part two of our special on the Farrell Review: Sir Terry Farrell discusses the changing role of the architect with Aled John, we also report from Maison & Objet in Paris and our Canada team explores Toronto Design Week.
Public and private change with Sir Terry Farrell
Architect Sir Terry Farrell sits down with Aled John to discuss the prospects for public and private change in the UK, and it’s trade-fair season – this week we report from Bread & Butter in Berlin, Home in London and the IMM furniture fair in Köln.
British culture minister Ed Vaizey on architecture
A chat with UK minister for culture, Ed Vaizey, about the Farrell Review into architecture and the built environment and we don our best blazers, bowties and brogues to report from Pitti Uomo – the leading menswear event in Florence.
Good design and natural disaster
A look at the new crop of designers reinvigorating the Turkish fashion scene, we learn how good design helps cities during natural disasters and as Cape Town celebrates being 2014 World Design Capital we head to Taipei to discuss how that city will next be taking up the crown.
