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Latest Episodes
Furniture with B&B Italia and Alberto Alessi
We look back at more of the London Design Festival, and talk with furniture designers B&B Italia, Alberto Alessi and the minds behind Hay in Copenhagen. Plus we visit the Milovanov workshop in Moscow, Jane Packer florist’s in London and go to a very special residence on the island of…
London’s young designers
As London Design Festival kicks off we meet some of the young designers showing off their wares. Plus we head to the new Berlin home of eyewear brand Mykita and in Turkey we take a look at local summer houses.
Maison&Object special
Maison&Objet special: Section D producer David Plaisant takes a tour of the best of the design fair in Paris, with contributions from British designer Tom Dixon, Sheridan Coakley of SCP, mayor of Miami Beach Philip Levine and many more.
Playing with British brutalist architecture
A look at British Brutalist architecture as Tom Morris meets the designer of a new Barbican-themed computer game, Edward Mascarenhas. We also climb London’s Trellick Tower to talk bags with Ally Capellino, present the latest design news from Japan and deliver an in-depth masterclass in car branding as Volvo launches…
Monocle’s guide to good business
A workspace-design special as we delve into Monocle’s brand new book The Monocle Guide to Good Business and visit the offices of Frieze in London, Wonderwall in Tokyo and Mach Architektur in Zürich. Plus we go shopping for sunglasses with designer and founder of Prism, Anna Laub and visit the…
Studio Octopi’s floating swimming pool
Section D heads to Australia to hear from some of those making design happen in Sydney, we take an imaginary dip in the river Thames where Studio Octopi has unveiled plans to create a floating swimming pool, judge books by their covers with Peter Mendelsund, look at lighting design with…
Beirut’s scars
We meet Bruno Maag, creative director of London font specialists Dalton Maag and also talk typesets from Singapore. Plus, we take a look at two new books about Finnish design from Laura Houseley and Robert McCarter, head to Beirut where old scars in the city’s makeup are still not healing…
Modernism with Mies van der Rohe
Liam Aldous heads to Barcelona to visit a stunning modernist house designed by Mies van der Rohe, we get a sneak preview of what’s coming up at the Istanbul Design Biennial with its curator Zoe Ryan, investigate how scents can be used in the design process with a trip to…
Lisbon housing special
Lisbon housing special: Section D travels to two contrasting areas of the city, Bairro da Liberdade and Portela de Sacavem, to examine the legacy of Lisbon’s housing programmes from the past five decades. Plus we report on housing initiatives pursued by Lisbon City Hall and look at the work of…
Behind New York’s Park Hyatt capital?
We take a hard-hat tour of the new Park Hyatt hotel in New York with the design firm behind it, Yabu Pushelberg. Plus, a look at how architecture can be a tool for change with the director of Architecture for Humanity, Eric Cesal and we get the latest design stories…
