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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
Behind HTC’s creativity
We hop from ICFF in New York to Clerkenwell Design Week in London and up to a new event in Helsinki designed to promote the next generation of Finnish fashion designers too. Plus a sit down with Claude Zellweger, creative director at HTC.
Lessons for architecture
A visit to the What Design Can Do event in Amsterdam, we talk publishing with Gert Jonkers and Jop Van Bennekom – creators of Fantastic Man and ask what lessons the West can learn from eastern architecture with urbanist Rahul Mehrotra.
Italian design’s future
Discussion on the future of Italian design with Moroso and Cassina, we attend the Pratt Institute’s latest fashion showcase and also New York’s newest design fair – Collective 1. Plus we talk fetishism and cushions with Dutch design guru Lidewij Edelkoort.
Mapping the blind
We learn about maps for the blind, visit Les bains Douches in Paris, speak with Marianne Goebl – director of Design Miami and meet Gieves and Hawkes’ creative director, Jason Basmajian.
DNA-shaped furniture
We investigate the future of 3D printing in New York, talk to the founders of e-commerce community Bespoke Global and find out how to commission a piece of furniture in the shape of your own DNA.
Talking with John Pawson, Alexander Schärer, Naoku Kubo and Philipp Mainzer
More from the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, we talk to John Pawson, Alexander Schärer from USM, Naoko Kubo from Sfera, Philipp Mainzer from e15 and we also digest the results of London Design Museum’s Design of the Year award.
Rouding up Salone del Mobile
A round-up of the best from the 52nd Salone del Mobile in Milan, including design chats with Ambra Medda, Marko Ahtisaari, Sam Hecht and Thomas Lykke.
Sitting down with Toyo Ito
We head to the streets of Milan and the 52nd Salone del Mobile design fair. Plus, a sit-down with legendary Japanese architect and most recent winner of the Pritzker Prize, Toyo Ito.
All things Monocle
We drop in on the brand new Monocle Café, we talk to designer Martin Brudnizki and we hear from Monocle’s creative director, Richard Spencer Powell about the importance of working with your hands.
Alice Rawsthorn say shello
Design critic Alice Rawsthorn on her new book “Hello World”, we review the London Design Museum’s Designs of the Year exhibition and pay a visit to Le Corbusier’s only project in the Americas – a house outside Buenos Aires.
