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Latest Episodes
Creations from Cartier
Just in time for Christmas we get sparkly at a new exhibition of Cartier’s best ever creations in Paris, explore the mystery of Turkey’s lost Expo pavilion of 1958 and find out what effect the built environment can have on our health and wellbeing.
Round-up from Design Miami
We report from Design Miami and design journalist Dan Rubinstein discusses the event’s successes and failures. We also hear from the Monocle art desk ahead of the release of our winter publication, Alpino and question the enduring legacy of concrete.
Calligraphy with Rajiv Surendra
We turn on the neon in Seoul and drop in on an expo dedicated to signage, we also meet an industry leader in calligraphy, Rajiv Surendra and visit a landmark of hi-tech architecture (from the 1970s) in the UK.
25 years after Danube Island
Elna Nykanen Andersson reports from the Swedish Association of Architects’ annual gala about how the city is bracing itself as its population rapidly increases and we decamp to Austria 25 years after the pioneering creation of the Danube Island in its capital, Vienna. Plus Charles Phu, founder of design practice…
Portugal and cork
Monocle’s creative director Richard Spencer Powell and photo director Poppy Shibamoto discuss the design of our biggest ever issue, we meet the minds behind a pioneering new multi-faith centre in Berlin and visit Portugal to see how a series of designers are reimagining how to make use of one of…
Paris’s newest design star Pauline Deltour
Monocle’s David Plaisant is in Turin to visit the city’s Paratissima design show, Aled John heads to Paris to meet with rising design star Pauline Deltour and our creative director Richard Spencer Powell talks about Sweden’s new brand identity.
Balancing design and activism with Femke Herregraven
Femke Herregraven, winner of this year’s Mini Dutch Design Award for a young designer tells Aled John how she balances design with activism and we’re given a tour of the exhibitions at the iconic Klokgebouw building in Eindhoven. Plus Guy de Launey reports on Belgrade’s first so-called designer playground and…
Exploring Dutch Design Week
Dutch design special: Section D heads to Eindhoven to explore Dutch Design Week with chats with from the event’s director Martijn Paulen, and chief design officer for Philips Lighting, Rogier Van Der Heide, tells all about bright emerging talent in the Netherlands. Plus from tech to textiles we explore the…
The man behind Studio 54
Jorge P Silva of Aires Mateus architects in Lisbon reflects on the state of Portuguese architecture, our Toronto correspondents report on both the local fashion week and ICAMA (International Conference on Adaptation and movement in Architecture) and Alexa Firmenich meets the man who designed Studio 54, Ian Schrager.
Brazil on the global stage
We speak to Brazilian retailers and designers helping put the nation on the global stage. Brazil aside. Plus visits to two film festivals dedicated to architecture on the silver screen – one in New York and the other in Rotterdam.
