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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
Controversy with Berlin
We learn why the redevelopment of the Berlin City Palace is such a controversial project, take a trip into the future at the London Design Museum’s Industrial Revolution exhibition and sit down with Nicholas Roope of Poke to discuss his new work with Mulberry.
A retrospective on Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers turns 80 and we get a tour around a retrospective of his life’s work at the Royal Academy, we talk fonts with the maker of stop-motion film about the topic and Monocle creative director Richard Spencer Powell sits down to talk about design highlights from this year’s edition…
Judaism and fashion
We head to Israel where fashion writers and ultra-orthodox Jews are striking up a somewhat uneasy relationship, give our verdict on the structure at the centre of New York’s MoMA “Warm Up” music series and get an insight into the summer show at London’s Architectural Association.
Designing Jakarta
We visit Jakarta’s burgeoning design community, assess Jurgen Mayer H’s Metropol Parasol in Seville and take a swing at architect-designed mini-golf courses in Washington.
Beirut, Barlett and Norway
A visit to the second annual Beirut Design Week, the Barlett School of Architecture Summer Show and we also check out a Norwegian design exhibition in Tokyo.
Architects Without Borders
We sit down with creative director of Uniqlo, Naoki Takizawa. Plus, a visit to the Architects Without Borders congress in Vienna and we get bidding at London salvage firm Lassco’s inaugural auction too.
OMA’s Rotterdam debut
We road-test OMA’s debut furniture range in Rotterdam, talk bespoke fragrances in Singapore and get a preview tour of the new Heathrow Terminal 2 with architect Luis Vidal.
Behind Sepertine Gallery Pavilion: Sou Fujimoto
We talk to Sou Fujimoto, the architect behind this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Plus, all the news from Belgrade Design Week and a short history of lights in Paris.
Tropical Modernism
Tropical Modernism in Ghana with our correspondent in Accra, Christopher Lord, Charles Correa gives us a tour of his life’s work at London’s RIBA and we sit down with Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, to find out about this year’s winner.
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.
