Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
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Villa Médici, Jacu Strauss, Villa Müller
This week we visit Rome’s Villa Médici, which has undergone an acoustic makeover, and designer and hotelier Jacu Strauss joins us in our London studio to discuss his career. Plus: an early modernist home…
Bellerby & Co Globemakers, Chybik + Kristof, ‘Georgian Illuminations’
We go on a workshop tour to learn the craft of creating bespoke globes and Czech architect Ondrej Chybík joins us in the studio. Plus: we visit an installation that illuminates the history of…
Dubai Design Week
Nic Monisse reports from this year’s event, which took place on the streets and in the buildings of the city’s design district.
Charlene Prempeh, Fforme, Martin Brudnizki
We talk to Charlene Prempeh about diversity in design and hear from fashion label Fforme. Plus: a chat with designer Martin Brudnizki about his new retail outpost for And Objects.
David Thulstrup, The Office Group, Store Projects
We talk about total design with Danish architect David Thulstrup and find out how The Office Group’s new timber tower could tempt workers back into town. Plus: we check in with Store Projects, an…
Frances Priest, ‘Small Spaces in the City’, Building on the Built
We visit ‘Small Spaces in the City’ at Roca London Gallery, an exhibition that looks at the challenges of tiny homes across the globe. We also tour the studio of Edinburgh-based ceramicist Frances Priest…
William Smalley, ‘Fashion City’, TAKT
Architect William Smalley tells us what makes the ideal ‘quiet space’ and Danish brand TAKT rethinks how we design, build and sell furniture. Plus: we visit a new exhibition, ‘Fashion City’, at the Museum…
Refract, Matthew Hilton, LMN Architects
We preview the forthcoming Refract glass arts festival in Seattle and meet British industrial designer Matthew Hilton to discuss his first sculpture show in London.
Vienna Design Week, Fashion Week Reflections, British Ceramics Biennial
We head to the Austrian capital for its design week and review the recent run of fashion weeks in London, Milan and Paris. Plus: a visit to Stoke-on-Trent for the British Ceramics Biennial.
London Design Festival
At this year’s London Design Festival we meet social enterprise POor Collective, winner of the Emerging Design Medal, and enter the bright world of artist and designer Morag Myerscough. We also stop by Singapore…
