Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
Latest Episodes
A trip to the museum
Members of the ‘Monocle On Design’ team take field trips to the Met in New York, Rome’s Maxxi museum and the recently opened, Sou Fujimoto-designed House of Music in Budapest.
Modernism Week
We take a trip to Palm Springs for Modernism Week and discuss how comfort shaped mid-century furniture. Plus: modern architecture and comedy with Tim Ross.
Olympic curling, Public Practice and Sálon Cosa
We learn about the curling stones that are sliding across our screens at the Winter Olympics and hear about a new initiative that’s placing architects into municipal governments. Plus: a report from Sálon Cosa, an art and design fair in Mexico City.
Book club
We explore a title on Swiss-influenced architecture in the US and reflect on the illustrious career of furniture designer Jens Risom. Plus: Jan Gehl’s seminal book ‘Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space’.
Bjarke Ingels’ Nabr, ‘Woman Made’, Barber Osgerby
We meet Bjarke Ingels and the team behind sustainable housing concept Nabr; check out a new lighting collaboration between Barber Osgerby and Galerie Kreo; and hear about a new book about influential women in design.
Restelo, Plank, ‘dugnad’
This week we tour a Lisbon neighbourhood brimming with beautiful buildings, meet a classic Italian furniture brand that is rapidly modernising and explore the Norwegian concept of ‘dugnad’.
Menswear special
We head to Florence for Pitti Uomo and Milan for Men’s Fashion Week. Plus: we catch up with Giuseppe Santamaria, a photographer who documents street style around the globe.
Fashion news, Antigone Ceramics and beauty in buildings
We preview a busy year ahead for the fashion industry and visit a ceramics studio that’s a hit with chefs and restaurants in Athens. Plus: we discuss a new UK policy that aims to promote beauty in buildings.
Martha Schwartz, Cubitts and Shantell Martin
We sit down with legendary landscape architect Martha Schwartz, make our own set of precision-fitted spectacles and discuss the benefits of collaborative projects.
What we learned: a design special
Nic Monisse reflects on what we’ve learned in the design industry this year. Plus: we explore Remai Modern, a public art museum in Saskatoon, Canada.
