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
Moki Cherry, White Arkitekter
We enter the technicolour world of Swedish creative Moki Cherry and learn about the challenges of sustainable timber structures with White Arkitekter. We also discuss emerging design talent in Poland.
Refugio
The new community space in Copenhagen offers a home to young designers and independent creatives in the city.
Tartan, Workshopping the Chattahoochee, Andrea Vytlačilová
We head to the ‘Tartan’ exhibition at the V&A Dundee and talk community consultation with landscape architecture firm Scape. Plus, we visit the studio of an emerging Czech designer.
‘Tsukiji Reimagined’
The current exhibition at White Conduit Projects gallery in London evokes the former fish market in Tokyo. We meet with artist Jake Tilson.
Prime Matter, Raw Mango, Low Collection
We visit Prime Matter, industrial designer Emmanuel Babled’s gallery in Lisbon, meet Sanjay Garg, founder of Indian luxury fashion brand Raw Mango and architect Benni Allan discusses his Low furniture collection.
‘Arranging Things’
New York-based stylist Colin King discusses his recent monograph, published by Rizzoli.
Bard, Young V&A, Paper Fashion
We travel to Bard, an Edinburgh gallery focused on sharing Scottish craft and design. We head to the rebranded and re-vamped Young Victoria & Albert Museum in East London. Plus, we learn of a material innovation in the 1960s that resulted in paper fashion.
Atelier Caracas
We meet Julio Kowalenko and Rodrigo Armas, the team behind cross-disciplinary architectural and design practice Atelier Caracas. They discuss their multifaceted approach and the importance of producing design through a Venezuelan lens.
Brian Clarke, Massimiliano Locatelli, Workwear
Stained glass artist, Brian Clarke, shares the importance and challenges of modernising the ancient art form and architect Massimilano Locatelli discusses his approach to designing interiors and buildings. Plus, curator Eldina Begic reflects on the utopian, political and artistic potential of workwear.
Extra: Birdie
Company co-founder and designer, Hans Augustenborg, discusses his analogue approach to devising a visual solution to the issue of indoor air quality.
