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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
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’.
Extra: Mac Collins
We meet the Nottingham-born designer and artist, who is making narrative-driven furniture and has his first solo showcase at London’s Design Museum.
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.
Extra: A ‘Modernist’ makeover
Graphic designer Trevor Johnson takes us through his revamp of quarterly magazine ‘The Modernist’.
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’.
Extra: Canal couture
Venice’s gondoliers have a new uniform. We learn why The Woolmark Company’s high-performance merino wool is perfectly tailored for the city’s famous canals.
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.
Extra: Eberhard Zeidler
We reflect on the remarkable and influential career of late architect Eberhard Zeidler, whose legacy includes some of Toronto’s most ground-breaking public spaces.
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.
Extra: Fitting places
Pritzker prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have their second exhibition at Toto Gallery Ma. Monocle’s Tokyo bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, shares what we can expect from the showcase, which is titled ‘Architecture and Environment’.
