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Latest Episodes
Home truths
Never mind the tight squeeze, London’s Isokon building offers a lesson in clever housing that today’s architects and developers should heed; we preview a new exhibition celebrating its most famous resident and founder of the Bauhaus School, Walter Gropius. Plus: how Denmark’s Ole Lynggaard brings a shine to jewellery design…
New Austrian fashion
Ditch the dirndls and leave out the lederhosen, there’s a fresh crop of fashion designers in the Austrian capital who are taking the nation’s wardrobe in new directions. Alexei Korolyov cuts a dash around town to investigate the city’s sartorial success.
Israeli design special
At only 69 years old, Israel is a young country with countless identities. But what does this mean for the nation’s contemporary designers, artists and makers? We take a design-minded tour of the country to find out.
New frontiers of design
We take a look at how the design industry is exploring new frontiers: the RIBA’s new venue in Liverpool, the advent of outdoor lighting with the chief executive of Flos and what to watch out for in the menswear industry.
California: designing freedom
London’s Design Museum looks at the Golden State’s influence, we speak to the co-chief executive of one of the biggest architecture and design firms in the US and we meet one of the people responsible for some of the most recognisable rock art of all time.
Illustration: the state of the art
We talk to two leading illustrators about the past, present and future of the art form. Plus, eyewear innovation in Vienna and modern office furniture from Another Country.
Beirut Design Week 2017
Now in its sixth year, the Lebanese fair was called ‘Is design a need?’ Far from flogging furniture, the event sought to stimulate wider social, political, environmental and technological discussions around design.
Material world
We speak to three young designers innovating with new materials at Interzum furniture production fair in Köln. We also ask if renovation and demolition have betrayed the values of Britain’s post-war architecture, and do a stocktake of the new shop at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Eco chamber: Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2017
We bring you interviews and analysis from the world’s premier forum on sustainability in fashion.
Making it in the city
Voices from London Craft Week including its founder and chairman Guy Salter, British designer Jonathan Anderson and Barbara Geary Truan, secretary general of The Michelangelo Foundation. Plus, a report from Singapore’s Art Book Fair.
