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From bikinis to bathrooms
A global whip-round of this week’s design stories. Tom Morris goes to Baselworld watch fair and we meet the new president of Finnish design house Marimekko. Plus we go to Rio see the bikinis of Lenny Niemeyer and to Frankfurt for the ISH bathroom design fair.
McQueen: the man and the masterpieces
Section D takes a special look at the incredible creations of the most important fashion designer of his time: Alexander McQueen. We take a tour of the V&A Museum’s vast retrospective and discuss McQueen’s legacy with The Gentlewoman deputy editor Caroline Roux and the Financial Times’ men’s fashion critic Charlie…
African design
A focus on African design: Tom Morris sits down with French art director Pierre-Christophe Gam and architect and furniture designer Ifeanyi Oganwu. Plus we hear from the Vitra Design Museum where contemporary African design and post-colonial modernist architecture are put on show
Björk in print
The story behind ‘Björk: Archives’, the new print volume accompanying the Icelandic superstar’s retrospective at MoMa. Plus, adaptive architecture with Bjarke Ingels, the opening of Barcelona’s Museu del Disseny and we take a closer look at Rio’s Zerezes sunglasses.
Design legacy
A conversation with high-minded Italian architect Renzo Piano about his aim of thinking big for his home nation’s suburbs and we look to the Netherlands where fans are celebrating the creator of Miffy the rabbit – master graphic-designer Dick Bruna.
Design in Japan
A look at the new Japan-themed Issue 81 of Monocle with the magazine’s photo-director Poppy Shibamoto. Plus, a look back at the career of industrial-designer Kenji Ekuan, we savour the scent of Parisian perfumers Ex Nihilo, visit London’s Soane Museum and discuss craftsmanship in Italian design.
From South Korea to King’s Cross
Introducing a showcase of the best young South Korean architects. Plus artist Anne Howeson’s drawings of London’s King’s Cross, FilmDoo’s film-poster competition and architectural cut-outs from Poland.
Design at work
A look at business-minded design, with Paola Navone at Ercol and Alexander Girard at Vitra, we take a tour of Manhattan’s new One Madison building and reappraise some magnificent UK office blocks just awarded official protection.
IMM Köln furniture fair
With the international design fairs now in full swing we continue our tour as Tom Morris visits the Köln furniture fair. We also call in at Berlin fashion week and preview Design Shanghai, coming up later this year.
The Palazzo peacocks
From the Pitti Uomo menswear fair in Florence, Tom Morris talks to some of the most sartorially sensitive signori at the prestigious fashion event.
