Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering fashion, furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
Latest Episodes
Elevating Britain’s craftsmen
Tom Morris talks craft with the co-founder of an initiative that’s helping to elevate the status – and line the pockets – of craftsmen across the Britain, Sir Anish Kapoor reflects on the distinctions…
Fashion magazine’s guide through Toronto’s biannual fashion week
Bernadette Morra of Fashion magazine and others guide the Section D team through some of the new talent at Toronto’s biannual fashion week, plus we head to an exhibition in Vienna that highlights the…
Alexandra’s architectural heritage
A visit to Egypt to examine the architectural heritage of Alexandria and its future to come, we also meet the man behind the winner of last year’s Design of the Year award – for…
Changing the rules on exhibition design
The Section D team visit a Portuguese start-up ripping up the rule book on exhibition design. Aled John speaks exclusively to the Austrian furniture team behind Stuben21 and Tom Morris raises a glass with…
Building a house in 4 minutes and 9 seconds
Canadian urban design: we debate the future of one of Toronto’s most contentious pieces of city infrastructure: the Gardiner Expressway. We also discuss a house that takes exactly four minutes and nine seconds to…
Monocle: the Italian issue
In tribute to the new Italian-themed issue of Monocle, the magazine’s art team discuss the nuts and bolts of its design, architect Nille Juul-Sørensen describes the Hong Kong-influenced Constant Change exhibition and we meet…
London Fashion Week
We get the commercial and creative lowdown on London Fashion Week, find out how one design brand is turning to its loyal customers to bolster its future and sift through the 76 nominations on…
Serbia’s first ever R&D centre for design
Monocle’s editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé sits down with the CEO of Swiss storage specialists USM, Alexander Scharer, in Zürich, we report on the future of the Tempelhof Airport park in Berlin and pull open the…
Cape Town in 2014
Gillian Dobias reports from Cape Town to find out how the World Design Capital proposes to change the landscape in 2014, we drop in at a new exhibition taking a fresh look at how…
Sir Terry Farrell on the role of the architect
Part two of our special on the Farrell Review: Sir Terry Farrell discusses the changing role of the architect with Aled John, we also report from Maison & Objet in Paris and our Canada…
