Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
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Designing trains
What does it take to design a new train? We speak to Fabio Filippini of Pininfarina, which has just unveiled its new Eurostar carriages. We also take a tour of Oliver Spencer’s new Shoreditch…
Japan’s stadiums
All the highlights from the Istanbul Design Biennal, plus we hear the latest on Japan’s national stadium plans, explore a book devoted to Danish silversmith Georg Jensen and visit Eley Kishimoto’s London studio.
Lesson in fashion illustration
David Plaisant gets a lesson in fashion illustration with Stuart McKenzie. We also return to UN headquarters to find out about Norway’s design legacy, take a tour of the Orgatec office-furniture fair in Köln…
Fashion in Seoul
This week David Plaisant visits the Biennale Interieur in Belgium, our New York bureau chief explores the recently refurbished UN headquarters and we go to South Korea for the new-look Seoul Fashion Week.
Lisbon’s finest
We look around some of Lisbon’s finest properties, tour two very different furniture fairs in Belgium and California and pick our top homeware options from Monocle’s Design Directory.
Designing the skies
We take to the skies with new book Airline Visual Identity 1945 – 1975 published by Callisto. Plus we look at New York and Belgrade: two cities being designed with the surrounding water in…
The rise of infographics
We focus on the architecture of Ernő Goldfinger in London and also chart the rise and rise of infographics with the editors of new design books Raw Data and Understanding the World.
Curating with Elias Redstone and Iwan Baan
We meet architectural curator Elias Redstone as he launches his new book Shooting Space, plus one of its featured photographers: the world-renowned Iwan Baan. We also visit the Glasgow School of Art to find…
Furniture with B&B Italia and Alberto Alessi
We look back at more of the London Design Festival, and talk with furniture designers B&B Italia, Alberto Alessi and the minds behind Hay in Copenhagen. Plus we visit the Milovanov workshop in Moscow,…
London’s young designers
As London Design Festival kicks off we meet some of the young designers showing off their wares. Plus we head to the new Berlin home of eyewear brand Mykita and in Turkey we take…
