Monocle on Design
Your essential guide to design, covering furniture, craft, and architecture. Discover fresh stories, rising talents, and the latest from top studios.
Latest Episodes
Maison&Object special
Maison&Objet special: Section D producer David Plaisant takes a tour of the best of the design fair in Paris, with contributions from British designer Tom Dixon, Sheridan Coakley of SCP, mayor of Miami Beach…
Playing with British brutalist architecture
A look at British Brutalist architecture as Tom Morris meets the designer of a new Barbican-themed computer game, Edward Mascarenhas. We also climb London’s Trellick Tower to talk bags with Ally Capellino, present the…
Monocle’s guide to good business
A workspace-design special as we delve into Monocle’s brand new book The Monocle Guide to Good Business and visit the offices of Frieze in London, Wonderwall in Tokyo and Mach Architektur in Zürich. Plus…
Studio Octopi’s floating swimming pool
Section D heads to Australia to hear from some of those making design happen in Sydney, we take an imaginary dip in the river Thames where Studio Octopi has unveiled plans to create a…
Beirut’s scars
We meet Bruno Maag, creative director of London font specialists Dalton Maag and also talk typesets from Singapore. Plus, we take a look at two new books about Finnish design from Laura Houseley and…
Modernism with Mies van der Rohe
Liam Aldous heads to Barcelona to visit a stunning modernist house designed by Mies van der Rohe, we get a sneak preview of what’s coming up at the Istanbul Design Biennial with its curator…
Lisbon housing special
Lisbon housing special: Section D travels to two contrasting areas of the city, Bairro da Liberdade and Portela de Sacavem, to examine the legacy of Lisbon’s housing programmes from the past five decades. Plus…
Behind New York’s Park Hyatt capital?
We take a hard-hat tour of the new Park Hyatt hotel in New York with the design firm behind it, Yabu Pushelberg. Plus, a look at how architecture can be a tool for change…
Melbourne: the new furniture capital?
Adrian Craddock reports on mid-century modern pieces in the unlikely furniture capital of Melbourne, Markus Hippi heads to Fire Island, New York, to visit an architecture studio that’s helped create the seaside town’s identity…
Saddles from Brooks England
To mark the arrival of the Tour de France, Section D takes its own tour of the Brooks England factory – purveyor of the finest bicycle saddles in the business. We also discover a…
