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Latest Episodes
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 and use a water pipe to inhale some chocolate in Belgium.
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 mind.
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 out how it is facing the future and speak to designer-developer Ian Schrager about his new…
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, Jane Packer florist’s in London and go to a very special residence on the island of…
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 a look at local summer houses.
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 Philip Levine and many more.
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 latest design news from Japan and deliver an in-depth masterclass in car branding as Volvo launches…
