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
OMA’s Rotterdam debut
We road-test OMA’s debut furniture range in Rotterdam, talk bespoke fragrances in Singapore and get a preview tour of the new Heathrow Terminal 2 with architect Luis Vidal.
Behind Sepertine Gallery Pavilion: Sou Fujimoto
We talk to Sou Fujimoto, the architect behind this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Plus, all the news from Belgrade Design Week and a short history of lights in Paris.
Tropical Modernism
Tropical Modernism in Ghana with our correspondent in Accra, Christopher Lord, Charles Correa gives us a tour of his life’s work at London’s RIBA and we sit down with Martha Thorne, executive director of…
Behind HTC’s creativity
We hop from ICFF in New York to Clerkenwell Design Week in London and up to a new event in Helsinki designed to promote the next generation of Finnish fashion designers too. Plus a…
Lessons for architecture
A visit to the What Design Can Do event in Amsterdam, we talk publishing with Gert Jonkers and Jop Van Bennekom – creators of Fantastic Man and ask what lessons the West can learn…
Italian design’s future
Discussion on the future of Italian design with Moroso and Cassina, we attend the Pratt Institute’s latest fashion showcase and also New York’s newest design fair – Collective 1. Plus we talk fetishism and…
Mapping the blind
We learn about maps for the blind, visit Les bains Douches in Paris, speak with Marianne Goebl – director of Design Miami and meet Gieves and Hawkes’ creative director, Jason Basmajian.
DNA-shaped furniture
We investigate the future of 3D printing in New York, talk to the founders of e-commerce community Bespoke Global and find out how to commission a piece of furniture in the shape of your…
Talking with John Pawson, Alexander Schärer, Naoku Kubo and Philipp Mainzer
More from the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan, we talk to John Pawson, Alexander Schärer from USM, Naoko Kubo from Sfera, Philipp Mainzer from e15 and we also digest the results of…
Rouding up Salone del Mobile
A round-up of the best from the 52nd Salone del Mobile in Milan, including design chats with Ambra Medda, Marko Ahtisaari, Sam Hecht and Thomas Lykke.
