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
Judaism and fashion
We head to Israel where fashion writers and ultra-orthodox Jews are striking up a somewhat uneasy relationship, give our verdict on the structure at the centre of New York’s MoMA “Warm Up” music series…
Designing Jakarta
We visit Jakarta’s burgeoning design community, assess Jurgen Mayer H’s Metropol Parasol in Seville and take a swing at architect-designed mini-golf courses in Washington.
Beirut, Barlett and Norway
A visit to the second annual Beirut Design Week, the Barlett School of Architecture Summer Show and we also check out a Norwegian design exhibition in Tokyo.
Architects Without Borders
We sit down with creative director of Uniqlo, Naoki Takizawa. Plus, a visit to the Architects Without Borders congress in Vienna and we get bidding at London salvage firm Lassco’s inaugural auction too.
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…
