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
Scaling Tokyo Skytree tower
We scale the heights of the Tokyo Skytree tower, talk with furniture maker Philip Thonet and head to Pentagram design agency for its 40th anniversary.
Assessing London’s Orbit and Erik Gunnar Asplund’s work
We assess London’s new “Orbit” sculpture, look at the work of Erik Gunnar Asplund in Stockholm and talk to Felix Burrichter of Pin-Up magazine.
Integrating design and faith
Design and faith: we visit a synagogue in a former Gucci store in New York and talk about church seating chairs and also nuns’ habits.
Keeping Bauhaus architecture alive
How Tel Aviv is keeping Bauhaus architecture alive, we report from Hyères festival of fashion and photography and chat with architect Marcio Kogan.
Architecture with Zaha Hadid
The design series is presented by Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald and focuses on global design, architecture, fashion and graphics.
2015 for Milan
The best of Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, including Joseph Grima – editor of Domus magazine and a look at the city’s 2015 Expo plans.
Marcio Kogan’s studio
Chicago’s Architecture and Design Film Festival, we visit the studio of Marcio Kogan and head to Berlin to speak with Jürgen Mayer H.
Design’s new generation
Design’s new generation: we travel to Cape Town which will be world design capital in 2014 and visit an unusual New York denim brand.
Globe-Trotter suitcases
Design, transport and travel: the Chicago bicycle scene, Hamburg’s Aircraft Interiors Expo and Broxbourne, England’s famous Globe-Trotter suitcases.
Ohio design in San Francisco
Part two of our John Pawson interview, we visit Ohio Design in San Francisco, and talk with London’s Viaduct store about chairs.
