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
Can luxury and digital technology coexist?
The design series is presented by Monocle’s design editor Hugo Macdonald and focuses on global design, architecture, fashion and graphics.
Pep Torres’s favourite forms
We head to the annual Design Parade at Hyères, talk to Pep Torres about his favourite forms and look at Singaporean graphics with Hanson Ho.
Architecture and wellbeing
David Burney on how architecture can improve wellbeing, we visit an ambassador residency in Wellington and enjoy sporting posters at the Russian embassy in London.
Powering devices, cake churches and environmental energy
Electronic devices powered by humans, a method of furniture production that puts energy back into the environment and the thinking behind a giant cake church.
Milan’s vertical forest
Urban improvement: why Zürich is Monocle’s favourite city, Stefano Boeri discusses “vertical forest” apartments in Milan and we learn about the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Round-up of the world’s design fairs
A trip to the world’s design fairs: DesignMiami at Art Basel, NeoCon 2012 in Chicago and Berlin’s DMY festival show off their wares.
Antwerp Fashion special
Antwerp Fashion special: we attend the Royal Academy graduation show, chat to Walter van Beirendonck and talk with jury member Penny Martin of The Gentlewoman.
Mid-century furniture at Lord’s Cricket Ground
A chat with Thomas Heatherwick at the V&A, we visit a mid-century furniture show at Lord’s Cricket Ground and stop by Clerkenwell Design Week.
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.
