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
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.
Minimalism with John Pawson
Minimalist architect John Pawson joins in the studio, we look at the roles of women in post-war textiles and Poppy Shibamoto discusses furniture.
Design’s financial footprint
How designers are tightening budgets and reducing consumption, we meet a young architect in Washington and visit New Delhi to hear about Indian design.
