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Latest Episodes
Saturday night’s alright: bar design
How do you design a venue to last? We head backstage at London mainstay Ronnie Scott’s. Plus: a hospitality consultant giving restaurants and bars their hum from Copacabana to the Black Forest and the week’s design headlines.
On Design 80: Merging markets
In an industry where heritage matters, what happens when a much-loved brand is bought by another company with its own history? Monocle’s design editor Nolan Giles reflects on the occasion of US furniture giant Knoll’s purchase of Danish brand Muuto.
Slow retail
In a world of fast fashion, Venetian brand Slowear’s CEO speaks out on the importance of taking one’s time. Plus: Monocle’s Jamie Waters on Milan and Paris’s respective fashion weeks and highlights from Madrid’s inaugural Design Festival.
On Design 79: Go long
Can long-form design journalism thrive and shape debates in the internet age? ‘Disegno’ editor in chief Oli Stratford impresses upon us his view that print still matters.
Divine provenance
With the hows and wheres of production more important than ever, we bag an interview with Swedish accessories brand Sandqvist and design journalist Katie Tregidden. Plus: why gloomy headlines aren’t dampening the spirits of Greece’s native makers.
On Design 78: Into the ring
With the Winter Olympic Games well underway in Pyeongchang, sports writer and journalist David Goldblatt tells us why there’s much more to Olympic design than the famous rings (though they’re a good place to start).
Moomin on up
We sit down with the creative director of the Moomins brand who’s teamed up with a notable London retailer to create a design-minded shop touting these lovable trolls to a new generation. We also hear from Monocle’s Design editor who delivers a digest of Stockholm Design Week.
On Design 77: Cabinets of curiosity
We press the editors of ‘McGuffin’ magazine on the subject of cabinets, the humble piece of furniture around which they’ve based the latest issue.
Checking in at the Muji Hotel
Can Japanese retailer Muji’s first hotel set a new standard for minimally designed stop-overs? We check in with Satoru Matsuzaki, president of Ryohin Keikaku, which owns the Muji. Plus: a tour of Danish firm Carl Hansen & Søn’s new Stockholm flagship and the New York exhibition dedicated to architect-designed furniture.
On Design 76: Hard-headed design
As the US gears up for Super Bowl Sunday, Monocle’s contributing Editor Andrew Mueller takes a closer look at an object at the centre of debates about the future of the NFL: the American football helmet.
