Monocle on Design
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The future of fashion retail
We take a look at fashion start-up Farfetch’s plans to harness digital data to change bricks-and-mortar shopping. Plus, we explore the often hidden interiors of Singapore’s ubiquitous HDB housing blocks, talk mobile architecture and meet a San Francisco designer doing technology differently.
On Design 37: Who was Josef Frank?
Stockholm’s design chops are much touted but one practitioner from Austria helped shape the scene more than most locals. Josh Fehnert explores the legacy of the late Josef Frank.
Hit the lights: more from Salone del Mobile 2017
We round off our coverage of this year’s edition of Salone del Mobile with a look at some of the Milanese design fair’s more conceptual exhibits.
On Design 36: Can Toronto’s signs show the way forward?
Breakneck development is straining Toronto’s already splintered visual identity. But could the city’s signage point the way to blending its past with its future? Monocle’s Toronto bureau chief Tomos Lewis reports.
Salone del Mobile 2017
The world’s biggest interior design fair wrapped up last week in Milan. In this episode we bring you a report from the show, including conversations with some of the biggest names in design.
On Design 35: Has Hario brewed the perfect coffee-dripper?
In a world of increasingly complex kitchen contraptions, Japanese glassware maestro Hario proves that less can be more with the right design and materials. Monocle 24’s Bill Leuty looks into the history of the brand and pays tribute to his favourite product: the V60.
Apogee architecture
We speak to the photographer behind a book documenting the modernist architecture of Palm Springs under the light of the full moon. We also tour the new home of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and our Tokyo bureau chief Fiona Wilson gives us her Japanese…
On Design 34: Who were the women of the Bauhaus?
The Bauhaus art and design school preached equality but who’s heard of Lucia Maholy and Marianne Brandt? Design journalist Katie Treggiden digs deeper.
Home truths
We visit the Barbican Centre for a new show on postwar domestic architecture in Japan and jump up and down on the beds at Jerusalem’s first design hotel. Plus: a closer look at fashion brand Vetements’ decision to ditch Paris for Zürich.
On Design 33: How do you build for a tropical climate?
The architectural style tropical modernism is often cited but just as often misattributed. This week Monocle’s Istanbul bureau chief Chris Lord tells us about its unlikely roots and development.
