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Nuova at Milan Design Week:

Rodrigo Caula and Enrico Pietra are the co-founders of Nuova, a California-based research and innovation luxury-design practice. At this year’s Milan Design Week, they took over Milanese bistro Via Stampa for their immersive installation emulating 1970s Americana.

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★	18 Apr 2024 7 min	Nuova at Milan Design Week Rodrigo Caula and Enrico Pietra are the co-founders of Nuova, a California-based research and innovation luxury-design practice. At this year’s Milan Design Week, they took over Milanese bistro Via Stampa for their immersive installation emulating 1970s Americana.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
653	16 Apr 2024 30 min	Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile, part 1 We’re in Italy for Milan Design Week. At our pop-up Monocle Radio studio we meet Giopato & Coombes, Matteo Thun, Yves Béhar and Orior Furniture’s Ciaran McGuigan.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	11 Apr 2024 5 min	The FDC1 armchair The sculptural lounge chair fashioned from powder-coated steel and leather has had a revival thanks to French furniture brand Objekto. Stella Roos considers its history – and its designer – Brazilian architect and artist Flávio de Carvalho.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
652	9 Apr 2024 28 min	Marion Stora, Spacon & X, The Good Plastic Company We meet French interior architect and furniture designer Marion Stora and the founders of multidisciplinary studio Spacon & X to discuss their collaborations with fashion. Plus: The Good Plastic company shares how we might use recycled forms of this much-maligned material.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	4 Apr 2024 3 min	Two-wheel oasis Grace Charlton reflects on a recent trip to Amsterdam – a city often hailed as an oasis, where those on two wheels rule the streets. But does this emphasis on bikes make traversing the metropolis any better for pedestrians?	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
651	2 Apr 2024 29 min	Designing for timelessness: Part 1 Nic Monisse presents highlights from recent panels held at V-Zug shops in London and Hong Kong. Architects and designers discuss the notion of timelessness and how this informs their practice.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	28 Mar 2024 4 min	Finland’s forests Why does timber perform a key role in the country’s economy and how has the raw material shaped the nation’s creativity and furniture-making? Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent, Petri Burtsoff, joins Nic Monisse to discuss.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
650	26 Mar 2024 30 min	Jewellery special We meet Los Angeles-based jeweller Suzanne Kalan and renowned designer Ileana Makri in Athens. We also speak with Fernando Jorge, who shares details about his travelling exhibition with Sotheby’s.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	21 Mar 2024 8 min	‘Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher’ An exhibition at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco delves into the improvisational and playful processes of Bay Area printer Jack Stauffacher, who demonstrated the creative potential of the letterpress.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
649	19 Mar 2024 29 min	John Pomp, Marina Raphael, Maxime d’Angeac Glassblower John Pomp and luxury bag designer Marina Raphael join us in the studio. Plus: we meet Maxime d’Angeac, the architect reinterpreting the historic Orient Express.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	14 Mar 2024 3 min	Bland rebrand Writer Grace Charlton laments why boring redesigns often rob cafés, restaurants and homes of a sense of place.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
648	12 Mar 2024 29 min	Richard Erdman’s studio, Jayden Ali, wool and leather We visit a sculptor’s studio in Vermont and meet UK architect and exhibition designer Jayden Ali. Plus: we discuss the benefits of wool and leather with two Canadian brands.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	7 Mar 2024 9 min	Collect We visit the contemporary craft and design fair celebrating its 20th anniversary at Somerset House.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
647	5 Mar 2024 30 min	Maggie’s, ‘100 Women: Architects in Practice’ Maggie’s centres have provided cancer care in uplifting, design-led architectural environments for the past 28 years. We visit the newest site designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. Plus: a new title from the Royal Institute of British Architects profiles practising women architects. Tom Ravenscroft and Monika Parrinder, the book’s co-authors, join Nic Monisse in the studio.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play
★	29 Feb 2024 6 min	‘Suspended Disbelief’ The late sculptor and furniture maker Wendell Castle is the focus of an exhibition at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London.	Download Share X Facebook LinkedIn LINE Email	Play

Design / Podcast

Monocle on Design

Latest episode

Latest episodes

Nuova at Milan Design Week

Milan Design Week and Salone del Mobile, part 1

The FDC1 armchair

Marion Stora, Spacon & X, The Good Plastic Company

Two-wheel oasis

Designing for timelessness: Part 1

Finland’s forests

Jewellery special

‘Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher’

John Pomp, Marina Raphael, Maxime d’Angeac

Bland rebrand

Richard Erdman’s studio, Jayden Ali, wool and leather

Collect

Maggie’s, ‘100 Women: Architects in Practice’

‘Suspended Disbelief’