Monocle on Design
Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world’s most exciting studios.
Latest Episode
Yinka Ilori and Kjetil Thorsen on the role that design can play in shaping mood and memory (25.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The aesthetics of functionality with Nifemi Marcus Bello and Wes Anderson
- ‘Designers on Sofas’ special: Why the couch is so often overlooked, with Ilse Crawford and Eran Chen
- Rethinking timekeeping for the 21st century with luxury watchmakers Ressence
- Frieze Connect’s Charlene Prempeh on the unexpected effects of good art and design
- ‘A fingerprint isn’t a flaw’: Michael Anastassiades on the art of small details
- Extra: ‘Bad Language’
- Driving Forward: Range Rover
- Lessons learned
- Extra: St Wolfgang station, home to the Schafberg cog railway
- Artek at 90, Michael Bennett and Dennis Cheung
- Extra: Dulwich Picture Gallery
- British Ceramics Biennial, October issue preview and Vienna Design Week
- Extra: Emre Arolat
- London Design Festival, Studio Brière and Katie Treggiden
- Extra: POV Budapest
- Helsinki Design Week at 20, London’s Open House Festival and Zurich Design Weeks
- Extra: Willie Williams
- Quality of Life Conference design round-up
- Extra: Hyu Lim
- World Design Congress and the ‘Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings’ exhibition
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