Monocle on Design

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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.

Episode Date
Moving forward via tradition with Tekla. Plus: Balkrishna Doshi at the Vitra Design Museum
Dec 23, 2025
How to spot timeless design and make DIY chic with SCP and MG&Co
Dec 16, 2025
Design Miami with Jen Roberts and Moderne Gallery
Dec 09, 2025
Making the bed: The importance of design for our bedrooms with Thuma and Rise & Fall
Dec 02, 2025
Yinka Ilori and Kjetil Thorsen on the role that design can play in shaping mood and memory  
Nov 25, 2025
The aesthetics of functionality with Nifemi Marcus Bello and Wes Anderson
Nov 18, 2025
‘Designers on Sofas’ special: Why the couch is so often overlooked, with Ilse Crawford and Eran Chen
Nov 11, 2025
Rethinking timekeeping for the 21st century with luxury watchmakers Ressence 
Nov 04, 2025
Frieze Connect’s Charlene Prempeh on the unexpected effects of good art and design
Oct 28, 2025
‘A fingerprint isn’t a flaw’: Michael Anastassiades on the art of small details
Oct 21, 2025
Extra: ‘Bad Language’
Oct 20, 2025
Driving Forward: Range Rover
Oct 16, 2025
Lessons learned
Oct 14, 2025
Extra: St Wolfgang station, home to the Schafberg cog railway
Oct 09, 2025
Artek at 90, Michael Bennett and Dennis Cheung
Oct 07, 2025
Extra: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Oct 02, 2025
British Ceramics Biennial, October issue preview and Vienna Design Week
Sep 30, 2025
Extra: Emre Arolat  
Sep 25, 2025
London Design Festival, Studio Brière and Katie Treggiden    
Sep 23, 2025
Extra: POV Budapest 
Sep 18, 2025
Helsinki Design Week at 20, London’s Open House Festival and Zurich Design Weeks
Sep 16, 2025
Extra: Willie Williams  
Sep 11, 2025
Quality of Life Conference design round-up
Sep 09, 2025
Extra: Hyu Lim 
Sep 04, 2025
World Design Congress and the ‘Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings’ exhibition
Sep 02, 2025
Extra: Dharma Taylor
Aug 28, 2025
Obin, haptic feedback and the conclusion to our summer series 
Aug 26, 2025
Extra: Cabin Fever 2025
Aug 21, 2025
Summer schools
Aug 19, 2025
Extra: ‘Perfection’
Aug 14, 2025
Supermundane, architecture and landscape and another instalment of our summer series
Aug 12, 2025
Extra: Who was Lorenzo Homar?
Aug 07, 2025
‘Pictograms’ at Japan House and Robert Wilson
Aug 05, 2025
Extra: Bora 
Jul 31, 2025
‘More Than Human’, Marco Sousa Santos and Bolaji Teniola
Jul 29, 2025
Extra: On performing good taste
Jul 24, 2025
Karimoku furniture, Austrian concrete and ‘Slop Magazine’
Jul 22, 2025
Extra: Temitayo Ogunbiyi  
Jul 17, 2025
The Ralph Saltzman Prize 2025, ‘Xisto’ and Bogdan Ciocodeica
Jul 15, 2025
Extra: Norman Foster  
Jul 10, 2025
IKAT Indonesia, Nordic design news and Hamrei   
Jul 08, 2025
Extra: How cars shaped modern architecture 
Jul 03, 2025
Timber: Darren Appiagyei, Material Cultures and Oregon lumber
Jul 01, 2025
Extra: Lahti International Poster Triennial
Jun 26, 2025
3 Days of Design: Area Luce, Nau, Forma and ‘Home from Home’
Jun 24, 2025
Extra: ‘Eastern Blocks II: Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc’
Jun 19, 2025
‘The Shakers: A World in the Making’, Falé and the Hannah Ryggen Triennale   
Jun 17, 2025
Extra: ‘Across the Spooniverse’  
Jun 12, 2025
London Design Biennale, Finnish Glass Biennale, Art Deco in Shanghai
Jun 10, 2025
Extra: Mariana Ralo
Jun 05, 2025
Marina Tabassum, Lisbon Design Week, Dan Thawley
Jun 03, 2025
Extra: ‘Visibly Invisible – Artek’s Drawing Office 1936–2004’
May 29, 2025
The fabric architecture of Do Ho Suh, Romanian Design Week
May 27, 2025
Extra: Designmonat Graz
May 22, 2025
Venice Architecture Biennale – Part 2
May 20, 2025
Extra: ‘Embracing Craft, Connecting Culture’
May 15, 2025
Venice Architecture Biennale – Part 1
May 13, 2025
Extra: Inner-city Ikea
May 08, 2025
Monocle Design Awards 2025 
May 06, 2025
Extra: On the Sq
May 01, 2025
'Morris Mania', Ethnicraft, MAKE Southwest
Apr 29, 2025
Extra: Bronze-casting in Benin City
Apr 24, 2025
Type and textiles
Apr 22, 2025
‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’
Apr 18, 2025
Extra: Expo 2025 Osaka: The USA Pavilion 
Apr 17, 2025
‘The Sculptor of Ultima Thule’
Apr 16, 2025
Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 2
Apr 15, 2025
Extra: Six N Five
Apr 10, 2025
Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 1
Apr 08, 2025
Extra: Finding relief 
Apr 03, 2025
‘Living Modernity’, ‘Solar Biennale’ and ‘Splash!’
Apr 01, 2025
Extra: My First Sony Cassette recorder 
Mar 27, 2025
Powerhouse, Tej Chauhan and a ‘Konfekt’ preview
Mar 25, 2025
Extra: Orla Kiely: ‘A Life in Pattern’
Mar 20, 2025
Vince Frost, ‘The Craft of Carpentry’, Mirkku Kullberg
Mar 18, 2025
Extra: From fashion to furniture
Mar 13, 2025
Matter and Shape, ‘Brutalist Japan’, Make Play
Mar 11, 2025
Extra: ‘About Consuming Books: The Nijhof & Lee Collection’
Mar 06, 2025
Collect 2025, Christopher Dresser, Jaipur Rugs and Shyam Ahuja 
Mar 04, 2025
Extra: Madrid Design Festival 2025
Feb 27, 2025
Design Biennale Rotterdam
Feb 25, 2025
Extra: Diary at the ready  
Feb 20, 2025
‘Soane and Modernism: Make it New’, ‘The Brutalist’ and County Hall Pottery
Feb 18, 2025
Extra: Yrjö Kukkapuro 
Feb 13, 2025
Stockholm Design Week, Zona Maco Diseño
Feb 11, 2025
Extra: ‘Distillation of Architecture’  
Feb 06, 2025
George Smart, ‘Made in the Middle’ and our Feb issue
Feb 04, 2025
Extra: Echoes of the past
Jan 30, 2025
Nanna Ditzel, architectural acoustics and Mylands
Jan 28, 2025
Extra: Maison&Objet: Niwar
Jan 23, 2025
Maison&Objet
Jan 21, 2025
Extra: ‘Lester Beall & A New American Identity’
Jan 16, 2025
Clay special
Jan 14, 2025
Extra: ‘Never At Home’
Jan 14, 2025
Film special
Jan 07, 2025
A fresh start
Dec 31, 2024
The best of 2024
Dec 24, 2024
Extra: Highlights from the year
Dec 19, 2024
Christmas special
Dec 17, 2024
Extra: Contemporary architecture in Chiang Mai  
Dec 12, 2024