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.

  • 8 minutes 43 seconds
    ‘Rooted’

    The first solo exhibition from the British design duo, James Plumb, is on show at London’s Gallery Fumi. Hannah Plumb and James Russell discuss their development process for the sculptural lighting pieces featured.

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    21 November 2024, 1:12 pm
  • 29 minutes 51 seconds
    Sydney special

    We hear interviews from Monocle Radio’s pop-up at the UBS Australasia Conference 2024. We check-in with leading antipodean architects and interior designers on residential, hospitality and school design. Plus, how architects can work with indigenous cultures.

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    19 November 2024, 7:01 pm
  • 6 minutes 23 seconds
    Miriam Hillawi Abraham

    The Ethiopian designer and architectural researcher discusses the role of coral in her recent installation, “Material Witnesses and Narrating Lifeforms”. The project is inspired by the coral used as a construction material on the coast of East Africa and in the Gulf.

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    14 November 2024, 4:07 pm
  • 29 minutes 30 seconds
    Dubai Design Week

    Nic Monisse recaps highlights from the 10th iteration of Dubai Design Week, an event that continues to cement the city’s status as the region’s design hub. 

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    12 November 2024, 4:59 pm
  • 6 minutes 52 seconds
    ‘A Present/Absent Mudhif’

    The titular pavilion is on show as part of this year’s Dubai Design Week. The structure’s Iraq-based architect, Ola Saad Znad, discusses the shelter that is inspired by the floating houses found in the Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq. 

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    7 November 2024, 4:29 pm
  • 29 minutes 28 seconds
    November issue preview

    With our latest issue set to hit newsstands this month, we preview some of our favourite stories from a design special that features interviews with industrial designers Cecilie Manz and Ini Archibong. 

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    5 November 2024, 5:45 pm
  • 6 minutes 29 seconds
    Sheryl Leysner

    The interior-and-lighting designer, Sheryl Leysner, discusses her approach to upcycled materials and reuse in her East Amsterdam studio.

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    31 October 2024, 12:59 pm
  • 31 minutes 26 seconds
    Tallinn Architecture Biennale, formations in clay furniture, Cathay Pacific’s Aria Suites

    We report from the Tallinn Architecture Biennale and meet one of the designers behind Cathay Pacific’s new Business Class suites. Plus: an exhibition in London explores the role of ceramics in furniture design.

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    29 October 2024, 6:37 pm
  • 6 minutes 14 seconds
    Tubelight

    Boaz Cohen, co-founder of Amsterdam-based studio BCXSY, shares the development process behind the Tubelight, the practice’s playful, award-winning take on fluorescent lights. 

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    24 October 2024, 3:35 pm
  • 30 minutes 44 seconds
    Rooms Studio, Ghost Signs, ‘Zaha Hadid: Paper Museums’

    We visit a design practice in Tbilisi, take a tour of faded signs of east London with Sam Roberts and learn about paper models at the Zaha Hadid Foundation.

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    22 October 2024, 4:59 pm
  • 8 minutes 37 seconds
    Mobile Phone Museum

    We meet the co-founder of the virtual Mobile Phone Museum to discuss the rich history and design diversity of these portable devices.

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    17 October 2024, 2:04 pm
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