All Episodes

Design on display: Es Devlin of Homo Faber on how good curation brings objects to life

Highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference and Manuel Aires Mateus on intelligent architecture

Objects that change the world for the better with designer Sébastien El Idrissi

What can designers learn from the principles of Japanese gardening?

A cut above: Allday Goods founder Hugo Worsley on reinventing the kitchen knife

Narrative design and clubbing with Pirajean Lees

Linda Boronkay on designing for the soul. Plus: late-night kebabs get a chic makeover

Interior architect Alex Holloway takes inspiration from cinema and online slang

What separates luxury interiors from the rest?

Henry Wilson’s philosophy of designing imperfection and Rolf Fehlbaum on the importance of friendship

From house to home: Fernanda Canales, Thuma’s Alec Banks and the importance of ritual with Sophie Lou Jacobsen

What does ‘good taste’ mean in interior design? The view from Tara Bernerd and Dan Rosen

How do you revive a club as historic as Paris’s Bus Palladium?

Does Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design now rival Milan Design Week?

Is imperfection becoming a trend? A view of the future from NYCxDesign 2026

Feeling over form and function: the design principles of Tola Ojuolape and Rodolfo Agrella

Redesigning London’s shared cultural spaces with Jayden Ali. Plus: Reykjavík’s DesignMarch 2026

Let’s get flexible: Mark Haydon and Kim Colin on adaptability in design

Exploring Mexico City’s thriving design landscape with Tatiana Bilbao

Modern luxury: Simone Stephens and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on living well

Monocle Design Awards 2026 with Jean-Baptiste Anotin

A sense of place with Dan Witten-Hannah and Sophie Lou Jacobsen

Deyan Sudjic on the legacy of Andrea Branzi. Plus: Designing for Artificial Life with Sacha Leong

Touring Prototype Island with Design Singapore Council

A tour around the 64th edition of Salone del Mobile

Is collectable design on the rise at Salone del Mobile? A selection of highlights from Milan Design Week 2026

The rise and rise of Brazilian design with Jig. Plus: touring the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht.

Just deserts: Exploring AlUla’s pioneering design residencies with curator Emily Marant

What is ‘Hyakkō’? A deep dive into Japan’s thriving craft scene with curator Nagata Takahiro

Simone Brewster on the narrative of objects. Plus: the Dominican Republic’s rising design scene

Matter and Shape, part two: Architecture and Genius Loci, Larger Than Life, Through the Looking Glass

Co-design and luxury hospitality: Sour’s Pinar Guvenc and GA’s Jessica Morrison on the creative process

Matter and Shape, part one: Investigating Editions, New Cultural Landscapes and Olfactory Oral

What can Korean craft teach us about our possessions? Hyo Jung Lee on her book ‘Jeong’

Do local materials make objects better? Emmie Massias on the rise of Vietnamese design

Is it time to go back to human-centred design? TF Chan on Collect 2026

New Materials: Range Rover

Honouring brand legacy with the Pantone Colour Institute and the Louis Kahn Foundation

Defining Brand: Range Rover

Japan’s future plazas with Met Team Architects and sculpture as jewellery with Giles Miller

Telling stories through design with Andu Masebo and creative studio Birch

Nichecraft and placemaking with Luca Nichetto and David Galullo

How does a city affect design? Miminat Shodeinde and Joris Laarman on process and place

Design in Dubai with ARDH Collective and Some Kind of Practice

Taking design cues from nature with Altere Studios and Tom Kundig

The best of 2025

Moving forward via tradition with Tekla. Plus: Balkrishna Doshi at the Vitra Design Museum

How to spot timeless design and make DIY chic with SCP and MG&Co

Design Miami with Jen Roberts and Moderne Gallery

Making the bed: The importance of design for our bedrooms with Thuma and Rise & Fall

Yinka Ilori and Kjetil Thorsen on the role that design can play in shaping mood and memory

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

Extra: Dharma Taylor

Obin, haptic feedback and the conclusion to our summer series

Extra: Cabin Fever 2025

Summer schools

Extra: ‘Perfection’

Supermundane, architecture and landscape and another instalment of our summer series

Extra: Who was Lorenzo Homar?

‘Pictograms’ at Japan House and Robert Wilson

Extra: Bora

‘More Than Human’, Marco Sousa Santos and Bolaji Teniola

Extra: On performing good taste

Karimoku furniture, Austrian concrete and ‘Slop Magazine’

Extra: Temitayo Ogunbiyi

The Ralph Saltzman Prize 2025, ‘Xisto’ and Bogdan Ciocodeica

Extra: Norman Foster

IKAT Indonesia, Nordic design news and Hamrei

Extra: How cars shaped modern architecture

Timber: Darren Appiagyei, Material Cultures and Oregon lumber

Extra: Lahti International Poster Triennial

3 Days of Design: Area Luce, Nau, Forma and ‘Home from Home’

Extra: ‘Eastern Blocks II: Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc’

‘The Shakers: A World in the Making’, Falé and the Hannah Ryggen Triennale

Extra: ‘Across the Spooniverse’

London Design Biennale, Finnish Glass Biennale, Art Deco in Shanghai

Extra: Mariana Ralo

Marina Tabassum, Lisbon Design Week, Dan Thawley

Extra: ‘Visibly Invisible – Artek’s Drawing Office 1936–2004’

The fabric architecture of Do Ho Suh, Romanian Design Week

Extra: Designmonat Graz

Venice Architecture Biennale – Part 2

Extra: ‘Embracing Craft, Connecting Culture’

Venice Architecture Biennale – Part 1

Extra: Inner-city Ikea

Monocle Design Awards 2025

Extra: On the Sq

'Morris Mania', Ethnicraft, MAKE Southwest

Extra: Bronze-casting in Benin City

Type and textiles

‘Future Impact 3: Design Nation’

Extra: Expo 2025 Osaka: The USA Pavilion

‘The Sculptor of Ultima Thule’

Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 2

Extra: Six N Five

Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2025 – Part 1

Extra: Finding relief

‘Living Modernity’, ‘Solar Biennale’ and ‘Splash!’

Extra: My First Sony Cassette recorder

Powerhouse, Tej Chauhan and a ‘Konfekt’ preview

Extra: Orla Kiely: ‘A Life in Pattern’

Vince Frost, ‘The Craft of Carpentry’, Mirkku Kullberg

Extra: From fashion to furniture

Matter and Shape, ‘Brutalist Japan’, Make Play