Episodes

  • Extra: ‘Bad Language’
    Oct 16 2025

    Photographer Max Creasy discusses the relationship between architecture and pictures, and his new exhibition at the Architectural Association in London.

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    31 mins
  • What can designers learn from the principles of Japanese gardening?
    Aug 25 2026

    Niwaki founder Jake Hobson on why Japanese garden shears demonstrate the key to good design. Plus: Ferrari shocks critics. And: the joy of luxury stationery.

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    29 mins
  • Objects that change the world for the better with designer Sébastien El Idrissi
    Sep 1 2026

    Is the term “industrial design” frowned upon by design purists? Zürich-based Sébastien El Idrissi thinks so. He joins Nic Monisse to discuss why his goal is positive change at an industrial scale. Plus: what to look forward to at our Quality of Life Conference in Lisbon this year.

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    31 mins
  • Highlights from Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference and Manuel Aires Mateus on intelligent architecture
    Sep 8 2026

    At Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference in Lisbon, we catch up with one of Portugal’s foremost architects, Manuel Aires Mateus. Plus: highlights from the conference at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

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    31 mins
  • A cut above: Allday Goods founder Hugo Worsley on reinventing the kitchen knife
    Aug 18 2026

    Chef-turned-CEO Hugo Worsley tells us why design-lovers are obsessed with Allday Goods’ knives. Plus: Australia’s new census puts design on the map and why your next hotel stay should be the Chesa Grischuna in Klosters.

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    31 mins
  • Narrative design and clubbing with Pirajean Lees
    Aug 11 2026

    Clémence Pirajean and James Lees tell us about how narratives are essential to designing luxury interiors well. Plus: cooling off with design-thinking and the architecture of clubs.

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    28 mins
  • Linda Boronkay on designing for the soul. Plus: late-night kebabs get a chic makeover
    Aug 4 2026

    Hungarian designer Linda Boronkay on crafting hospitality interiors that ‘nourish the soul’. Then: Nic Monisse and Grace Charlton on luxury kebabs, animism and the object in their house that they would save first.

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    32 mins
  • Interior architect Alex Holloway takes inspiration from cinema and online slang
    Jul 28 2026

    Alex Holloway, of interior architecture studio Holloway Li, on drawing inspiration from cinema aesthetics and online slang. Plus: a review of Sicilian architecture and travel etiquette.

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    29 mins