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Monocle on Design - Collect
7 March 2024
We visit the contemporary craft and design fair celebrating its 20th anniversary at Somerset House.
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The Stack - Fantastic print
9 June 2018
The creative director of ‘Fantastic Man’, a new exhibition on the power of indie print at Somerset House and ‘Hodinkee’, the bible of watches.
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Monocle on Design - Extra: Collect craft and design fair
17 February 2022
We find out about the London-based international fair for contemporary craft and design that returns to Somerset House this month.
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The Monocle Arts Review - Photography: Sue Steward
27 April 2015
Sue Steward runs us through some of this month’s photography highlights in London including the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, ‘Skate Girls of Kabul’ by Jessica Fulford-Dobson at the Saatchi…
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Monocle on Design - London Design Biennale
8 June 2021
The team touches down at the London Design Biennale at Somerset House. We speak to this year’s artistic director Es Devlin and the curators and designers behind the Ghanaian, French, Chilean and African Diaspora pavilions…
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The Recap - News and analysis highlights
26 September 2015
We air a live broadcast from Somerset House, hear from Nato’s Jen Stoltenberg in Ukraine and discuss China’s attempts to win over the US tech market.
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Monocle on Design - Curating Valentino
15 January 2013
A report on menswear from Pitti Uomo in Florence, we sit down with the curator of the Valentino: Master of Couture retrospective at Somerset House and hear from architect Peter Besley of Assemblage – designers of the new…
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The Stack - ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ and ‘Beano’
6 November 2021
This week on ‘The Stack’ we speak with Lydia Slater, editor in chief of the UK edition of ‘Harper’s Bazaar’. Plus: we visit a new exhibition about iconic comic strip ‘Beano’ at Somerset House.
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Monocle on Culture - Mushrooms: the art, design and future of fungi
3 February 2020
Curator Francesca Gavin takes Monocle’s very own fun-guy, Robert Bound, on a tour of her new mushroom exhibition at Somerset House, which explores the ways fungi have been used in art.
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The Monocle Daily - Finland’s elections and the ICJ’s Gaza ruling
26 January 2024
We hear from Markus Hippi on Finland’s presidential elections, Georgina Godwin on the Hay Festival in Cartagena and Andrew Mueller on Australia Day arguments. Plus: the ICJ’s ruling on Gaza, a North American round-up and…
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Meet the Writers - Adam Nicolson
15 September 2019
Towards the end of the 1790s, Coleridge and Wordsworth – then young, aspiring poets – lived in Somerset, dreaming of a world changed by poetry. Adam Nicolson spent a year living there so that he could fully explore the…
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The Monocle Arts Review - Art: Peter York
27 July 2015
Cultural commentator and writer Peter York talks Robert Bound through an exhibition about British punk band The Jam at Somerset House and a retrospective of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures at Tate Modern. Plus: as cartoonist…
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Monocle on Culture - Behind the scenes with PJ Harvey
12 January 2015
Documentary-maker Fred Wiseman introduces new film 'National Gallery', the team behind PJ Harvey’s upcoming album recording at Somerset House drop by and we speak to photo journalist Julius Schrank. Plus we assess a gay art…