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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is Monocle on Design, a show where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and fashion.
I'm Nick Moniz.
On today's program, it's a design special.
We talk sofas and hear from designers including Cecily Mance and Ini Archibong.
All that coming up on Monocle On Design.
Hello and welcome to Monocle On Design.
I'm Nick Moniz and I'm joined in the studio by Grace Charlton.
I just figured we'd do something different.
Have you introduced yourself?
Grace Charlton.
But we're here to preview the November issue which is a design special.
Both heavily involved in pulling this together, but to kick off proceedings, maybe we should hear from our boss, Andrew Tuck more Chronicle's Editor in Chief who recorded this lovely column musing on the importance of the sofa.
It was 18 years ago that we went to the BNB Italia store on the Brompton Road in Knightsbridge and bought a sofa a Harry.
We had it covered in a dark gray fabric to contend with the paw prints of our then hound, Bruno the Weimaraner.
Somehow, come delivery day, the team actually managed to manoeuvre Harry up the stairs like some reluctant to be budged drunk and deposited him in the first floor sitting room.
To be clear, he's actually rather svelte and his legs can be unscrewed.
It's just that our London mews home is a bit dinky.
Harry is the guest who stayed.
As I write this from the comfort of an armchair, he's stretched out in front of me, not a care in the world.
Unsurprisingly, over that 18 year arc, he's needed a bit of work to maintain his looks.