2025-02-05
29 分钟Foreign.
This is Monocle on Design, a show where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and graphics.
I'm Nick Minice.
On today's program, the founder of a modernist archive shares why this building style still appeals.
Today, we visit a contemporary craft exhibition in the English Midlands.
Plus, we preview some design stories in Monocle magazine's February issue.
All that coming up on Monocle On Design.
We start today in the United States, where we hear from George Smart.
He's the executive director and founder of US Modernist,
the world's largest online resource for modernist residential architecture.
Serving as an archive for information about modernist houses,
it offers an extensive library of publications dating back 130 years.
It's quite the resource.
George joined us to discuss this repository and its importance today
and what new executive orders from the White House could mean for this architectural style.
When you walk into a mid century modernist house, it immediately feels different than going into a conventional house.
Not that it's any better necessarily.
It's just different.
And that vibe is more relaxed, more open.
You feel like you're really connecting with the space.