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Extra: Collect craft and design fair
We find out about the London-based international fair for contemporary craft and design that returns to Somerset House this month.
Olympic curling, Public Practice and Sálon Cosa
We learn about the curling stones that are sliding across our screens at the Winter Olympics and hear about a new initiative that’s placing architects into municipal governments. Plus: a report from Sálon Cosa, an art and design fair in Mexico City.
Extra: Emil Dervish
Architect Emil Dervish is known for his renovation and restoration work in Kyiv, breathing new life into its Soviet-era structures. Against a backdrop of political tensions rising in the city, we meet the designer to find out how local creatives are adapting to a changing climate.
Book club
We explore a title on Swiss-influenced architecture in the US and reflect on the illustrious career of furniture designer Jens Risom. Plus: Jan Gehl’s seminal book ‘Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space’.
Extra: Mac Collins
We meet the Nottingham-born designer and artist, who is making narrative-driven furniture and has his first solo showcase at London’s Design Museum.
Bjarke Ingels’ Nabr, ‘Woman Made’, Barber Osgerby
We meet Bjarke Ingels and the team behind sustainable housing concept Nabr; check out a new lighting collaboration between Barber Osgerby and Galerie Kreo; and hear about a new book about influential women in design.
Extra: A ‘Modernist’ makeover
Graphic designer Trevor Johnson takes us through his revamp of quarterly magazine ‘The Modernist’.
Restelo, Plank, ‘dugnad’
This week we tour a Lisbon neighbourhood brimming with beautiful buildings, meet a classic Italian furniture brand that is rapidly modernising and explore the Norwegian concept of ‘dugnad’.
Extra: Canal couture
Venice’s gondoliers have a new uniform. We learn why The Woolmark Company’s high-performance merino wool is perfectly tailored for the city’s famous canals.
Menswear special
We head to Florence for Pitti Uomo and Milan for Men’s Fashion Week. Plus: we catch up with Giuseppe Santamaria, a photographer who documents street style around the globe.