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"Stockholm, we find out how Gustav's work may be more in line with his Scandinavian roots than one might think. Over to Monaco's Gabriela de la sante for more. So we moved in here in this space one and a half month ago. And it's located in southern Marlin in Stockholm, which is like the nicest part of Stockholm, I think, where I hang out and where I live. So we were looking for a space here for a long time. I meet Swedish designer gustave westman as he adds the finishing touches to his new showroom and studio space and Stockholm. It is spread across one main room with wide windows overlooking the snow covered streets. The space is large and airy, and it is dotted with many of its creations. From oddly shaped side tables to pillowy armchairs and colorful mirrors, leaning against the wall. We're going to use this space as a mainly an office, but it's also going to be like a showroom where you can come visit and eventually maybe a store as well. It took west man just a few years to make a name for himself in Sweden and beyond through his colorful universe of playful designs. Westman hails from western Sweden and studied architecture in Gothenburg. The country's second city. He started his studio in 2020 after one of his bespoke designs created for a local project, garnered the attention of a Swedish stylist. The piece is a boxy mirror that features a distinctive wavy wooden frame in varying colors. It went on to become one of westman's best known designs, which can be found in homes of celebrities and design of asos around the world. Yeah, this mirror really took me on a journey and I'm very happy for it. There's some surreal people that I've been a fan of for a very long time that has this mirror in their home and it's like, it's just really nice and yeah, I'm very happy for it. As we talk, he pours a cup of filter coffee in one of his most recent designs, the so called chunky cup. It is handmade in glazed ceramic and painted in a range of pastel hues. The piece most notably is placed in a big and bulky saucer, which makes the mug look like it's held by an inflated ring. He came up with the design simply because he would often spill coffee when carrying a manga around with him, and this saucer is cleverly designed to prevent it. The mug has all the elements of the design language that westman has created for himself. Characterized by abundant color and original forms. He defines it as one that is easy to understand. Every object is crafted from just a handful of materials in just one color and with clearly defined shape. So usually people tend to categorize my design as non Scandinavian. And I mean, I understand that how I present my objects, like all together in my pictures and stuff like that. It's a lot of colors. It's a lot of shapes. It's a lot going on. And that's basically maximalism. And Scandinavian design is often compared to minimalism. So I guess in that case, it's not very Scandinavian, but in the same time, if you look at Scandinavian design tradition, it's often like few elements, a few materials, I don't know, which example I should tape like alto, for example. It's like typical Scandinavian design is like often just one material, like just one type of wood. And it's the same thing with my design if you just look at the objects. I try to kind of stick to the core of my idea and try to understand what is the idea of this object. And then I only try to do that thing. So like for example, my shank table that I have a lot of, it's just a table with a round edge, and that's everything happening within the table. The tabletop is around edge, the leg has around edge, and then there's one color. It's pretty simple. Lastly, we discussed the production of his designs, a topic that westman has at heart. Ever since his work gained traction and orders started trickling in. He made sure to keep the production of all of his pieces in Sweden. The only exception is the mug which is handmade by skilled ceramists in Portugal. For him, keeping production local is as much about supporting Swedish woodworkers and craftspeople, as it is about learning and having conversations about how his designs ultimately come to life. This business basically started in the spring 2020 and you know what happened in the spring 2020. It was during the pandemic. So we couldn't really go far. Like you couldn't even, it could basically not leave Sweden. So that's when we found the relationships to the people to the woodworkers and carpenters doing our stuff. And it's been really nice to have them close. And of course, it's nice to work with local producers and local material, but it's also very nice to have this close connection to them personally to go it's just like half an hour away and you can go there talk to them, they can show me material and we can work together and I mean I like to I always work with my with my carpenters from a very early stage and they're a big part of the design and production and I ask them and I mean they know so much about what they're doing. So it's probably more interesting for me to hear what they have to say about the products. I mean, I do the design and the shape and the color but when it comes to the technical parts, it's a collaboration I would say. From sudirman in Stockholm for monocle? Like thanks to Gabriela de la Santo for that report. And that's all for this week if you're eager for more design stories, then listen to our full length program monocle on design, airing on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. London time. Or if you prefer print, then pick up a copy of monocle magazine on all good news stance now. Today's episode was produced by me, melee Evans, with editing help from Adam heaton. Thank you for listening.
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"Is a Ukrainian shoe brand that has been designing and manufacturing footwear since 1957. With the ongoing Russian inversion of Ukraine, we were curious as to what the challenges the country's designers and makers, who chose to remain, were facing. To discuss this and more, Elena katys, the company's creative director and third generation footwear designer, joined monocles Andre Nikolai pamintuan down the line from Keith. She began by sharing her she started at the company. I just grew a mom that shoemaker. So when it was just the beginning and I was something like 5 years old and my mother she was just starting it like an entrepreneurship as a business. We had a big big kitchen in our House. One side of the kitchen where my grandmother was cooking food and another part was with a sewing machine. And cutting pieces of the ladder. So me and my brother were helping my mom to cut some pieces of leather when we had just kids, because it was tough times, always in Ukraine. Especially first ten years after we got independence because we've been left with nothing. After the Soviet Union had ended, I mean, as a country. And people were not paid salaries to add their jobs as my mom was, et cetera, et cetera. So really, really tough times. And right now, when we have no electricity, I came back in my memory to my childhood because we also got no electricity very often, but the reasons were different because of no money in the government. And now because of the Russian rockets. So that's how it was. And I was just growing among the shoemakers among the smell of the glue and on the smell of the leather. And when I was like 14, for me, it was so obvious, you know, how to make shoes, how it's done, what is the technology, et cetera. So I just grew up with it. And you talked about it just a few moments ago. Your situation now in Ukraine brings back memories to what was then the fall of the USSR, essentially. I want to know what has been the impact of this war to small businesses like yours. It feels today I thought that we lost everything and forever. So first half of the year was very hard because when we restarted the business when we restarted the processes it was two weeks after the worst started then we realized that we could do something and we restart it like starting from online sales in our company. And before the war we had 170 employees so we have also had a huge responsibility for our in place and then by baby steps you now step by step, it was like being born again. When we restarted all the processes, it was based or also a huge experience. So could you imagine when you've been born like a baby? But you already lived 30 years in this world. So that's what something like this. In terms of logistics, what has been the major challenges travel has been shifted by land and there's still no flights in and out of Ukraine. What has it been like? Yesterday, I came back from a business trip abroad. So I've been in Paris for today's then in Italy on my favorite factories for today's. And it got me like 30 hours to get back to Kyiv and I was 30 hours in road playing train bus, car, just to get back to my native city. I was actually sick of it. Even when I was starting to think about this trip I brought and I need to go abroad because we are trying to build like many, many, many things, and it is a part of our routine, actually, to go to our Italian factories for the development of the components. To go to the international affairs, but yes, this is a little complicated moment. That's why I had to have four trips abroad during a month, but I canceled two of them because I understood that I am not ready to go. In the beginning of the war, yes, of course. But now no. Is there an influx of orders and support from the international market? I know you're really working hard to sort of promote your business. At the beginning of the world, we really started receiving orders from people abroad, and we saw it only in two weeks after the war started that people from Japan and USA Canada Czech Republic, et cetera, made orders on our website and it was obvious that it was just support. Now I would say like our local customers Ukrainian customers, they totally and fully came back to us. So we are kind of the same level of sales on a local market like it was before the war. Our ambitions on the international market, we would love to become one of the key players in the fashion food industry for the future. Elena kaczorowska there, she was in conversation with Monaco's Andre Nikolai Peninsula. And that's all for today's show. For more design stories, listen to our 5 minute midweek bonus show, monocle on design extra, which airs on Thursdays. And if you enjoy print, then do pick up a copy of monocle magazine as well. It's on all good news stands now. Today's episode was produced by maile Evans. I'm Nick manis, and you can reach me on NM at Monaco dot com. Thanks for listening.
Monocle 24: Section D
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"It's back to Paris now, but we're looking further than Maison roger and heading to gallery senior, which is hosting an exhibition of work by Marie and Alexandra. They're two young, up and coming French designers. So I went and paid the gallery a visit to look at their work and have a chat to the two of them and I guess sort of unpack how their work straddles this line between art and design. Their current show called iris involved, making pieces with craftsmen from across the country. And I guess I really enjoyed my conversation with them, which was sort of about how they approach working with craftsmen and that relationship between the designer and somebody who has a skill set in making. Let's hear a little bit of that conversation with Marie and Alexandria at gallery senior. Our process is to work with artisan craftsmen. We worked with anonymous ceramic with a factory of clay in South of France and there were like super open and super easy. The idea was not to stop their work, but just to try some way to work together. These are the sculptural pieces that we sort of have around us. That were made in that factory. Yeah, exactly. We work with blowing glass in beats. And so we try more to work with a lot of people because our work is to work with people and try to find a good match between them because especially with this exhibition there is Christoph Saba who made the glass. We made the clay. What's the benefit of bringing all these different crafts people together? Would they typically work together or are you sort of having a uniting force connecting them? We think that it's really important to try to mix a lot of different materiality and a way of working. And so we are trying to do that with all the material that we are working with on specifically because we are designer. We try to understand materiality of ceramic of work of food and trying more to multiplay is the sensation of material. So is it also you go to these crafts people and they teach you a little bit about the materials and then you interpret that and turn it into your own work. Is that a correct understanding? Yes, exactly. You don't want to go in and know everything you want to be at that beginner level. What's the benefit of not knowing everything or not fully understanding how something's made and instead going and perhaps a little bit deliberately naively? You have too much knowledge in technical, you can't have the work necessary and so you make too much time. So they are the super artist and we work with yeah, we don't want to take them work and we want to work with them to make a new things for them. They can use also our research. I guess you come in not paying way down by the complexity of years of experience. Exactly. And you come in with, I guess, a bit more, maybe not clarity, but you're almost bring clarity to them by showing them, hey, this is how we see it. There's a benefit there for both of you. They give us a lot of things, and we are trying not to give, but to be like in a discussion. And they can take a lot of things from us to many just present things already exist and here we are beginning three months ago with nothing. It's a good challenge and now we have to find some new artisan new material in school because it's open for us and multiplayer our knowledge and our possibility of object finally speaking about the possibility of objects in the last three months. What have you learned about ceramics or mirrors or light through this experimenting and research process and that's ultimately resulted in these pieces? It was the first time that we were leather stone so it was like a very good surprise work about colors too because we tried a lot of mixture to find like good colors and with the colors of Allan bag two. This is like maybe the first things, but in the second time for me it was like how to combine and how to deal with the different material, how to fix them together to create a discussion between the material. There is something very physical for us in our work. We think that we find maybe something in the composition when we are making things. It's all about bodies and how to scope how to cut maybe that was the main point of our exhibition. The designers Marie and Alexandre. Their exhibition, iris is on it gallery senior until the 25th of February 2023. And my thanks to Natalie for joining me in the studio. That's all for today's show. For more design stories, listen to our 5 minute midweek bonus show, monocle on design extra, which airs on Thursdays. And if you enjoy print, then do pick up a copy of monocle magazine as well. It's on all good news stands now. Today's episode was produced and edited by melee Evans. I'm Nick manis, and you can reach me on NM at Monaco dot com. Natalie where can people reach you? And T at monoco dot com. Excellent. Thank you very much for listening. Have a good day.
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"Following her education, she moved to Mexico. She brought with her the serious design thinking of the modernist masters and used it to help develop the nation's vernacular, collaborating with the biggest names in Mexican architecture and design of that time. Here's Anna Elena mayenne, a gallerist and host of the podcast, Culver saccharin is the Daniel, who's a specialist, imposes work. The thing that it's really interesting is to understand the context. Do you know we were talking about so she comes here late 30s. It was a decade after the revolution, Mexico was trying to put together a new national project to create a national identity and that was part of what was happening here. That was addressed in every artistic field, architecture. If you think of Diego Rivera and orozco and the muralist that was part of the national project. So she starts really building, I think at theory of Mexican design. How can you make a Mexican design? Understanding the heritage but bringing it to the modern. Now, as it was the moment of the great modern architecture, nor the 40s and the 50s. So what she really understood was the context the legacy, working with local materials with historical roots, and she saw the need for creating a national base design, a Mexican based design, inspired very much in the vernacular. So as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were for Mexican art, Paul set was for Mexican design. She incorporated and transformed the international style that was establishing itself into something more well Mexican. This came together in an item of furniture that defines a large part of her legacy. The small, low slung lounger, the chair can be found in buildings by Luis balagan, a Mario pani. It encapsulates posits signature combination of modern design thinking with a historically informed vernacular, taking local materials such as woven agave fibers into account. So it's seating furniture piece that comes from the anti Yas from the interiors. And it has traveled through all of Latin America and you can find different vernacular versions of that but in different parts of the continent. So in Mexico, we have a version in Veracruz, we had a version in the Maya in the Maya in the Yucatan and in different parts in campeche as well, so in different parts in the state of Mexico, so Clara kind of observed so that all these research and she realizes that the butaca could be a great example to bring into the modern, really to reinterpret ergonomical dimensions and experiment with different materials, local materials related to Mexican culture or to the roots to the heritage. Though posits ideas sound quite simple now. They were radical at the time. She was a champion of indigenous peoples and their craft traditions. She was an early proponent of socialism, and she helped change perceptions of interior design from being a frivolous pastime for women. Into the serious discipline that we know it to be today. And at the center of this, in her design work, was her attention to local materials. The brutal chair is just one example of her mission, which was to accommodate regional traditions and materials into the international design vernacular. It's worth bearing in mind that this was in the 1930s. Around the same time, the other modernist figures were busy creating utopian plans for cities made of concrete. A material that wasn't readily available for much of the world. It's hard not to think of Le Corbusier's unrealized via radius. By contrast, horse its creations and her way of thinking about design remain relevant today. She was saying that if we bring together the craft and industrial, we could have a Mexican design that is truly modern. We are getting industrialized, don't forget that this is a craft country. And if we bring the craft traditions and put them in dialog with the industrial, we are going to get a really unique thing. And I think her legacy is getting more alive. Not just to think of creating a design that it's truly Mexican or even truly Latin America, not just think about the context and design from Mexico for Mexico. To create something that has personality, but that relates to the context and to the culture. I think that's one of her most important legacies, and that young designers are really bringing to the present. For monocle, in Mexico City, I'm Louis harnessed Amara. And that's all for today's show. For more design stories, listen to our 5 minute mid week bonus show, monocle on design extra, which airs on Thursdays. And if you enjoy print, then do pick up a copy of monocle magazine as well. It's on all good news stands now. Today's episode was produced and edited by maile Evans. I'm Nick manis, and you can reach me on NM at Monaco dot com. Thanks for listening, and happy new year.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
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"The phrase soft power was coined in the 1990s by the American political science Buffon, Joseph Nye. Nye was making the excellent point that when it comes to projecting national stature on the global stage, there are weapons more effective than tanks warships and fighter jets. Friends can be won and people influenced by your country's music. It's food. It's fashion. It's science. It's sport. It's nature. It's generosity, its values, its demeanor. The United States wielded of the mightiest military force in human history has often overlooked this. The U.S. has been the proverbial person who grasping a hammer thinks everything resembles a nail, except that in this instance, the hammer owner has forgotten that they also have a guitar, a saucepan, a sewing machine, a medicine cabinet, a football, a cuddly marsupial, money, some elementary sense of right and wrong and considerable charm. The U.S. is as it happens in top spot in 2022s monocle soft power survey rewarded for its leadership in the defense of Ukraine for the incalculable might of its culture and for at least pausing its experiment in government by circus. You can and indeed should read the complete results of the soft power survey in the current issue of monocle magazine, although spoiler alert, it has not gone well for Russia. But in this show, we look at some specific kinds of soft power and how and why they work. How is Panzer diplomacy a thing? Are people impressed by royal pageantry and can bond between nations be cemented by a decent feed? This is the foreign desk.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"The tone of Slovenian politics, at least for a while. That can be the hope. It's instructive. She said she will do her best to be a true president for all which speaks to an intention about inclusivity and so forth, but tell us a bit more about her. I mentioned she's a lawyer. She's in her mid 50s. Does she have the kind of personality, the wherewithal, to make a good fist of the job? What she's got a profile and she has been had a national profile as a television presenter, so she presented one of the main television news bulletins in Slovenia for about half a dozen years and also worked on one of the commercial channels as well. And then she spent a decade as information commissioner of Slovenia and very, very briefly as the sort of big boss of RTV Slovenia, the main public service broadcaster, so she's not an unknown quantity, though she was as I hastened to add running as an independent. That backing that you spoke of in your introduction from the governing party came only after their own candidate had been given the heave hoe in the first round of the election and she'd been very keen to say that she's not anybody's president. She's everybody's president, so she does have that sort of stature. But I think the one thing which is going to titillate the likes of us, Tom, is that she was the lawyer for none other than Melania Trump, so after Melania Trump became the First Lady of the United States as she appointed Natasha pads Moussa to represent her interests in Slovenia and around the region, which largely meant that Natasha Petersburg was going around issuing cease and desist notices on people trying to use Melania Trump's name to market things. One imagines if you can deal with Melania, you're probably fairly well set to deal with any number of problems that may come your way. Tell me, are you talking about high profile media figures? You are one such as the old Delaney red phone ring straight away. New president presumably desperate to come and have a chat with you. I didn't view the incumbent Boris pahor for monocle magazine and so he was delightful fellow who was a very, very, very media friendly, to the extent that he was known as the Instagram president due to his mastery of social media, and it worked for him, Tom, because over his two terms, which have lasted ten years, he was pretty much consistently ranked as the most popular politician in Slovenia. And despite this being a teeny weeny country, I think he did do quite a good soft powered job in raising Slovenia's profile wherever he went by going jogging in the streets of all these major events that he was invited to as a head of state. And Natasha Pierre Moussa has got a difficult act to follow in that regard. She says she won't be competing on Instagram. That's for sure. We'll watch with interest. Guy always good to hear from you. That was our guide alani, reporting from Ljubljana. With the briefing here on Monaco, 24.
Monocle 24: Section D
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"Was really famous for you have all of the corporations ranging from H and M's that you find all the companies that produce in the global south mostly. So in India, Bangladesh also China, of course, in countries that have way other standards for production and ethical standards than, for example, in Austria. And those global connections are really important in our project, like how can we create a kind of solidarity with other countries also and the workers in other countries. It's really not only about clothes whooping and providing kind of a platform to share, but really about sharing ideas and thoughts of how the fashion industry can transform into something that's more equal and a bit more hearing also for the people behind it. And for the environment, it has implications too. So another exploration of local retail is a project called expo. I'm an architect from Austria. I'm also educated as an architect. What we did is actually kind of design research project. We mapped all institutions of part of the district. And there we found that there's a high concentration of jewelry shop, so we found two areas which we called gold, where there is this high concentration. Also an interestingly enough furniture area where there is a lot of furniture stores. And a lot of caffeine is a theater area. So we found actually hidden concentrations. We called it also expo to celebrate the existing here that existing power, which the particular already has, contrary to the world expo, where you present the world, we present district, yes, they are fantastic institutions like the piano manufactory. They write in the city center of Vienna, they make pianos. And you walk by the windows are open. They are working in a which looks like a residential building. It's a piano factory. And we've had a lot of these surprising findings. When you started researching and talking to all these people, what was their reaction? And did anybody say no, no, I don't want you here. Or was everybody happy that you're coming? And most of the people seem quite interested in it because it's also an advantage for them, of course. It's also a bit judgment. I think for them, some or even asked if they have to pay. For it. Yeah, so it was most of them quite liked it, yeah. As a whole, we produced an organized a very large festival this year. The program is huge. Of course, this has to do with rebound after the pandemic, but it also has to do with a certain density in the 6th district. So this is found great great people to talk to here. The last word from Vienna design week director Gabriel Hollande. And this is our mission to ourselves is to be out there to be web design should take place. And that's where people are with needs and desires. And things to do. And so you and others perceive it that way. This is great. It's a success. For Monaco in Vienna, I'm Alexei corridor. Thanks, Alexi. Vienna design week runs until the 25th of September 2022. And that's all for today's show. For more design stories, listen to our 5 minute midweek bonus show, monocle on design extra, which airs on Thursdays. And if you enjoy print, then do pick up a copy of monocle magazine as well. It's on all good news stands now. Today's episode was produced by maile Evans, she also edited the show with assistance from Steph Chung. I'm Nick manis, and you can reach me on NM at monocle dot com. Thanks for listening.
Monocle 24: Section D
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"Careful material selection and finishing have always been central to the work of Copenhagen's farmer. The Danish furniture and homewares brand is renowned for its use of raw and untreated wood, aluminium and clay. And its new collaboration with Japan's hinder scheme continues this trend. The two brands have teamed up to reimagine a selection of their existing ranges using the Tokyo based companies signature natural leather. Famed for working with Japan's finest tanners, hinders game has applied neutral tinted and vegetable tent letters to pieces such as farmers, Adam stool, and tasca table. To find out more about the partnership, I caught up with Neil strayer Christopherson, founder of farmer, and ryo kashiwazaki, founder of hender scheme. We hear from Neil's on the significance of the collaboration first. What is interesting is also like we kind of working in two different ways. And I think fama on a daily basis work with many different designers. I think so for us, like collaborations has always been something that has been a big part of the brand. We do both designs in-house with the design team and then also with external designers like freelance designers. And I mean, of course, I'll answer for himself, but I think of course they work with a lot of craftsmen, which is also a collaboration and in general, I think, I mean collaborations are I also say we have collaborations internally. Life is one big collaboration. I like that Neil. I like the idea that we're all just bouncing off these creative relationships. I mean, you did pick hender scheme as a partner and as a collaborator. Can you tell us a little bit about what appealed to you about them and the way that they work with leather? I think how hinder scheme approached leather is showing the material being very versatile and I think that's where they are extremely innovative and makes it very contemporary because people have been working with leather for hundreds of years and can be experienced. That's a very traditional material and I think yeah what's very exciting with Hendrick schema is that they bring it into a new era. Let's jump across to you now Rio Neil's talked about hender schemes relationship with crafts and leather as a traditional material. Can you tell us how you bring the old and the new together in your practice? So our concept is called new craft. Which is kind of our keyword and new craft is creative attitude of new craftsmanship. Where it's contemporary ideas are realized through the Norwich experience and techniques of autism and actually we have a lot of artisan autism and technique through our local craftsmen. Can I just jump in and ask how you find those local crafts people? Actually, you know, my carrier was started as autism. So that's why I had a connection with them and we naturally worked together and relationship make another relationship and connection is expanding for really like a natural way. Yeah, we explore with this kind of connection and that's kind of core part for Henderson. And for this collaboration, we use this several techniques throughout our experience and also from our graph now. So they help us to create some and also tray and especially for soy two form. We use some special technique mode, rather so first we jump to the water and try to make some mold leather technique is kind of special technique through our collection. And this is what we use for this capsule correction. Finally, Neil, to come back to you, Rio mentioned the new letters they developed for some of the products, particularly the atom stool, which has a new tray made from leather beneath it. Can you tell me how this material works in with your existing collection? I mean, we have products that normally had snakes and we say that our products are ugly when you buy them and they get beautiful when you use them in a way. And I think with the leather on top of that, it will just add another dimension, which, yeah, pets in a new different way, which is really beautiful. And then I think for the cabinet was an idea, we had making this kind of curtain cabinet and so the experiment was to kind of launch it with hender scheme. For the atom stool, I think, with the basket makes complete sense like it could be for a person who as a ceramicist who has her or his tools in the basket or does like in your living room with your camera and your dining room or what your books or next to you a bit or you know I think it's a nice piece and the same the baskets and the cloud is very much something hinder scheme already carries in their collection, but it's kind of a twist. It suits very very, very well from as well and so it feels very natural. It's not like it doesn't feel forced. Yeah, what we appreciate working with hender scheme is they are very dedicated to like a one material and it really suits a lot of our products as a contrast. I think it's also just the two different companies are based Tokyo and Copenhagen. I think that itself also gives interesting angles and we definitely experienced that visiting each other and our two different teams has been communicating a lot and exchanging information and data and it really shows how different the two companies are working because we are from two different cultures and the way we approach everything is so different and it's been very learning for and extremely exciting. My thanks to Neil strayer Christopherson and Rio kashiwazaki, you can find the frama and hinder scheme collaboration online or at their flagship shops in Copenhagen and Tokyo. And that's all for today's show. For more design stories, listen to our 5 minute midweek bonus show, monocle on design extra, which airs on Thursdays. And if you enjoy print, then do pick up a copy of monocle magazine as well. It's on all good news stands now. Today's episode was produced by melee Evans, she also edited the show with assistance from Callum McLean. I'm Nick manis, and you can reach me on NM at Monaco dot com. Thanks for listening.
Monocle 24: Section D
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"So right at the top of the house, this is the fashion room. This is the room where my sister is based and this is where all the pattern cutting happens and it's where the start of the fashion collections form their life up here. And so it's always a mess. It's the messiest studio, but I love it for that. There's always bits of fabric on the floor and bins full of extra fabric that we're working on, experimentation of painting onto fabric, patterns everywhere. It's definitely the kind of the room where it's most active and lively, I think. I avoid a label I avoid being pigeonholed, so, you know, whether I'm called an artist or a designer, fashion designer, you know, these are just for me, they're just slightly unwanted badges, but at the same time, I really recognize and embrace trade and craftsmanship. When I started the fashion collection, so we have the photographer jacket or the doorman, the acrobat trousers or the baker's trousers, the draftsman shirt. They all have their own trade names, and they all have a passport inside. Listing that trade, but also all the initials of the people involved in making it. Although I can't barely labels, I kind of also acknowledge them and embrace. Trade. Artisan manufacturing. By doing that for the clothing, it sort of made me have a reason to make a garment. You know, okay, if we're going to make a jacket, we'll why, who needs this jacket and what do they need it for? Well, the photographer needs giant pockets, so let's give them giant pockets and they need to be able to move around a lot so the back has to be really, really square and not all tailored in like a normal tailored jacket. So those sorts of things have given us a reason for making that garment. And we have these trades, and we need to look after them. We have things here up in the studio that are not just fashion based. And I think that's one of the things that I'm excited about this studio is that there's a great cross discipline going on between the floors, so whether you trained and fashionable, whether you're trained in furniture design, the idea is that in this studio that you can, you can work in both rooms and that actually has valid to have a furniture designer working on something for fashion, et cetera. So yeah, you will always find bits of other materials that may look like they belong to furniture but actually they are coming into the fashion room because we will be inspired by the gloss on them or the raw edge or something about a particular material that we can then try and translate into a fashion garment. Tinker is the way that I used to describe myself. It's one that I feel comfortable with because a tinker essentially is a master of nothing but light tinkering with everything and that probably is the best word I can use to describe what I do. You know, I don't claim to be the ultimate fashion designer or superb craftsman or you know it's not really about that. I have found the equivalent of my shed and this is the red church street and I like tinkering in it and if people are interested and find it relevant and want to buy it or connect with it in some way, that's great for me. Faye too good there speaking from her London studio. Her new book, drawing, material, sculpture, landscape, is published by fired on and available at all good bookstores now. And that's all for today's show. For more design stories, listen to our 5 minute mid week bonus show, monocle on design extra, which airs on Thursdays, or if you prefer print, then pick up a copy of monocle magazine on all good newsstands now. Today's episode was produced by maile Evans, who also edited the show with assistance from Chris a Blackwell. I'm Nick manis, and you can reach me at NM at Monaco dot com. Thanks for listening.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Our North American editor Chris Lorde gives us his ideas on how water shapes a city. And I wonder if you could just tell us a little bit more about that. Sure, well, I think whatever we do at Monaco, there needs to be a sense of place. If it's a dispassionate voice, calling down from above, you know, a great wisdom that they know and you don't to be imparted on you. That's a difficult thing, but The Economist does it well. I'm slightly joking. But there needs to be a sense of place and a sense of authorship. So what those writers have done, Chris lord, who mentioned there, are U.S. editor. He took three cities that he'd lived in and Dubai, Istanbul and Los Angeles, and talked about how the people from those cities related to the sea and how it talked about. Different parts of their history and what it meant Tyler's obviously essay about her body culture and what which body you go to, which Swiss bath you go to says about you, again, it's a real snapshot of a moment in a time and he talks about how he discovered them, how he's even built his life around being able to visit these places, but they're all little funny intriguing ways of looking at the world with a sense of place. And just one other essay in that theme, it's kind of in praise of flying, which is not something we're all able to do, but written by an airline pilot. And it really does talk about the fact that, you know, taking a window seat, admiring the season, the city, the moment the time of day is important, and that's what the whole book looks to do. There's no didactic essay about how you should definitely live. They were just ideas from all over the world from different places that give you a little bit of inspiration and maybe something to take with you that feels like it's off the season that feels a bit hot and feels like a dip might be the antidote to it at the end. Well, speaking about a dip a little bit earlier, you mentioned the warm water swimming club. Now this is written by Justin Poole. I thought rather suspicious name. Talk about a dip in the quality of jokes, I see, as well as that as well as taking place. What is the water selling carbon? Who intriguingly is Justin Poole? I don't think Justin would like it if I gave away his identity. It is a nom de plume, a super K, a falsification, but we've done these from time to time in Monaco. A good example we did recently was someone who worked for RT, the infamous Russian disseminator of propaganda where we had an essay written by a person and we kept them unknown. There was no reason to give them a funny name, but I think in the past we've had guest credits on a story about the business of sleep by someone called pillow, I don't believe they were a real person and just in pool again. It's just a way of keeping the author safe his essay very quickly is about why he's starting a warm water swimming club and this is obviously pushing back against the people who say you have to jump headlong into the hampstead ponds or freezing gelled waters wherever you find yourself. I think he's just saying relax. Do you think he's saying it's okay to enjoy swimming somewhere warm and I think that's an idea that we can all get on board with. Absolutely Justin, whoever you are, we thank you. That was Josh Bennett, the editor of both monocle magazine and the new book the monocle companion, 50 ideas to improve your life which will be published on Thursday, and that's it for this edition of the briefing. It was produced by Marcus hippie and honor researchers where lilian fawcett and Maya renfer, our studio manager, was Callum McLean. I'm Georgina Godwin. I'll be back on the briefing tomorrow at the same time. Thanks for listening.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Again are most concerning at the moment. Well, I mean, very simply imports, obviously are becoming much more expensive. And this comes at a time when the economy is already weak. People are concerned about jobs. The price of things are rising anyway. So it comes at a very, very difficult time. Now, Corona, the governor of the bank of Japan has always been quite positive about a weekend. He slightly wobbled I noticed last week and admitted that it may be difficult for businesses to make their plans. But he still sticking with the weak yen is a good thing. He thinks it's good for an export driven economy. Some people are questioning that since not all production is in Japan anyway. So it doesn't necessarily benefit everyone who's exporting because they may not be exporting from Japan. So mixed feelings. And I think everyone's just looking to see what his move will be. But he's giving no sign that he's going to do anything to stop the Jens fall. And people are saying, it could go to a 130, is that the point where Japan, the Japanese government intervenes, it's not clear and totally different points of view at the moment. Is there a feeling about the bank of Japan will have to change its approach at some point? Well, it's interesting. I mean, if you look at the newspapers, I noticed the asahi shimbun massive newspaper huge circulation here. They're calling for some flexibility and they're saying maybe Corona has to be a bit more flexible and not just say that he's sticking to monetary easing, come what may. And maybe he will need to take a different approach. But the asahi shimbun does not decide economic policy. So at the moment, it's very much in Corona's hands. How do you see the weekend at the moment? For example, when you go to do your grocery shopping, is the difference notable. Well, I think what you will see and it may take a little while for this to come through, but the prices of imported goods will inevitably go up now. And companies don't want to shoulder those imports. What you'll see is that it'll be passed on to the customer. And I think consumer confidence is pretty shaky here at the moment anyway, the retail sector has been struggling that will be concerned that people will just stop spending money. They'll be tucking it under their mattresses, which is always an issue in Japan that people hold on to their money. How is the Japanese economy failing more broadly than we have obviously spoken many times about Japan's post pandemic recovery? Yeah, well, I mean, it's fragile. Bank of Japan's got its big meeting next week where they talk about the upcoming policy. It's an anxious time, definitely. And you can see, as you see all over the world, you go to shopping areas, you do notice empty shops, you see retail. I was just traveling at the weekend and these rural towns extremely quiet, tourism ground to a halt. Certain amount of domestic tourism. And I think we've got golden week coming up, which is this big run of holidays in May. And a lot of people are really pinning their hopes on that week. They're hoping that for the first time in a couple of years, Japanese travelers will be out en masse and they will be traveling around Japan and spending their money. So at the moment, that's a bit of a Beacon of hope, I think, for the economy. And how desperate is Japan at the moment to welcome more foreign visitors as well, international tourists. Yeah, that's a mixed picture. I mean, prime minister kishida said earlier this month, he said, you know, there are no plans, actually, to resume tourist entry. He's saying we've really got to make sure we get numbers, COVID numbers down is a slight problem here that with the booster young people are really hesitating to get that third injection and at the moment the rates for the booster among the young is pretty low. So they're trying to encourage that they're offering prizes. They're saying you can see the baby pandas at wayno zoo. They're trying all sorts of things to encourage people. And I think prime minister kishi wants to get that situation sorted and then certainly things have been opening up slowly 10,000 entries are allowed a day that includes residents, some business people, students with visas who are waiting to come in. So there has been a certain movement tourism. That's when I think really big numbers will start to appear. And at the moment, there's no sign of that being lifted right now. It's going to be a long way. If you want to thank you very much for joining us today. That was Monaco's Tokyo bureau chief. And you are with the briefing. The May issue of monocle magazine is out now and.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Finally on today's broker I'm joined in the studio by Monaco's deputy design editor Nick manis who has been traveling Nick welcome to the program. Hello, Marcus, it's good to be here. It's good to have you here. So you went to turkey when to inigo, which is a city of a 180,000 people. It's not very well known beyond turkey, but actually there may be a reason why people should check out what's going on over there. And you did. Absolutely. I mean, for starters, within turkey, it's known for two things. Meatballs, which are outstanding I did try some of them and then also furniture as well. So what actually happened is one of our readers Kamal Errol came to an event of ours and was telling us about this city that's a little heard of place that's actually a powerhouse when it comes to furniture production and his company, a furniture company of events a is manufacturing there and we sort of got into a discussion about why that was happening in an essentially in a city of a 180,000 people. There are 40,000 people working in the furniture industry with 2000 different manufacturers making everything from timber frame sofas and armchairs and dining and side tables and obviously naturally Ottomans as well. And essentially collectively these companies have helped turkey to become a global furniture player. The country's exports have increased from a €170 million in 2001 to almost €2.6 billion last year. And it's despite this small size in a goal contributed 20% of that output. So it's just massive playing this huge outsiders role in furniture production. That's amazing. How has that happened as there just being a one or two furniture manufacturers that have gradually attracted more companies to move there? I mean, there's a history of, I guess, furniture and working with timber in that city. It dates back to the Ottoman Empire. They used to use local timber to make naval vessels, even though it's nowhere near the ocean. And also paddles for making peels, which are wood fired pizzas used to cook wood fired pizzas, which I know you'd be all about. Essentially, yeah, what's happening is over time a cohesive furniture ecosystem is how they describe it has developed in that area where they have this raw material. So the timber that the Ottomans were using is still being used today that the city surrounded by beach pine and oak trees and combining that with I guess the emergence of logistics companies as well as I guess complimentary suppliers, foam and plywood and wholesalers making a hardware and glass. With a design saying that's growing as well, they have dedicated design schools, has culminated in, I guess, in the last ten years, this growing into just a huge furniture production facility, even though it's acidity, even though it's a city rather. I tell us about the craftsmanship in that city Weiss, the furniture so good. I mean, it does, it does have those historic links, which is what has made it good. You know, you walk around, you go into the cafes there, people are talking furniture. Again, 40,000 of a 180,000 are working in this industry. Everyone cares about furniture. They're sharing secrets of how they're making things as well. So they're very open about what they're doing. And obviously everyone's sort of grown up together, especially if you're going to these design schools. You sort of know everyone working in it. And I guess it's a friendly place and that really does, that really has helped it grow and develop. Nobody's hiding secrets. Everyone's, I guess, helping each other hone their craft. And it goes from the small scale, so tiny, tiny makers, you know, there's whole streets in the city dedicated to furniture workshops, and it's just row after row after row of tiny workshop, but then there are also industrial zones on the outskirt of the city where you've got these huge manufacturers making massive paces. And I'll finish on this one. There's great stories of literally companies propping each other up, buying each other's furniture to stop them going under. I love it. I can't stop talking fast enough about it. That's amazing, and I'll listen to a skin read more about in a goal in the April issue of monocle magazine, which is a new stand now. And there's also an exclusive report on this week's episode of monoclonal design that premieres today S 2000 London time. Nicole were the meatballs really, really good. I think I had them breakfast lunch and dinner, so I was quite heavy coming back, but it was delicious and worth it. That was Monaco's typical designer. Thank you very much for joining us today. And that's all for this edition of the briefing. It was produced by Reece James, our research was Samson borgo and our studio manager was stiff chungu. The briefing is back tomorrow at the same time, that's at 1400 in Kyiv, midday in London, 7 a.m. in Washington, D.C., I am Marcus hippie. Goodbye, and thanks for listening..
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
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"To take a broader look at the diplomatic spat and why countries seem more prone to them than others. Joined now by quentin peel. An associate fellow with the europe program at chatham house quinton was also foreign correspondent for the financial times in moscow. Among many other postings quentin. I write a regular for monocle. Magazine called diplomatic spat of the moment. In which i explained how one or more countries are angry with one or more of a countries. And what it's all about now. It does strike me having written a few of these that more often than not one of the parties to the dispute of the moment is china or russia. Is that actually the case or does it just seem like china and russia getting more involved in these than most countries because when they tee off about something everybody notices will they clearly do it but i'm not sure they do it more than anybody else. It seems to me that sort of countries that do it. Most those who've got a bit of a chip on their shoulders feel they're not being respected so maybe countries in latin america. I think of to do it to each other. They want respect pakistan or countries in the middle east. It strikes me that it's much more about gesture politics than it is about the real world. It's about saying we're jolly cross but we're not going to invade you. The chip on the shoulder thing. That is something you could suggest of both china or russia in some respects. Could you know well. I think probably yes russia. You know we want respect. We want to be at the top table and we don't feel we're treated as a superpower any longer. I think on the whole the chinese are pretty confident that they are. There is a superpower but they have one particular issue that seems to get up as all the time and of course. that is the issue of taiwan. So the most recent case there when china recalled its ambassador to lithuania that mighty you have this enormous super cooling at its ambassador to a very small country and it really does seem a little bit exaggerated that does prompt. The question which always occurs to me. Whenever i'm writing this thing up for monocle magazine or indeed discussing such brew ha-has why don't countries especially big important countries like china or russia ever. Just think this is probably a bit beneath out dignity. Let's just leave it. I think it's a bit of a knee jerk. Reaction probably really and it is another tool in the diplomatic armory. Clearly it is one that says you're upset. You're angry without actually costing you very much. But i do think it's rather counterproductive tool as well because you pulling out the person who probably is in the best position both to explain what you think and to explain to you. What the country that they coming out of things so. It's not a very coherence way of behaving if we think about it though as a diplomatic tool as he put it and assume that the country's conducting these rows are basically logical actors. Does it actually do any good. In terms of advancing the goals you mentioned obviously china and it's absolutely reliable. Big red button taiwan. If you want to get a reaction out of china you press on that big red button but doesn't actually help china advance. Its ultimate goal there which is obviously ultimately the reincorporation of taiwan into the people's republic. No i didn't think it does. Identity get helps really a tool..
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Elsewhere in on itself. The focus of the parties. Ira has been on. Its own leader. Annemie paul who's a lawyer and a former advisor to the international criminal court in the hague. She was elected to replace elizabeth. Nee who had led the greens for thirteen years in october last year is join me in congratulating the next leader of the green party of canada and emmy paul pose election to the leadership of the green party made history. She's the first black woman and the first jewish woman to lead national political party here in canada and i spoke to her shortly after her election to the leadership about that achievement for monocle magazine. We have got to demonstrate. We are ready to government. I think that there is still some reticence or sums some suspicion that perhaps we have great ideas but that we were not professional enough. We're not disciplined enough to be able to execute them so that is A big part of the role that i have making sure that people see that we are those things and our house is in order so that if they do give us their confidence and a bigger role you're able to do something impactful with it should have been. The beginning of new era of leadership at the green party turned into something quite different quite quickly not long after my conversation with paul when that opportunity to demonstrate that the green party's house was in order came along. It missed its chance..
Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
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"Fernando thanks also to your electronic marimba orchestra an encomium there to the joys of the weekly a print journal and i obviously agree with fernando completely. Because that's how i started in journalism. I worked for weekly print magazines. I worked for a free sheet in sydney called on the street and later for the british rock weekly melody maker of blessed memory Which you subscribe to any more. And i'm going to do these spinal tap joke along the lines of don't look for anymore. It's not there at cetera. Mary do still subscribe to anything at all. That comes through your letterbox. Every week i do subscribe. I get the economist and i usually get a spectator not on subscription But i subscribe more to one say digital publications because there are certain things that are sort of behind the pay wall. So that's i afraid to say women's subscriptions go so you'll see. I'm still big fan of the print magazine. I still have not acquired. The habit may be generational thing of reading on screen and thinking of it as in any way pleasurable. And that's the difference. You can get the same information. But the pleasure is not the same. And i think it's a generation and think and it can sound of the magazines. Fold on the doormat till on on friday. There is something about it in the smell of of the magazine and equality of of the paper. That picture anything that item you just very convincing that. We should russian by some some magazine. There is something about it he's going to last is the new generation is going to be convinced. Then maybe used to everything that is digital. But i think there are still placing the in reality as we held from the figures. People actually still subscribe to that. Of course there is what changed. It is our ability to access. I think that's what you refer to to so many different newspaper. If it says aides think we used to to with one newspaper into a one magazine a week and now we have access to so many of them but still the pleasure to sit on the armchair and just go so the magazine. It's not the same is interesting. That magazines have tended to increase their circulation whereas newspaper. Circulation has fallen. And that's the seems to be a big difference between the attractions of magazine and the the difference between reading a daily paper. Something that can alter practically from our to our but a magazine is which has been chosen and it fits together for that particular time longer. It's that longer more room initiative view which perhaps suit sexually sitting down as yossi suggests in an armchair she leafing through it and it may be also a reaction to the spread of social media. And all those who are sort on twitter trying to Writing this sort of aphoristic way in everything in x. number of characters that there's a reaction to that that says well that's fine so far as it goes but it also shows us the value of completely the opposite and i wonder whether that's partly in an explanation for why magazines have become apparently increasing this accusation. Almost certainly i would have thought fernando's excellent program. The stack can be found of course on a website and wherever fine. Podcasts are downloaded. I would be remiss of us not to point out that subscriptions to monocle magazine And indeed its new sister. Journal conflict are absolutely excellent value also available from a website. I mean i know. It's a monthly not weekly but the point stands that is all for this edition of the monocle daily. Thanks to our panelists marriage. Jetski and you'll see michael bug. Thanks also to jonathan cats at the top of the show and to fernando augusta per shaker. Today's show was produced by alexa self l. Sound engineer was steph. Chengdu amount jamila here in london. Daily is back at the same time tomorrow. Thanks for listening..
Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
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"Listen and share experience kristin hansen. Thank you for joining us and finance. Do you have any issues that devoid you that you would like to discuss as a matter of any great urgency. We do actually of wearing shorts at the office or even some food and food topics moved off the shorts thing quickly there fernando for the certain knowledge about to be outvoted two to one but anyway you are listening to the daily Still with me as you have just heard marcus and fernando augusta per sheku and all this week on the daily. We have been contemplating the g. Seven summit which is now underway in cornwall and has not degenerated into an all in chair-throwing fisticuffs as we go to air. One of the subjects of any such wingding is the exchange of gifts among the leaders. Us president joe biden making his first overseas trip as leader of the free seems to have made a genuine effort re his present to the host uk. Prime minister boris johnson. A very swish bicycle and helmet decorated in red white and blue livery extolling the special relationship in return. Johnson gave biden a framed. Photo of a mural of frederick douglass though the photo does seem and i am not making this up to have been downloaded from douglas's wikipedia page. The uk is apparently that broke. I did want to ask you both each intern I you. Marcus would give a foreign leader visiting finland other than of course a gruff handshake. I know it really depends on the leader in question by guests. I have to. I have to go for the basics. I have to go to the cliche. I would give probably finished design or maybe something you know feeling. He's doing a lot of text off thousand. Maybe a gap chet. Maybe a computer game because we are doing them and was well. What about that. Salted licorice always topping. Because that that genuinely is amazing i know. But it's it's a very divisive for example fernando. I actually have to tell the story to you once. Because i brought those candies over here to london i gave one to fernando and front is always very polite smile sent and claims to enjoy those things. But i left the room for a second when i came back. Fernando was by the been trying to get out from his mouth about these things. It does demonstrate that you know these. These things are remind field fernando in the frankly unlikely event that you ever did find yourself as president of brazil there. You still a relatively young man. What what would you distribute among foreign leaders visiting. Especially if i want a good business deal to myself into my country will definitely give a chair designed by brazilian architect designer. Said you. who'd regencies medo jakarta. Would i generally think very chic piece. I mean it's very expensive. Actually these days if you want to buy a vintage one so i think they'll be very lucky if they get one from me. Has anybody here ever been given anything by a foreign leader. I was telling markers that. I've been promised something that didn't really arrive. The address when interviewed a former president dilma rousseff. She said was mentioned quite a few books during the interview. I don't remember the names of the books. Which said don't you worry. Just give your address to my assistant sandon to you. It's i'm still waiting. Dilma i i haven't got anything from any foreign leaders have to say about if if vladimir putin of russia is good as something. He's very good and giving presents. Finland's president solely nina is a couple of years ago. Got a delivery from him and we had all had documents a former finnish. President monitor hey moves who is also wore hero. Some documents fallen from the russian archives. That finland did not know off and the finnish president those for his seventieth birthday present. That is a cool present. I have an autographed copy of a book of the desk doodles of albanian. Prime minister edi rama. Do you wanna tell us the story about how you got. I was interviewing him for monocle. Magazine and he gave it to me. As i left his office he he is an by trade before he went into politics. And he's on the blotting paper on his desk. He draws in the margins. These lovely sort of whirling colorful doodles and some incredibly pulse. Flash german publisher had package the moral up into a very nice book Which he signed a copy on gave me. I mean that's very thoughtful. I find i. Also i will give him a tote bag full of stuff by san marino's prime minister who is also the postman i. He's not he's not yours is what you've been guessing. I basically do. The i mean it is. It is just a tote bag in a book. it's not it's not anything terrifically exciting anyway. I'm i'm getting wind up. Justice from inside the production booth and probably quite reasonably telling us that we should move along to the veritable feast of football commencing. This weekend indeed later tonight wing. Italy host turkey in rome the european football championships and the copa america will be happening at the same time. Which means that two continents will be hosting tournaments of national teams hoping not merely to accel on the field but to create a good impression of it that being the case we are now going to direct our attention. To whom in only the competition has the best kit now. Obviously i'm out of this in terms of looking at my own country because unlike for example the eurovision song contest strategy has not figured out how to get ourselves invited to either. The copa america will the european football championships. You're old just scared financier. Let's start with you and let's start with brazil. Who's i mean. Everybody knows brazil's kit. Brazil are always extremely smart turned out But as we have discussed a few times just in the office The kit has changed. Meaning for some brazilians and i should furnish a bit of backdrop. Here by telling list is one of the absolute joys of working in this building during a world cup. Is that finance though. I am not making this up. Does turn up for work wearing not merely the brazil shirt but the shorts and socks the full kit. But the said thing andrew that. I'm not sure if i'll be able to do that in the next world cup because you're very right. It's so quickly that it became a before it was a source of pride. But now if i wear that might be confused with a bolsonaro supporter. One day in the airport and some follow was wearing yellow. Not even the national kit and woman looked at me. Smiling said bolsonaro and then i didn't know what to do i was like oh my god. I'm action support..
Monocle 24: Midori House
"Vaccine Passports" Spark Debate and Division
"Over the merits of vaccine passports is gathering steam as countries around the world debate how to kick start travel and public. Gatherings denmark became the first european country to introduce a form of vaccine certificates today while in the uk. Prime minister boris. Johnson has said that proof of vaccines will be required for major public events. The opposition labor party has opposed the idea calling them discriminatory but the parties. One time standard-bearer. Tony blair disagrees. I spoke to the former labor prime minister for monocle. Magazine's april issue a little of what he had to say on. The subject seems to be obvious that countries it for example owed up tourist industry other the tourists walk out whilst the disease status or the vaccination status of the people of about sharon with about shero restaurant. Wait i think this is inevitable. My point is if it is inevitable. Put in place a proper system now let a patchwork of different systems. Different processes validation gras topsy. Turvy because you just find a lot of complexity in a lot of confusion and you would also probably facilitate role at so you need proper validated systems. The best cities for the developed countries of the well to agree such a system between themselves or for example. We're working on a programming africa to allow a common travel costs between african countries. These things have to happen so my point is get ahead of the curb eight sensitive.
Monocle 24: The Menu
Darina Allens food philosophy
"We start today spoke with Irish chef author and broadcaster Darin Allen who has for over three decades being tempting curious food folk would be shifts from around the world to East Cork. That's where she runs the world famous. Bali mellow cookery school. After twenty or so cookbooks and countless Seles. TV shows Allen has become the face and the voice of a coronary revolution in Ireland. And now she has released yet another cookbook call to one. report feeds or Marcus. Joyce finished meant during Allen to talk about the book but before that they discussed dreariness food philosophy and into why rice cooking and farming practices. Really do matter. Not Enough has changed in that direction because really the message not even subliminal message nowadays is is that the skills that are really important are the academic skills and that the practical skills are of much less importance and this is a big mistake. My goodness sweep Latin now. Two generations at least out of our houses and our schools without equipping them with the basic life skills to feed themselves properly or feeding right into the hands of the multinational food companies. We've handed over complete control over the most important thing in our lives really are food to the supermarkets and it's not their responsibility. Our health is not their responsibility so basically I feel really failing in our duty of care to our children and the next generation by not equipping helping them with the basic practical skills to make a little meal for themselves own. I could really do was actually scrambled eggs or whatever you know With a basic skill. I've had a really interesting life. I now have what I absolutely love. It's actually a privilege to be able to pass on cooking. King skills to the next generation could be teaching algebra geometry or something and of course it's hugely important but you can't flip and Matt's Book and the Look on somebody's face when you teach them how to make a loaf of bread or a super it actually touches their lives at something they're going to use every day so I feel fortunate that I've found something that I totally love doing and feel like jumping out of bed still every day at seventy one years of age. Don't jump on quite desert fossil. Awesome US two years ago but still if we flash forward I mean people wouldn't have to look far to see the success. All of the amazing graduates have come through the school. All of the things that you've you've taught them not to mention as you said your TV shows your books sold in the hundreds of thousands of copies. But I had the good fortune two years ago. I believe to come to Bali demanded to a story for Monocle magazine. And you told me something curious. I'd like to ask you about the first recipe. Teach students is a recipe for soil. And in your clothes. It's actually the recipe. I give them as how to make compost scams where you're very very close. So basically the school operates a whole year round but we do three-month dream on certificate courses on the first day. The first one the first thing I do is I introduce them to the gardeners in the far manager. And maybe I'll have a bunch of carrots or something and I say to them. Look at these lovely carrots. It took I lean three months to grow these carrots three months and don't you dare boilers them. And you get them into the kitchen and then we go out into the fruit garden and Eileen will have a wheelbarrow full of soil there. Actually its humus in fact and they stand around me and a big semicircle in a wondering doing what's coming down the line the feeling a little awkward and I just run my hands to the soil and I say to them remember. This is where it all starts in the good earth in the soil and and looking at me and thinking. Oh my God do myself say. They've visited brochure. thinking some aged hippie on a mission or something but I have to shock them out of thinking that food is just something that comes wrapped in plastic offer supermarket shelf. I need them to think about how it's produced where it comes. I think about the feed for the animals. The breed the the variety such a such a toll. The better if I can find futile worms in this wheelbarrow full of soil. But then it's even more interesting for me. I think because wash is in that wheelbarrow has come from the compost heap and it's now at the final stages of compost which is called Humus when life comes back into it and actually has been made from the scraps from the morning's cooking that have gone onto the compost. It's broken down and in life has come back into it and that is what we feed the soil with. I mean if I come back another time I want to be a soil scientist. 'cause the so much going on because our health everything comes in the soil bill but then one of the many wonderful quote some lady eve how far and say to them remember the health of the soil. The health of the plant health at the animal and the health of the human are all one and indivisible so we're totally dependent on that four or five inches of soil around the world for our very existence. Farmers are really worried about the diminishing fragility of the soil. Because we've racked the soil by very intensive monoculture over the years and we can't go on with businesses usual. We simply have to go back and I mean as a farmer I feel a strong responsibility that whatever I grow you and we have we sell a little of our excess produce Mardell farm shop on the farm farmers markets and. I just feel strong responsibility that I can look somebody straight in the. I know that that food is going to nourish them rather than make them ill. which is what's happening with lots of food nowadays and during the you've been proved right over time I mean these are opinions slowly working their way into the mass media their opinions that people are slowly beginning to agree with? You have held this idea for a long time. How hard is it meant to convince people to even get to this point into the debate where people countenanced the health of the soil? There's a lot of chat about the fertility of the soil. Now because I think people really beginning and not just beginning but realized the connection connection between fertile soil and good health also. There's been enormous amount of work done on the link between the health of our gut bio and both are mental and physical health. And that's when you think of it. It's like so obvious at the school where very lucky we have a little dairy herds so we also have role milk for people if they want to drinker but we notice this is sort of anecdotal. Because I've watched this over thirty years the difference in people's energy level and they're scared and so on when they're with us for three months but now this is all scientifically proven and also the other interesting thing that's happening actually is for the last five six seven courses this is. We've had at least one doctor. Sometimes to an on this course of the moment we have three doctors on the twelve week certificate cooking course these doctors who come they all come for the same reason they tell me that basically they feel because medical training. There's no training in nutrition even still although a lot of the young doctors. There's a now demanding that they're given the proper information so they can answer their patients queries properly and so many of the patients presenting hunting with conditions. That can be at least hot. An often cured by a change of Diet for one of the problems is. Where'd you get this nutrient dense food? I mean a lot. The people don't have time to buy directly from farmers but there are other ways of excel tarnish of routes to market retell routes to market developing over here. You have formed drop and we we have neighbor food and onto you can buy on nine. And then the farmers get eighty percent of the price which is fantastic has so many farmers not being paid enough any longer to produce nourishing wholesome food which is a real problem. And that's as opposed to us was between twenty five and thirty percent of the retail price. If it's going through a supermarket so that's important portent and also I'm encouraging people to try to grow something themselves again and as you mentioned you're concerned about the quality of food that people have access has to and maybe also sometimes I guess the quality of food that people were reached for when they could reach for something else which are believed to be some of the inspiration behind rather fetching new book work in front of me number. Nineteen number nine teams needs another during having good but I I think this one says one feeds all one hundred it new recipes. Tell us about the inspiration for after you've done. Eighteen books hackles up. The ALITA writes her. Another one. Why it took me to write this book? Actually because it's been bubbling away in my subconscious for years. Because we've been I suppose is about five or six years. Now we've been doing a course called one wonders it's a bit of a cheesy name for recourse but it's almost full and of course one can see year after year that everybody's becoming more and more frenetically busy and sort of for an fact have dedicated this book to all the heroic young couples who are trying to keep all the balls in the air and that's for many people. The reality now is so dashing home from work in the UK. Okay here in Ireland to terrible traffic off the time dashing into the supermarkets picking up the kids in the crash trying to get a few ingredients and then coming home exhausted and and really wanting to be able to cook a big part of something or make something that you know will nourish the family and we'll be delicious and wholesome and good and comforting after that long day and it's just time it's almost impossible to keep all the balls in the air and so. I hope that this book will provide a little bit of the solution for so many of the busy people to the title says Israeli. Because it's one part feeds also one pass one low sinton baking tray or one trae Bake I. I hate that word trade bait but there's so many good things loved it desserts. You can do it as well so this book was written for that reason and it's getting a fantastic response. Actually I think it's really touching a nerve with a lot of people in so many people say that's exactly what I wanted. It's exactly what I've been waiting for so I. I'm quite proud of it in many ways because I kept putting the recipes and saying I think left without an they'd love that they'd love letter left out and actually does apart from of course fishing means on there's also lots of vegetarian -tarian dishes and lots of accidentally Vegan things to and during last question for you but number nineteen thirty six years of running the cookery school. What was the one talk tip that you've learned over that time? It can be a technique for boiling an egg could be owning a mandolin. Was the one bit of advice I can ask you. That you think is made life a little bit easier in otherwise hectic schedule. Oh my goodness I think. Sit Down after your days work. Sit Down and enjoy. Enjoy something at the kitchen table. Whether it's just a simple boiled egg little scrambled eggs or nomination it loss of wine but sit down and enjoy us and let the cares on the worries of the days. Slip away as you enjoy a little special moment at the kitchen table during their and her new book one pot feeds all all is out now