The Venice Biennale, Salone del Mobile and translated fiction
Monocle on Saturday
English - April 20, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MBNews monocle music monocle magazine tyler brûlé culture current affairs design business Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Isabel Hilton, founder of China Dialogue, joins Georgina Godwin to talk about German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China, A24’s ‘Civil War’ (warning: spoilers ahead) and Anne Hidalgo’s vision of a greener Paris under threat. The co-founder of independent publisher Charco Press, Samuel McDowell, also joins the show to discuss translated Latin American fiction. Plus: we hear from Turkish designer Gülsün Karamustafa, who is representing her country at this year’s Venice Biennale, and Monocle’s design editor, Nic Monisse, speaks to Nicola Coropulis, CEO of renowned design company Poltrona Frau, at Salone del Mobile.