Homing In
Matt Gibberd and The Modern House
What does home reveal about who we are? Almost everything, it turns out. Join The Modern House co-founder and author Matt Gibberd as he talks to cultural and creative leaders about the most influential space in our lives: home. In each episode, we ask guests to talk about a home of their past; their current living space; and where they would like to end up – revealing what home means to some of our most inspiring public figures. Be prepared for tears, laughter and everything in between.
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Homing In is produced by The Modern House, with music by Father.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Homing In episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Homing In for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Homing In episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
1.5 Faye Toogood, Designer
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05/07/20 • 35 min
Faye Toogood is a multi-disciplinary designer whose work, spanning furniture, interiors and fashion, is subject to her explorative approach to form, fondness of colours inspired by British landscapes and a sculptor’s love of materials. Listen as Toogood reveals her affinity with the Bloomsbury group’s flamboyance, Sri Lankan modernism and California’s mid-century design legacy.
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04/02/20 • 38 min
Jonathan Tuckey came to architecture via studying social anthropology, which taught him the human value of well-designed spaces and the importance of home. It might also explain his taste for working with old buildings, forging original designs with contemporary materials from the remnants of bakeries, ironmongers, chapels and more.
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Tony’s life story is incredibly inspiring. He began his career at The Sunday Times Magazine, then became the art director of GQ and was later appointed editor-in-chief of Wallpaper*, which arguably defined the design aesthetic of the noughties and taught us all how to live like urbane Scandinavians. We discussed his childhood home in the 1970s – which was a riot of swirly brown carpet, chintz cushions and fake-brick wallpaper – and his experience living on the Barbican estate in London for 27 years, which is longer than anyone else I know.
This conversation was recorded in person at Tony’s Barbican home.
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Executive Producer: Kate Taylor of Feast Collective
Production: Hannah Phillips
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Graphic Design: Tom Young
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2.8 Margaret Howell, Designer
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12/02/21 • 50 min
On The Modern House Podcast, our host Matt Gibberd invites design enthusiasts to select their top three living spaces in the world. The guest of this episode is indeed a design enthusiast, but she’s also quite the expert: it’s Margaret Howell. The designer is synonymous with three things in particular: a quintessential Britishness, quality craftsmanship and materials. So it makes perfect sense that this trio unites her top three living spaces. Listen to discover the stories behind her selection. Plus, she discusses her early memories of design and endless love of making things.
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Homing In
05/22/23 • 1 min
What does home reveal about who we are? Almost everything, it turns out, as we have discovered recording conversations with cultural contributors, business innovators and creative luminaires for our new podcast, Homing In, which we are excited to share with you later this week. The show takes over from the previous iteration of our podcast with an updated format. Our co-founder Matt Gibberd asks guests to discuss the place they grew up in, their current home, and their thoughts on future living – revealing the emotional experiences that underpin some of our most inspiring public figures. Be prepared for tears, laughter, and everything in between.
The Modern House is an estate agency that helps people live in more thoughtful and beautiful ways. If you have a modern home to sell, get in touch to find out how we can maximise its value.
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06/09/23 • 46 min
Nick is a legendary photographer and founder of the influential website SHOWstudio, which has pioneered the use of moving image in fashion. I've come to his London studio to find out more about his incredibly colourful life through the lens of the homes he's lived in. He tells me about growing up in a grandiose apartment in Paris, the impact of his dyslexia, and how falling in love with photography unlocked a relentless work ethic. His unlikely entrypoint into image-making was joining a group of skinheads as a teenager, mainly because he liked the look of the girls. He talks about the life-changing experience of building a house in his twenties, with a certain young architect named David Chipperfield. We discuss the future of AI, how being a photographer gives him unique access to anyone in the world, and the day he turned Lady Gaga into a man. As Nick says, 'there’s nothing more important than the spaces you live in, for shaping you, how you feel about things, making you feel positive about life and love.' He's full of wisdom and wit, and this is certainly a conversation I will always remember.
This conversation was recorded in person at SHOWstudio, London.
For more on Nick Knight:
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Production: Hannah Phillips
Music: Father
Graphic Design: Tom Young
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Known as the Queen of Colour, India has designed upbeat bars and radical restaurants from Miami to Mexico City. Her Gallery restaurant at Sketch in London became one of the most inspirational spaces of our time, and single-handedly changed the public perception of the colour pink.
Last autumn, I hopped on the Eurostar to go and meet her at home in Paris. I arrived completely drenched from a rainstorm, but my frost-bitten cockles were soon warmed by a cup of tea and a fireside chat with India in her beautiful apartment. She told me about how her early years in Massachusetts influenced her love of bright colours, from the strawberry milkshakes she drank to the Technicolor cartoons she watched on TV. One day, she and her family relocated very suddenly to Germany, arriving to a neo-Gothic house straight out of the Addams Family. Her world turned black-and-white, and she felt like an unwelcome foreigner. Soon they moved on again, this time to France, where she started to find a way to express herself through making things and tapping into her creativity.
What I found so interesting about our conversation was discovering how India has reacted against her itinerant childhood and established a very defined sense of place as an adult. Her studio, her showroom and her home are all located in a single block in Paris, where she's lived for more than 25 years. She doesn't even have to cross the road to carry out all the functions of everyday life.
As India gets older, she feels increasingly drawn to her native countries of Iran and Egypt. She's bought a house in Arles that's hidden among cypress trees and reminds her of Tehran in the 1970s. All in all, India's past, present and future are acutely defined by the notion of home and belonging – everything that this podcast is about.This conversation was recorded in person at India’s home in Paris.
For more on India Mahdavi:
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Check out India's website
Read more about The Gallery at Sketch
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Check out Matt Gibberd’s latest book, A Modern Way To Live
Executive Producer: Kate Taylor of Feast Collective
Production: Hannah Phillips
Music: Father
Graphic Design: Tom Young
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09/14/23 • 54 min
Glenn's a brilliant curator and writer with a particular interest in craft. If that conjures up an image of lace doilies and crocheted waistcoats, then don't panic!
Back in 2011, he put together the amazing 'Postmodernism' exhibition at the V&A in London, which was a riot of Memphis pattern and colour; and more recently, he's co-curated a show called 'Mirror Mirror' at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Glenn writes beautifully – and his book Fewer, Better Things was a really big influence on my own book, A Modern Way to Live. A phrase he uses a lot is 'material intelligence', which is the idea that we should try to understand the things we choose to live with – where they've come from and how they've been made. I don’t know if it's material intelligence or old-fashioned fate that led Glenn to find his home in Upstate New York, but it really is the physical manifestation of everything he believes in. We also chatted about his place in east London, what it's like to be an identical twin, his thoughts on the metaverse and all sorts of other things. Glenn is one of the most erudite people I know and his thoughtfulness is something we could all learn from.
This episode was recorded in person at Glenn's east London home.
For more:
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Watch the B-52's 'Love Shack' music video
Check out the house built by a librarian's collection of bricks
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Executive Producer: Kate Taylor of Feast Collective
Production: Hannah Phillips
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08/17/23 • 50 min
Skye Gyngell is an Australian-born chef who has spent much of her career shaping the British food scene. I first became aware of her cooking when I visited Petersham Nurseries’ cafe in Richmond, which she opened in 2004 and later earned it a Michelin star. Nowadays she runs her own beautiful restaurant, Spring, at Somerset House in London, and is the culinary director of Hampshire hotel Heckfield Place. For this episode, Skye generously invited us into her home in west London and we talked about all sorts of things, including her favourite things to eat here and what it’s like being a mother to grown-up kids.
This conversation was recorded in person at Skye's home in West London.
For more:
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Visit Spring and Heckfield Place
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Check out Matt Gibberd’s latest book, A Modern Way To Live
Executive Producer: Kate Taylor of Feast Collective
Production: Hannah Phillips
Music: Father
Graphic Design: Tom Young
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Hans Ulrich Obrist: the celebrated curator on why home has always been a place of artistic discovery
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08/04/23 • 43 min
Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington, west London, and is universally acknowledged as one of the most important and prolific art curators of our time. When I spoke to him at his office, I discovered a force of nature with an energy unlike that of anyone I’ve met before. His notion of home is also pretty extreme. When he was a student, he turned his flat into a gallery and he’s lived in some of the world’s most famous house-museums. This episode doesn’t follow the usual format, but I think it’s a really interesting portrait of a brilliant man.
This conversation was recorded in person in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s office at the Serpentine gallery.
For more:
Head over to our website for more images of the places discussed
Visit The Serpentine Gallery
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Check out Matt Gibberd’s latest book, A Modern Way To Live
Executive Producer: Kate Taylor of Feast Collective
Production: Hannah Phillips
Music: Father
Graphic Design: Tom Young
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FAQ
How many episodes does Homing In have?
Homing In currently has 53 episodes available.
What topics does Homing In cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Design, Podcasts and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Homing In?
The episode title '1.5 Faye Toogood, Designer' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Homing In?
The average episode length on Homing In is 48 minutes.
How often are episodes of Homing In released?
Episodes of Homing In are typically released every 14 days, 17 hours.
When was the first episode of Homing In?
The first episode of Homing In was released on Jan 24, 2020.
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