We jump on the piece of furniture that gives the podcast its name this week. From couch potato to couch surfer we look at how a large, soft object for the home has impacted our culture. Guests: Mario Bellini, architect @mariobelliniarchitects Rosa Park, Editor of Cereal Magazine @cerealmag Elizabeth Glickfeld, Design critic and founder of Dirty Furniture @dirtyfurnituremag Rosa Park, Editor of Cereal Magazine As the editor and co-founder of Cereal—an independent biannual magazine celebrated for its distinct take on travel and style—Rosa Park has an eye for good design and quality craftsmanship, a well-tuned ear for strong cultural narratives. Park has lived a peripatetic existence, zigzagging her way across the globe from Seoul to Vancouver to Boston followed by a stint in New York where she cut her teeth working in fashion and beauty marketing for five years, before moving to Bristol to start fresh on a new career path that eventually led her to Bath where she launched Cereal alongside partner Rich Stapleton. When work brings her to New York, Park bases herself downtown. Elizabeth Glickfeld, Design critic and founder of Dirty Furniture Elizabeth Glickfeld is a design writer based in London. Writing across two- and three-dimensional design and visual culture, she writes for various publications including Eye, Disegno, Design Issues, Domus and Frieze magazine. She is co-author of the book 100 ideas that changed design (to be published by Laurence-King in 2015), co-founder and -editor of the independent design magazine Dirty Furniture and a lecturer in design history at Kingston University. She holds a masters degree from the Royal College of Art in Critical Writing in Art and Design and was a lecturer and tutor in design theory and history at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. She has also trained and worked internationally as a graphic designer.