Edits / Entertainment
18 May 2013
Weekend Agenda 18/19
This weekend pick up some great new art in Amsterdam, learn about California’s design heritage in Tokyo, and enjoy the summery new album from UK musician Bibio.
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Culture / Arts
Paris Photo LA
We head to Hollywood to shoot the world's most celebrated photographic art fair, this year taking place for the first time at Paramount Pictures Studios in LA.
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Business / Retail
Taipei Retail
Taipei has long lived in the shadow of its glitzier neighbours when it comes to retail. But now the range and quality of products on offer are firming up the Taiwanese capital’s place on Asia’s shopping map.
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Affairs / Society
Istanbul inspired
With the city’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics in full swing, the fabric of Istanbul is shaping up. We meet the cultural and commercial players flexing their muscles.
Business / Watches
Baselworld Watch Fair 2013
Baselworld is the biggest event on the watchmaking calendar, attracting leading players and emerging names from the world of timekeeping. Monocle drops in to preview the latest horological finery.
Design / Food & Drink
The Monocle Café – London
Our espresso machine is finely-tuned, our pastries tested and our cake counter gleaming. The doors are now open to Monocle's first London café.
Affairs / Politics
Man on a mission
Mexico’s new president has drafted a bold to-do list for his country: end poverty, fight crime and radically change worldwide opinion. Monocle caught up with Enrique Peña Nieto in Italy’s capital to find out how he intends…
Design / Architecture
Part of the furniture
Architect and designer Luigi Caccia Dominioni will turn 100 at the end of this year, having plied his trade in Milan since the 1940s. He works from outside to in, as famous for his exteriors as he is for his interior fur…
Edits / Travel
Expo 63: Heads above water
After the demise of its cod-fishing industry, Fogo Island had lost its soul. Its saviour came in the form of a returning islander and her lifeline of cultural projects, a new hotel and jobs.
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Culture
The Review, 83
Saturday 18 May
We assess The Great Gatsby in both film and ballet with Tim Robey and Donald Hutera, preview Europe’s summer jazz festivals with Mike Flynn, and soak up the atmosphere as the clock counts down to the Eurovision Song Contest…
Culture
The Stack, 38
Saturday 18 May
Monocle’s editor Andrew Tuck is joined by founder of Anew magazine, Martina Mondadori, and deputy editor of Architecture Review, Will Hunter, to look over a fresh stack of premium print.
Affairs
The Curator, 83
Saturday 18 May
Monocle's news editor Tom Edwards hosts a collection of highlights from this week's programming – including a visit to the Frieze Art Fair in New York, and in celebration of the weird and the wonderful, we visit the Euro…
Affairs / Urbanism
Desert Operation
Issue 63
It’s twice as big in area as Tel Aviv but it has only 200,000 residents – and a reputation for being dusty and dreary. Be’er-Sheva’s mayor, however, plans to change that. But the makeover leaves little space for the local…
Design / Interior design
Top twenty five
Issue 63
The objects that fill our homes may not define us but they do have a subtle effect on mood and creativity – so be nice to your subconscious and let the natural, simple and handcrafted surround you.
Design / Manufacturing
Settee slicker
Issue 63
B&B Italia is renowned for its curvaceous and audacious design. We dropped in to its hi-spec hideout near Milan to cast an eye over the craftsmanship that defines its globally expanding business.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 18 May
Weekend Agenda 18/19
This weekend pick up some great new art in Amsterdam, learn about California’s design heritage in Tokyo, and enjoy the summery new album from UK musician Bibio.
Affairs
The Monocle Daily, 405
Friday 17 May
Regular check-ins and live interviews from the US and all across the Americas add to the mix of guests and analysis from our studios in London.
Affairs
The Globalist: Asia, 35
Friday 17 May
This one-hour show airs at 20.00 London time and focuses on the news agenda in Asia and Oceania, including a review of the region’s front pages.
Edits
The Menu, 83
Friday 17 May
A visit to Genoa’s Slow Fish trade fair where chefs from all over the world devise new ways of serving seafood, we visit Kewpie Corporation in Tokyo, and find out some of Turkey’s nearly forgotten food treasures.
Affairs
The Briefing, 402
Friday 17 May
We consider whether it's the best chance in a generation to deliver a reunified Cyprus, find out how Cannes is transformed from sleepy seaside town into global media hub, and have our fortune told – Azerbaijan style.
Business / Retail
Taipei Retail
May 2013
Taipei has long lived in the shadow of its glitzier neighbours when it comes to retail. But now the range and quality of products on offer are firming up the Taiwanese capital’s place on Asia’s shopping map.
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Friday 17 May
Let there be lots and lots of light
We never saw it coming but that's because it was too dark: our design editor takes an unexpected dislike to the dimmer switch.After a decade of preaching the importance of low lighting, I’m going to stick my neck out, perform an audacious design U-turn, put my hands in the air and wave a small white flag of surrender: maybe I got it wrong. My…
Affairs
Midori House, 403
Friday 17 May
A talk with one of the few journalists to has covered the state of Western Sahara’s “forgotten war”, we also ask how rare colour footage of 1920s London has shifted perceptions of the British capital, and go live to Malmo…
Affairs
The Globalist, 405
Friday 17 May
We ask the EU’s chief foreign policy spokesman whether Iran is finally ready to engage in nuclear talks, find out why Germany's military is about to undergo change, and look through today’s Latin American front pages.