01Bae Se Hwa’s walnut reception desk
02Staff lounge with low walnut furniture
03Seung Eun Lee, CEO of SEL
04Traditional Korean Cabreuva wood floor
05Guest entertaining room
06Innocean’s president, Kun Hee Ahn
07Glass partitions open up the space
08Natural materials are used throughout – the conference room has a custom-made desk and Antonio Citterio’s AC 4 chairs for Vitra
09Executive offices use mid-century chairs by Norman Cherner
Innocean, a global advertising agency, understands the importance of a well-designed HQ to impress clients and motivate staff. Monocle takes a look at its recent facelift, which combines Korean tradition and mid-century furniture.
Issue 63
Inviting interiors, inspiring inventories and artisanal appeal: we’ve picked out three stores that are truly dedicated to design.
Issue 8
In central Milan it makes more sense to renovate than trade up. Over four-fifths of the country’s residents live in private homes, and a 100 sq m property in Milan costs on average €380,000. Although one as covetable as…
Issue 34
The Milan Furniture Fair may be over but that’s really just the beginning. Manufacturers, buyers, designers and journalists the world over are now ruminating on what they’ve seen, whom they’ve met and, above all, what the…
Issue 1
Almost 20 per cent of Sweden’s population live in greater Stockholm, making the pressure for housing intense. Many of the city’s 180,000 apartments are co-ops. So, when you find a great flat, you are reluctant to leave it…
Issue 30
Unlike the usual identikit winter lodge, this remastered getaway in the French Alps is inventive – but its unique sense of style doesn’t detract from its homely charm.
Issue 27
Paris-based architects Ciguë were tasked with turning an apartment from a design disaster into a space suitable for three firms to work in. They went one step further and made the bespoke furniture too.
Issue 20
Set among the embassies and doctors’ surgeries in Marylebone, London, this petite penthouse pulled in Swiss carpenters along with British and Danish storage solutions to deal with a mass of media and an upside-down layout…
Issue 19
In the first edition of Monocle’s Design Dialogues, an intimate series of discussions on key design issues, we throw the spotlight on the future of the workplace. You can also listen to the full discussion at [monocle.com]…
Issue 8
Danish design hardly needs encouragement but Rud Christiansen’s The Royal Cafe places the country’s High Modernism in its proper regal and culinary context. Pull up a bespoke Ant chair for global food, iconic branding and…
Issue 6
Muscular Icelandic gyms, Spain's eat in the White House and an explosive Beirut house.
Issue 1
Innovative housing in Vienna and Zürich; Japanese office design; Düsseldorf makeover and an orderly Swiss kindergarden.
Issue 28
In a radical shift from its traditional brand identity, Sugamo Shinkin Bank has adopted an innovative and colourful design for its new Niiza branch. It looks more like an art gallery than a bank, and that seems to be having…
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