Design / Architecture
Design & architecture briefing
The latest buildings, most innovative products and most promising talent.
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Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 26
In this month’s rundown of vital life improvements we have a two-faced candle, a three-legged stool and 12 notebooks to get you through the coming year.
Design / Small Business
Do it yourself
Monocle meets five creative businesses and entrepreneurs who have gone their own way, and we ask them how, and why, they did it.
Design / Craft
Clay pride
Spain’s northwestern coast is guarding a design secret, one that Monocle has decided to share. Sargadelos is a workers’ cooperative that has been producing exquisite ceramics on and off for 200 years.
Design / Architecture
Design/Architecture briefing
Floating homes on a man-made lake, a beautiful bamboo recyclable inflight food tray, and fine Finnish furniture.
Design / Craft
Tasmanian Craft
In Tasmania, talented craftspeople are making use of the island's natural materials to design and build furniture, ceramics, and more. Monocle tours the island to meet the designer-makers putting Tasmanian personality on…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 31 August
Weekend agenda, 1/2 September
Highlights this weekend include a David Bowie film retrospective in London, a San Francisco design exhibit, ceramics in Copenhagen, music from Detroit and dining out on hot dogs and champagne
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 13 April
Weekend agenda 13/14 April
This weekend visit the reopening of a museum icon in Amsterdam, check out some contemporary ceramic art in Buenos Aires, and enjoy the new album from Stockholm electro duo – The Knife.
Business / Technology
Techno tradition
Kyoto is the traditional home of Japanese artisans who make highly detailed ceramics and perfectly woven silks. That same set of skills has also helped it become the country’s hi-tech heartland.
Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: Hand to mouth
Renowned ceramic artist Edmund de Waal chooses an Italian restaurant in London’s Soho neighbourhood for his ‘last meal’. He’s fascinated by the visual experience of eating and at his alloted restaurant the food comes tapas…
Edits / Travel
Their bright materials
Functional meets beautiful in Taiwan’s cultured capital, and its independent shops are abuzz with creativity. We’ve been taking a fresh look at its wares, from cycling to ceramics, and talking to those lighting up the lives…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 2 September
Weekend agenda: 3/4 September
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes Danish design in Dalston, ethnic beats from Mali, and new young cinema from a Greek-born director.
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Friday 19 February
The new market makers
From Oman to the Netherlands architects are creating markets for the 21st century as urban planners realise that they offer a retail and social model that people like (as long as the rubbish crates arrive at the end of the…
Design / Interior design
Monocolumn
Sunday 10 April
The Salone series: Seven year itch at Established & Sons
There’s a great deal of expectation riding on this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan. As well as being the 50th anniversary of the fair, it’s also the 150th anniversary of Italian unification.
Design / Small Business
Monocolumn
Thursday 20 October
The resurgence in regional craft businesses
How right was Joni Mitchell when she sang you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 28 October
Weekend agenda, 29/30 October
Highlights of the weekend include Ai Weiwei in Taipei, a food fest in Sydney and design fair in Tokyo.
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Thursday 24 December
2010: Optimism is building for architects
As architects down tools for the holidays, it’s a time for reflection.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 22 December
Weekend agenda 22/23 December
This weekend, check out the Matisse retrospective in New York, enjoy a selection of Britain’s best artists at London’s ICA and snap up a one-off festive musical treat.
Affairs / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 14 April
The Fiera in pictures
Massimiliano Fuksas’s 211,500 sq m Fiera, in the Rho Pero suburbs of Milan, is where the vast majority of the business action takes place during Salone.
Design / Interior design
Mode in Japan
Alongside the vast Tokyo International Gift Show – 2,400 exhibitors and counting – has grown a smaller, carefully edited craft and design show called For Stockists. But this bijou event is now the hot ticket, thanks to its…