Friday 18 September
It’s as if the Lehman brothers had never met. A quick look at the list of new cars unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show (open to the public until 27 September), reveals an unprecedented number of outlandish, expe…
The auto industry is facing a moment of significant technological and social change as electric power begins to gather pace in its charge against fossil fuels. Monocle reports from the Frankfurt motor show on the effect…
Frankfurt's biannual motor show is where the big guns roll out their great hopes for the future. While quality and newness are touchstones, global warming was the hot topic and "hybrid" the buzz word. Monocle's Robert…
The most anticipated date on the bathroom industry calendar is the ISH (International Sanitation Heating) fair in Frankfurt. Monocle was there to seek out the latest and the best in taps, sinks, baths and toilets.
From toilets and baths to energy-efficient heating systems, the world’s biggest sanitation trade fair is where you’ll first see the technology that eventually makes it into our bathrooms. *Monocle* pays a visit.
Thursday 15 September
There is hardly a whiff of diesel or rumble of engine at the 64th version of Frankfurt’s IAA Motor show, which opened yesterday.
Deutsche Börse, a public company since 2001, operates Germany’s biggest stock exchange, in Frankfurt. With locations in 14 countries, the company is valued at €26bn, making it one of the largest exchange organisations in…
The conservative values of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung have always been echoed in its design. But the expectations of the modern reader – and falling sales – prompted a complete redesign. *Monocle* gains exclusive…
In the run-up to the Frankfurt Motor Show, Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé talks to Adrian van Hooydonk, head of design at BMW, about designing cars to suit the times, consumer expectations and the relationship between…
Making the word’s busiest cities a little more ordered should be top of most urban planners to-do lists. And when one city strikes on an idea that works, it seems the rest of the globe is keen to catch up.
An assessment of the value of apprenticeships, we look at the future of Europe a century away, and head to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Whether it is solid German engineering at Hochschule Pforzheim, new technologies at the RCA in London or size limitations at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, what rolls off students’ drawing boards today could…
We meet the mind behind Wantful – a service to find the perfect gift – and look at the upper echelon of the hairdressing industry, while Gillian Dobias visits Paperworld in Frankfurt.
Sasha Issenberg previews the US vice-presidential candidate debate, we hear from the Frankfurt Book Fair, and get the latest on Syria.
We preview tonight’s vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan and report live from the world's largest bookfair, in Frankfurt.
Robert Bound’s maiden voyage on the seas of culture visits the Frieze Art Fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair and a few of our favourite record stores in Tokyo.
Why thousands of Spanish workers are on strike, Frankfurt’s new mayor discusses his Jewish heritage, and a look at the resignation of Sweden’s defence minister.
Roslyn Sulcas of the International Herald Tribune reviews “Dance Umbrella” and Simon Prosser of Hamish Hamilton and Penguin previews the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé presents the first edition of The Monocle Review. On this programme we highlight Narcotecture in Herat, a cosier version of Davos at Tällberg, a rock festival with a difference in Japan and a…
Michael Steen of the FT discusses today’s European Central Bank meeting in Frankfurt, we chat with our man in Budapest, and check in with our correspondent at Pitti Uomo in Florence.
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