Edits / Industry
The hot ticket
The Ajeto glassmaking factory makes one-off pieces to commission for artists and designers. Glass master and owner Petr Novotný believes this is the way forward for the industry – not mass production.
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Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 1 April
Weekend Agenda: 2/3 April 2011
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global pick of exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, music to spend Sunday listening to, and a cookery class to teach you Sunday lunch, Cairo-style.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 14 September
Weekend agenda, 15/16 September
This weekend enjoy an unusual opera in New York, check out Hong Kong’s best new store, and listen out for the new album from New York band Grizzly Bear.
Affairs / Arts
Monocolumn
Monday 1 February
The wannabe art capital
One hundred and sixty years after the California Gold Rush lured thousands west with the promise of treasure, the droves are heading back to the Golden State.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 17 August
Weekend agenda, 18/19 August
This weekend check out some Arab art in Tokyo, tuck-in to San Francisco’s street food festival and enjoy the new album from pianist Chilly Gonzales.
Design / Interior design
The secret garden
Among the high-rises and inner city bustle of São Paulo, a new home offers quiet solitude while retaining openness. The V4 house from MK27 architects invites nature, the neighbourhood and Monocle to share its space.
Design / Monocle
Monocle with coffee and cake
We’ve been fine-tuning the espresso machines, testing the pastries and polishing the counters. We’re now ready to open the doors to our first London café.
Business / Craft
Focus on the Future
Making tortoiseshell glasses by hand is a rare and exacting skill. One of the last practitioners, Maison Bonnet, is making sure the art survives, thanks to its keen young apprentice.
Business / Manufacturing
Beer leader
Heineken and Carlsberg have been changing the Swiss beer market by buying up the country’s independent breweries. But in an Alpine village, a small company dedicated to artisanship and good design is standing firm.
Edits / Travel
It's Arrived
It’s not just 30 minutes closer to central Tokyo than Narita. The new international terminal at Haneda Airport is also a unique retail concept.
Business / Industry
Desert Dream
Once a provincial backwater, the Jordanian port town of Aqaba is in the midst of a vast regeneration programme that will reposition it as the ‘gateway to the Levant’.
Business / Fashion
Hair raising
The Bronner Brothers’ first hair show attracted 300 people at a local YMCA. Now one of the largest producers of African American haircare products, their legendary trade shows are part circus, part religious meeting.
Design / Architecture
Design/Architecture Briefing
The new Museum of Art and Archeology in Portugal's Côa Valley, plus other projects and players to watch.
Design / Property
In the family way
Richard Neutra had a major impact on modernist architecture in southern California and his Reunion House in Silver Lake, occupied by his elder son and his family, remains one of the best, most authentic examples of his work…
Culture / Arts
Map it out
Mapmaking is an art unto itself, an intricate task of recording the most minute details and, more importantly, interpreting the world for tourists and travellers. But they’re also open to manipulation – once the politicians…
Design / Publishing
Making airwaves
Hilversum was the centre of Dutch broadcasting for the best part of a century, a model media city of daring architecture. Hit hard by changes in the industry, a period of self-reflection has the city searching for new…
Design / Interior design
Top twenty five
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.
Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 52
This month’s selection of desirable things include cashmere bowties, bicycle bags, some velvety wine, handmade soaps and smart kitchenware.
Edits / Travel
Monocle travel guide
Our favourites from around the world this month include a sushi spot in London, a lovers’ retreat in Greece and a Taipei hotel full of Warhol and Dalí originals. We also profile Norwegian airline Widerøe.