For our summer shoot we’re strolling beside the sea in crisp, bright separates, sleek swimwear and smart sunglasses. The location? A once-mocked resort with some new-wave architecture.
It’s been a busy few days for many of the world’s top number crunchers. Following the summit of G20 finance ministers in Baden-Baden over the weekend, the EU contingent will be in Brussels today discussing matters that…
The past year has allowed for time to pause and ponder over many things. When looking ahead, these are the ways our writers believe politics, urban planning, commuting and climate change policy can move on in ways that…
It looked so good for the fledgling Tea Party back in 2010. Riding a wave of Republican voter disenchantment, their support peaked at 32 per cent of the American population, according to a Gallup poll. Fast-forward to this…
The largest of its kind, Orgatec is a biannual trade fair that draws office furniture manufacturers from around the globe to the outskirts of Köln. It’s a chance for the industry’s largest names to showcase the office of…
To celebrate Monocle’s 2015 Quality of Life Survey, editor in chief Tyler Brûlé and AkzoNobel hosted a midsummer party at our London headquarters. The event provided an opportunity to honour this year’s winners and celeb…
In our new “Secret to...” series, supper club host Gabriel Waterhouse shares his tips on organising a friendly feast in your home with great-quality food and (just as important) an entertaining atmosphere.
Like viewing an opulent fashion fair through a set of x-ray glasses, Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is a pageant of corsets, briefs and lingerie design from the last 300 years…
As Europe’s political parties worry about losing touch with apathetic voters, the Danes have a solution: invite them to go on a summer break with you. Folkemødet festival gathers the nation’s leaders together to bring…
Buyers braved the cold to make it to this season’s Pitti Uomo menswear show, with numbers up on last year. A sense of calm about the future was reflected in the relaxed fit of items on show.
The renovation of Rotterdam’s Justus van Effen complex, a modernist 1920s apartment block, is a masterclass in how to restore a historic building to its former glory. Designed by Michiel Brinkman, the yellow-brick pile set…
After the Nazi shutdown many of the Bauhaus alumni ended up at Harvard – and it was there that Germany’s most eminent design school’s first US exhibition started back in 1919. It’s fitting then that the athenaeum has now…
The second correspondent in our series looking at foreign coverage of the US presidential election is Li Xuejiang, Washington bureau chief for China’s ‘People’s Daily’, the state controlled newspaper with a circulation of…