No one is better placed to offer valuable advice on tricky projects and ambitious, world-changing actions than the people at the sharp end - precisely the kind of individuals giving the benefit of their hard-won experience…
With ethical production techniques all the rage and consumers demanding to know exactly how and where their best-loved products are manufactured, the time has come for big brands to become a whole lot more transparent.
Here are five of Melbourne’s newest off-the-radar bars and kitchens opened by young chefs, baristas, barkeepers and designers.
A tour of Copenhagen’s many Michelin-starred restaurants, and we sit down with a Danish designer over a plate of Smørrebrød.
The Hollywood actor, director and fashion designer shares his ‘last meal’ in a restaurant built into the rocks near his home in Provence.
Can there be too many restaurants in a city? We visit San Francisco to meet locals who think so. We also find out if Filipino cuisine could become popular around the world and meet restaurant designer Martin Brudnizski in…
The Danish designer chooses a historic restaurant, full of personal memories, in his adopted US hometown as the venue for his hypothetical ‘farewell banquet’.
Yorkshireman John Pawson is an architect and designer who has lived in Japan and is known for his stripped-back designs. For his last meal he chooses a seven-course meal at a Japanese restaurant in London’s Piccadilly.
Sunday 5 September
Fauchon snack shops alongside a Mariage Frères restaurant kitted out with Inga Sempé table lamps and waiters in white bow-tie uniforms – this isn’t the food offering of an upmarket retail emporium but the newly inaugurated…
Fashion designer Jean Touitou enjoys good food and eating in down-to-earth settings. For his ‘last meal’ he has chosen Maisen, a tonkatsu restaurant on a quiet back street in Tokyo’s Jingumae district.
Milton Glaser is best known for creating the I <3 NY logo, but his 50-year career has included much more. He founded New York magazine, and has designed record covers, posters, restaurant interiors, packaging and, most…
Wednesday 13 April
For all the fun of the galleries, warehouse exhibitions and street parties elsewhere in Milan, the vast Rho fairground on the city’s outskirts is where the real business of Salone takes place.
Saturday 27 February
Last year there were many restaurant closures in Manhattan. Across Gotham more than 500 establishments from ambitious upstarts to legends such as Tavern on the Green shut their doors due to the economic downturn.
Friday 28 October
Highlights of the weekend include Ai Weiwei in Taipei, a food fest in Sydney and design fair in Tokyo.
Friday 19 February
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…
Friday 30 September
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection includes farmhouse cuisine in New York, a pop-up cinema in London, and an engaging design fair in Vienna.
Friday 7 September
This weekend enjoy some Louisiana-style cooking in New York, go shamelessly retro at Future Cinema’s interpretation of Grease in London, and check out the new album from Cat Power.
Friday 6 August
The Industrial Designers Society of America’s annual International Conference brings some 600 designers, engineers and professional thinkers from around the world to Portland this weekend.
Thursday 28 February
A New York institution has landed in London. But shouldn't cities be excited for their own homegrown successes?
Tuesday 25 May
Russia is to urban planning what Saudi Arabia is to nightlife, so the arrival of Dutch legend Rem Koolhaas in Moscow yesterday to launch a new architecture institute is a very welcome move.
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