Kenzo Tange’s spectacular Shinjuku Park Tower has defined Tokyo’s skyline since its completion in 1994. The top 14 floors are home to the much-loved Park Hyatt Tokyo. Here, Monocle checks in for the last time before the…
Once seen as little more than watches for children, Swatch’s timepieces are now coveted by seasoned collectors. We ask CEO Alain Villard to tell us why.
Elegantly straddling the worlds of luxury and popular culture, Chanel is going from strength to strength more than a century since it was founded. Monocle speaks to its president of fashion, Bruno Pavlovsky, about its…
Having picked post-industrial Inca as the place to settle, Italian designer Chiara Ferrari is helping to spearhead the town’s creative ascent from her converted studio.
True to the principles of its former owner – painter Joaquín Torrents Lladó – the 14-room Portella maximises light and serenity, with touches of Venice.
A good book amounts to far more than just printed matter. Here, we explore the volumes that have touched the lives of 50 friends of Monocle, drawn from the worlds of design, culture, food and more.
Good things come to those who wait. And wait. But is that old adage the reason why we’re all too eager to form an orderly line in anticipation of some hitherto unavailable luxury – a new phone, say, or even a particularly…
Turkey has found itself with a new diplomatic purpose since Russia invaded Ukraine: the trusted mediator. After years of being seen as unreliable, even mercurial, by the West, and spats with neighbours, it is playing a key…