Every night the TransAsya Express departs from Istanbul heading for Tehran. It takes three days and two nights to reach its destination, time enough for you to leave the European lifestyle of western Turkey far behind. Saul…
Belgium may be a small country of just 10.5 million people but it’s home to a powerful media empire that understands its market’s every desire. Monocle meets its co-owner and CEO Christian Van Thillo, who took the helm…
Every night the TransAsya Express departs from Istanbul heading for Tehran. It takes three days and two nights to reach its destination, time enough for you to leave the European lifestyle of western Turkey far behind.…
Thursday 30 September
I’ve just been to Hannover to attend an exhibition of vans and commercial vehicles (actually, I rather enjoyed it).
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…
Banana Reublic heads to Europe, Ferragamo has bags of style and the man in the Vans.
In Germany home-owners can generate power and sell it to the national grid. Genoa runs an inspiring van-share scheme that’s cutting congestion and in Estonia they have adopted a simple fiscal reform that’s kept the economy…
Monocle meets the founder of London's Museum of Everything as he prepares for his latest eccentric exhibition.
We get local expertise from bookshops in Berlin, New York and Fairbanks Alaska, and are joined by style writing icon Lucia Van Der Post.
Antwerp Fashion special: we attend the Royal Academy graduation show, chat to Walter van Beirendonck, and talk with jury member Penny Martin of The Gentlewoman.
The new shoemaker with old-fashioned values, hand-embroidered dresses from Mexico and Peru, a new take on desert boots, and Adidas's latest diffusion.
The origami roof of the new Copenhagen Center for Cancer and Health suggests that this is no ordinary hospital. Nord Architects have created a healing environment with thoughtful, original strokes. Their bold design won…
Wednesday 24 April
The capital of EU bureaucracy sheds its less-than-thrilling image when Art Brussels comes to town.
Thomas Demand, one of Germany's most iconic contemporary artists, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Demand's work is inspired by photographs that have become memories, recreated as…
The national identity of countries can shift radically and at a speed that leaves their inhabitants gasping: think of the former Soviet Union. Here leading thinkers consider what might, or should, change in the way nations…
Tuesday 10 July
I’m going to stick my neck out a little here and say perhaps, just a little bit, we need to be careful not to write cars out of our cities at the rate we currently are.
Thursday 24 December
As architects down tools for the holidays, it’s a time for reflection.
Monocle pulls back the tablecloth at our favourite brasserie for a flash of heel, a hint of calf and a couple of handsome ankles and some good brogues, wedges and loafers.
Tuesday 19 October
The Interieur biennale, which opened in the sleepy Belgian town of Kortrijk at the weekend, is an insider favourite on the design fair circuit.
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