Design / Arts
On the block
London’s Phillips de Pury Chicago’s Wright, Sweden’s Örnsbergsauktionen and Berlin-based online auction house Auctionata are put under the Monocle microscope. We look at how the auction design industry is keeping pace in…
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Design / Architecture
Monocolumn
Friday 8 March
Frank Lloyd wrong?
A New Jersey couple are causing controversy with their desire to move out of their Frank Lloyd Wright home – and then have *it* moved, brick by brick, to save it from falling into a river. A justified brouhaha or an unne…
The Review, episode 41
Chat with bookstores in Milan, Phnom Penh and Berlin. We talk K-pop with Bernie Cho, and Jules Wright of the Wapping Project discusses magazines.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Saturday 26 June
Rolling Stone gathers army boss
When Barack Obama announced that he was demoting General Stanley McChrystal on Wednesday, the President pointedly avoided identifying the magazine that had just dubbed his head of Afghanistan forces “The Runaway General”…
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Saturday 8 January
F Scott Fitzgerald up for grabs
He is unlikely to feature in literary forecasts for 2011, but F Scott Fitzgerald is set for a bumper year. On 1 January, 70 years after his death, he passed the all-important milestone in any creative career – the copyright…
Affairs / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Wednesday 19 January
America changes its tone towards Okinawa
The US-Japan relationship has not always been an equal one. However, a bruising visit to China last week made US Defense Secretary Robert Gates see Japan in an especially favourable light.
Design / Architecture
Ship shape
Milanese architect Claudio Dini was handed a brief to create a residence with a maritime feel, without going overboard on the nautical theme, so that the occupants could feel all at sea in their city dwelling.
Design / Craft
Best in show
Pottery, paper, furniture maker: it’s a varied mix at the For Stockists design show – which has gained a reputation as the place to spot Japan’s rising design talent.
Business / Retail
Shop flawless
In a world of disposable fashion and bad service, there are some stores that do get it right, and are seeing their profits boom. We profile five retail giants that should act as benchmarks for other floundering businesses…
Design / Architecture
Design/Architecture briefing
The For Stockists design and craft fair in Tokyo, a rehab centre in the Netherlands and a newly revamped medical faculty in Peru.
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
Monocle's round-up of the news, products and projects making waves this month.
Design / Craft
Keep on trucking
The furniture made by the husband and wife team behind Truck is so popular that the couple have been able to move into stunning new premises complete with workshop, showroom and their own café serving steak and doughnuts…
Design / Architecture
Design/Architecture Briefing
Latest news, projects and products, from a museum makeover in Seoul to beautifully designed cement packaging in Croatia.
Edits / Architecture
Expo 57: Rebels in hard hats
Maputo's turbulent history includes colonial rule, war and regime change. And it's a rich history told in the buildings that line the streets of Mozambique's capital.
Business / Management
All in a day's work
The nine-to-five grind and the daily schlep into our places of work is a routine we love to hate. But the truth is that we’re all secretly rather attached to our offices. And not necessarily for work-related reasons.
Edits / Aviation
Fight or flight
The future of Berlin’s Tempelhof airport is up in the air. Due for closure next year, campaigners are mounting one final bid to rescue this hugely symbolic airport that played starring roles in the Second World War and the…
Affairs / Politics
Americas Briefing
The view from the US campaign trail, fracking in Argentina and how the odds are looking for Mexico to get its first female president.
Affairs / Innovation
Here's to the future
There’s a real sense that we are entering a new era, with a fresh, sharp president in the White House and an economy in flux. Here five leading thinkers, writers and academics – Alain de Botton, Paula Scher, Andrew J Bac…