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Josh Fehnert

Travel and restaurants

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A new opening in New Orleans, a former mayor’s home in Amsterdam, plenty of hotel openings, independent cinemas and a top shop in Lisbon. Here are our monthly travel tips.

  • Issue #144
  • 1 min read
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Business

Business

Rethinking Japanese express-train design and the Swiss app conquering paperless ticketing.

  • Issue #144
  • 8 min read
Business
Entrepreneurialism

Advance to ‘go’

The past 12 months have seen many best-laid plans scuppered and refocused the attention of some onto pursuing jobs they want in industries they admire. Are you game for a change?

  • The Entrepreneurs #4
  • 1 min read
Advance  to ‘go’
Monocle Films

Monocle preview: May issue, 2021

Monocle’s May issue lifts the lid on our picks of the world’s best-designed buildings and products in our inaugural Design Awards. From big names such as David Chipperfield to small pleasures like electric switches,…

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  • 1 min watch
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Design

Stick ’em up!

When done well, posters can persuade us to buy a pen, observe social norms or fly to a faraway land. They look great too. Put them on your walls.

  • Issue #143
  • 6 min read
Tom Eckersley 1960 poster for Society of Industrial Artists exhibition featuring green eyes and blue arrow
Food & Drink

Food & Drink

Chef Fumihiko Kono transforms his grandmother's Kyoto townhouse into the city's most sought-after reservation, serving seasonal charcoal-grilled dishes that blend Japanese tradition with European technique.

  • Issue #142
  • 7 min read
Food & Drink
Business

How to impress

Anyone who says the past 12 months haven’t made them think again isn’t telling the truth. Here are 20 ideas for changing your business for the better, being brave and taking action.

  • Issue #142
  • 11 min read
Illustration of a smartphone charging on a desk with a battery icon in a speech bubble.
Affairs

Monocle’s digital decency manifesto

Technology is everywhere but that ubiquity can come at a cost to our health, wellbeing and the quality of our conversations. View our manifesto for a more dignified relationship with all things digital and…

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  • 2 min watch
An illustration of two people reconciling
Hospitality

Open sesame

After a hard year, there are still reasons to be cheerful about the hotel industry. We scan the hospitality horizon for the openings set to define the year ahead.

  • Issue #141
  • 10 min read
Architectural rendering of the Reykjavík Edition hotel showing a modern multi-story building with grid-pattern windows
Affairs

Order of merit?

From Zürich's pricey bin bags to Japan's anti-splash driving laws, these municipal regulations prove that thoughtful governance can nudge citizens toward better behaviour without heavy-handed enforcement.

  • Issue #141
  • 4 min read
Classical statue figure reaching toward a woman in green dress holding what appears to be a shoe

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