Gillian Dobias
Miami: The Monocle Travel Guide
Miami has a lot going for it: its shoreline, year-round warm weather and diverse population. Our new travel guide will help you explore the neighbourhoods to discover its full potential. We’ll introduce you to…
Hong Kong: The Monocle Travel Guide
Hong Kong is more diverse than you’d imagine. Navigate the futuristic skyways connecting office towers and you’ll pass over temples from which incense smoke trails towards the heavens. The Monocle Travel Guide to Hong…
Tokyo: The Monocle Travel Guide
In a city where choice is everywhere, The Monocle Travel Guide to Tokyo will navigate you through some of our favourite corners of this vast metropolis. Expect to fall in love with the dazzling…
Sydney Residence: Harry and Penelope Seidler House
Far removed from the skyscrapers and residential towers for which architect Harry Seidler became known, the house he designed with his wife is governed by Bauhaus aesthetics that are just as forward-thinking today as…
New-generation animators
With the success of Pixar came an avalanche of computer-generated animation but not all animators are following the hi-tech pack. Monocle Films travels to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and southern England in search…
Portrait of a Nation
Singapore is not used to letting people do whatever they want and thus it has been stuck with a moribund art scene. But the opening of the new National Gallery aims to change perceptions…
Christmas shopping in Bassano del Grappa
Monocle films indulges in a spot of festive retail in an idyllic Italian city. Join us for the best in fashion, books, sweets and more.
Cosy Homes: Die Es
South African architects Gawie and Gwen Fagan designed and built their family home on a dramatic spot between Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean. Die Es is an ode to vernacular architecture with a…
Cosy Homes: Hellerup Estate
In the first of two films to celebrate the publication of The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes, we visit the residence of Knud Erik Hansen, managing director of Carl Hansen & Søn and grandson…
Porto Revival
Monocle films visits Porto to discover how one city leader is determined to stop gentrification destroying his city.
