Kimberly Bradley
Palette cleanser
How Austria’s once-conservative seat of aesthetic endeavour learnt to love modernity.
Art of retail
Andreas Murkudis embodies the serenity of his conceptual retail spaces. We discover how the unflappable pastor of fashion and design manages his staff and keeps his cool as another Berlin outpost looms.
At your servus
Austrian rural-living magazine ‘Servus in Stadt & Land’ shows how the public’s thirst for print is being sated. Monocle meets the creative team to discover the simplicity in its success.
Making an entrance: AllesWirdGut
Meet the architecture firms creating elegant interior solutions that reflect owners’ personalities. In Bangkok, Christchurch and Vienna, their work imbues hotels and bars with warmth, cordiality and soul.
People’s palace: Henselmann Tower
Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee was the GDR's most famous street, lined with socialist ‘palaces of the workers’. Today these apartment blocks, particularly the Henselmann Tower, attract a discerning and creative community.
Bare essentials
Bikini Berlin is a newly redesigned complex mixing retail, culture and creative thinking about the public space. Once a fading relic of the Cold War, intelligent ideas from its new tenants are helping to…
Art in Berlin
Berlin’s vibrant arts scene is getting serious and growing up. Creatives are making real investments in the city to transform its unusual spaces.
