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Monocle’s Quality of Life survey 2024: The 20 best places to live
Much of what defines a city’s quality of life can’t be quantified. We take a wider look to rank this year’s 20 best places to live.

Hacking Gutenberg: The letterpress studio that is preserving the art of print
A German typographer and his team are pressing for visibility in print in new and innovative ways.


Tempting plates: Here’s what’s on our global menu this month
We sample what’s brewing in a Norwegian coffeehouse in Tokyo, reel in delicacies from the deep in Stockholm and fill up on Anglo-French fare in London.

The Monocle Design Awards 2024
The latest edition of the Monocle Design Awards is here to celebrate the year’s most inspiring and ingenious products, models and structures as they set the standard across private and public spaces.

The culture agenda: Brazil’s publishing push, the Venice Biennale at 60 and Hans Zimmer’s world-building
Art: VeniceAltered imaging If you happen to be an artist at the apex of your career, what do you do when given carte blanche at one of Europe’s most prestigious exhibition spaces? The stock…

Schirmer/Mosel celebrates a new chapter
The German art-book publisher celebrates its 50th birthday, we flip through the many pages of its past.

Fine prints
Publisher Lars Müller has long championed the power of print. Now a new online project is offering up his archive to collectors.

Inside storeys
What makes a well-considered development? Our pick of new projects offer some intriguing clues and the resulting buildings are becoming industry benchmarks.

Spaces that inspire: exploring seven architecturally unique places around the world
There is no such thing as neutral architecture. Every part of a building’s design, from its layout to the texture of its materials and the balance of natural and artificial light, has a profound…
