Takashi Kuwahara
Observation
Readers demand a village edition, Lamb's Conduit Street shows why small streets matter, and Starbucks learns the hard way that community can't be franchised.
Living large
In Monocle’s dream residential building, we’d include features of 19th-century Parisian flats and early 20th-century New York apartments. Attention developers: veneers and fashionable embellishments are not the way forward.
Observation
Many hotels bombard us with unnecessary extras when we just need the simple things done well. Isn’t it time they ditched the gimmickry and concentrated on the basics of good hospitality?
Observation
The Unravelled Kingdom: We turn our attention to the UK's national brand, a topic close to Monocle HQ, examining its current state as issues of nation building and branding come to the fore.
