Tobias Grey
Media
A gallery in Milan, a magazine you can wrap presents with and a digital delight from Leica.
Almost there
Montréal has slipped in our city rankings, joining others in our bottom five for the past two years. We welcome newcomer Seattle to the list and will be watching its progress closely.
Road to recovery
Big-name French pharma was conspicuously absent at this year’s annual Pharmagora fair. But far from fading into obscurity, the Paris show has been looking to Francophone African markets and the lucrative bio-organic sector.
Europe
How Sarkozy wings it in Me and My Motorcade, plus Luxembourg goes to the polls and bar room blues hit the UK.
BHL express
France’s leading philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy, is no ivory-tower thinker. This January he went to Gaza, says Pakistan is the worst rogue state and is a critic of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Vive la révolution
Change is in the air on Paris's Left Bank. On rue de Seine, fashion boutiques, restaurants and food outlets have breathed new life into the area, creating a new buzz about the place.
Try this at home
The most brilliantly effective ideas are usually the most simple. From trams delivering goods to field tests for aid programmes, these are examples Monocle believes will inspire civic leaders and governments.
Power of three
Beyond Copenhagen and Barcelona, which design cities are on the rise? We predict three lesser-known metropolises that are set to become the next global design hubs thanks to investment and organisation.
Welcome home
From fashion to toys, outsourced production lines are closing as companies rediscover local industries. This shift brings benefits to individual companies and suggests that not every western nation must be a service economy.
