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Design

Expo 32: Life in miniature

In studios around the world, model-makers sit with scalpels and glue creating everything from mini cities to shrunken ships, all to secure budgets to build the real thing. Monocle meets these skilled artisans.

  • Issue #32
  • 9 min read
Expo 32: Life in miniature
Fashion

Margaret Howell

For her last meal, British fashion designer Margaret Howell would choose a simple, quintessentially English picnic on a windswept beach near her weekend home on the Suffolk coast.

  • Issue #32
  • 7 min read
Margaret Howell
Travel and restaurants

Café cultured

Coffee is a way of life for New Zealanders and there are no finer connoisseurs than Coffee Supreme. The company’s Al Keating gives Monocle a food-and-drink tour of his Ponsonby neighbourhood.

  • Issue #32
  • 7 min read
A flat white coffee with latte art held by a barista in a checkered shirt.
Design

25 retail stars

Monocle presents a list of our favourite shops, the most attentive services, the best store designs and the most innovative concepts in the retail sector.

  • Issue #32
  • 30 min read
25 retail stars
Culture

Art market

Christie’s is posting one of its biggest auctioneers, François Curiel, to head up its Asian HQ in Hong Kong. He will lead the house's expansion in one of the most promising post-recession art markets.

  • Issue #32
  • 2 min read
Art market
Culture

Little prints

From a shoestring start, Benjamin Sommerhalder grew his own magazine into Nieves, a small publishing house with a gallery and shop space, kick-starting a modern publishing boom in Zürich.

  • Issue #31
  • 6 min read
Nieves logo
Travel and restaurants

Monocle travel guide

New Zealand’s national carrier has unveiled an innovation to expand horizontal leisure travel. We also explore a new Hong Kong hub, a cosy Cape Town bistro, and inspired accommodation in Melbourne and Berlin.

  • Issue #31
  • 10 min read
Development-stage brainstorming
Transport

Dream a little dream

In the second of our series on niche airlines, we take a trip on one of two planes – one red, one blue – run by the tiny, but ambitious, Fuji Dream Airlines.

  • Issue #31
  • 3 min read
Fuji Dream Airlines
Design

Fashion

Norwegian outerwear firm Norrøna opens its first retail outlet in Oslo and Kitsune pops up in Tokyo.

  • Issue #30
  • 6 min read
Fashion
Culture

Culture

Monocle’s culture roundup, with reviews of Hans Fallada's 'Alone in Berlin' and Umberto Eco's 'The Infinity of Lists', plus new music from Hot Chip and an essay on slow media.

  • Issue #30
  • 7 min read
Culture

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