Tom Morris
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
