Vanessa Bell
Family building
In 1943, two architects built a radical apartment block in Buenos Aires to redefine communal living. Decades later, the modernist marvel is still the glue that holds its inhabitants together.
Food
Blessed are the cheesemakers, brewers, bakers and restaurateurs making our meals a pleasure. Here’s our pick of the vital victuallers making Monocle’s February menu.
Haus rules
From an Alpine lodge with farm-fresh appeal to Argentine openings revamping a city’s retail scene, here are the movers, shakers and makers catching our eye across the world.
Moveable feast
Defying geography is a theme this month with Nordic style in Milan, a US coffee shop opening in Tokyo and gin from Berlin, creating a culinary cocktail that is truly cosmopolitan.
Made to measure
From a Taiwanese architect reinventing Asian retail design to a family-run wooden furniture maker in rural Germany, we select five design firms to watch (and employ) in 2015.
