Design
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A toast to good design
The founder of innovative appliance company Balmuda shares his love of quick naps and a little tipple.
Best in class: Fratelli Bonvini
The vintage milanese stationer keeping the written word alive.
Fun of the fair
New York’s art-world innovator Independent is taking its idiosyncratic style to Brussels. We ask some key figures what makes it special.
Animal architecture
Finding a compromise between an animal’s wellbeing, a farm’s efficiency and local architecture traditions is a fine art and often has to be done with limited resources. For Monocle’s 10-year anniversary issue we pulled…
Travel
Check in to the world of impeccable design, sharp service, dazzling views and any excuse for cocktails.
How Monika and Ole Paustian made Børge Mogensen’s ‘laboratory’ a home again
Living in the former home of a celebrated architect is a privilege but also a responsibility. The occupants of Børge Mogensen’s handsome house on the fringes of Copenhagen have got the balance right.
Beauty and the beef
How do you balance the welfare of livestock with an architectural aesthetic that befits bucolic surroundings? We pulled on our wellies to find out.
Architecture
A fix for an urban-planning disaster in Sydney and a Barcelona architecture firm on the up.
