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Bella interiors
With attendees from 160 countries, Milan furniture fair Salone del Mobile is an unrivalled global cornerstone for the design industry. Monocle picks out the highlights from the show.
Bare essentials
Bikini Berlin, a newly redesigned complex, mixes retail, culture and creative thinking. Once a fading Cold War relic, intelligent ideas from its new tenants are helping to redefine the shopping-mall model.
Vaulting ambition
Layers of history have been peeled back to turn a bank into a haven in the heart of the city.
Inventory No. 74
Bikes built from typefaces, native vermouth and monthly socks: our latest edit of designers and makers sweating the details, from Portland workshops to Galician vineyards.
Brimful of tradition
Through boom, bust and flood Grevi has kept its craft alive to remain at the head of the pack.
Art of the geek gods
The tech industry was an art desert until Rick Friedman brought a major art fair to Silicon Valley. But would the cash-rich, time-poor computer kids respond to works brought to their door?
Art market
A new art venture in Taipei, a book on Japan's museums and a visit to Masterpiece London.
Culture
The films, books and bands keeping us entertained this month — and an introduction to a football pundit.
Now You See It
From a simple concept - the roll-out and upkeep of municipal street furniture in exchange for control of the advertising - JCDecaux elevates the unnoticed essentials of urban life. Monocle discovers how it helps…
Prix Pictet – Consumption
Since 2008, Prix Pictet has championed and rewarded photojournalists and photographic artists who shed light on environmental issues. Monocle films takes a look at this year's exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum in…
