Design
The Monocle Design Awards 2025: All 50 winners
From handsome Nordic furniture to sleek kitchen appliances, the following 50 designs, people and places are the recipients of Monocle’s annual Design Awards.
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Spring into action
Whether it’s a big trip, a key work project or a meaningful pursuit, this is the season to get things moving. Here’s how to dress the part in style.
Little wonder
Tatsuya Tanaka’s small-scale artworks are the result of dreaming big. We visit the studio where his mini masterpieces come to life.
You’ve got male
From a welcoming new Paris boutique founded by two upstart designers from Dijon to Italian jackets that marry natural materials with couture techniques, we look at the trajectory of menswear in 2024.
Fine prints
Publisher Lars Müller has long championed the power of print. Now a new online project is offering up his archive to collectors.
Seoul sur Seine
A Korean ‘hanok’ in the French countryside is a keeper of an artistic legacy and a link between continents.
Making a scene
Paulistano artists, galleries and art fairs have emerged from the ruinous Bolsonaro years with a new urgency to make their mark.
Inch by inch
Fashion is dominated by a few big cities but Hul le Kes’s decision to build its brand in Arnhem has put the Dutch city on the map.
Light and shade
The lauded director on breaking into South Korea’s male-dominated film industry – and her next project.
