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Room to improve
As many predict a tough year ahead, we look at the managers, designers and concepts transforming the hotel sector and rethinking the whole concept of hospitality for today’s informed guests.
Cabin Fever
Unlike the usual identikit winter lodge, this remastered getaway in the French Alps is inventive – but its unique sense of style doesn’t detract from its homely charm.
Architecture/Design
Sombre, elegant and transparent: this is everything a courthouse should be. The winning design is by 3XN, Lemming & Eriksson Engineers and Schønherr Landskab, for an extension to Copenhagen's existing neo-classical courthouse.
Inn focus
The art of inn-keeping requires a natural host, designer and logistician. It takes years to hone the craft of creating an environment where people will want to return again and again.
Keep on trucking
In Paris's 7th arrondissement, Jean-Luc Poujauran abandoned his celebrated bakery to pursue a singular obsession: supplying 200 restaurants with sourdough born from his father's ancient starter.
Mover and shaker
With a Swiss R&D team and an Italian manufacturer, Mover produces high-quality technical ski garments. Monocle pays a visit to its HQ to see how it's done.
Open and shut case
Founded by a diver, Pelican Products now makes indestructible cases for everyone from the military to the iPhone user. It has expanded into ingenious lighting systems and is making a healthy profit.
Inventory No. 30
Nutty about design? From teak toys to matchboxes to a help manual for budding designers, we have a selection of graphically and artistically superior products to tempt your fancy.
Raining supreme
For our series investigating the secrets of success, Monocle visits Austrian company Doppler, Europe’s biggest manufacturer of quality umbrellas. Its top product has been handcrafted in the same way since the 1940s.
Drawin them in
Emilio Giannelli’s satirical cartoons on the front page of ‘Corriere della Sera’ unite Italy in laughter. He has become untouchable by the nation’s highly litigious politicians, including Silvio Berlusconi.
