Retail
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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.
Business
The two-man team making umbrellas the old-fashioned way, the solar-powered plane that can fly forever and Canada's new anti-spam legislation.
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.
Shed start
Yangon is abuzz with renewal as entrepreneurs make their mark. Monocle visits the TS1 pop-up, which uses culture and commerce to forge a brand and make a difference in the city.
Inventory No. 73
Our top picks this month include a set of beer glasses designed to hold the perfect pint, some notable stationery, a sweet British honey range, plus the best of organic cosmetics.
It’s all in the timing
Switzerland’s annual watch fair, Baselworld, posed interesting questions this year. How has China’s economy affected the industry? Are oversized watches still in? And when will ‘smartwatches’ enter the luxury market?
Homeware Top 25
For Monocle’s Homeware Top 25 we present our round-up of the simply designed and yet endlessly useful things – from coat hooks to ceramics and cooking utensils to kettles – that make a home…
Retail special: stationery shops
A new generation of stationery entrepreneurs is preserving and reviving the art of writing. Monocle Films travels to Prague, Vancouver and London to visit three shops that share a love of paper.
Blooms or Bust
Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market might be a must-see for tourists but the Japanese capital’s flower market is also that rare thing – a place of beauty and big business.
