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Inventory no.24
Things we've got our eye on this month: Pijama sleeves for sleeping laptops, nice white footwear from Sweden and Mallocran salty treats.
Ebneter & Biel
For almost a century, a family-run business in St Moritz has embroidered napkins, tablecloths and bed linen. A personalised item can take up to a year, carefully stitched by a septegenarian seamstress.
Clean conscience
Everything you need to keep clothes and bedlinen fresh, crisply ironed and looking new.
Inventory no.23
Things that we cover this month: a wooden scooter for pootling about, Minimalux desk sets that are brass acts, new vintage Repsol guides and pilot inks for every season.
Royal privilege
Escape Bairro Alto for Príncipe Real, a neighbourhood where shops on Rua Dom Pedro V sell specialist Portuguese products. A park hosts a weekly farmers’ market, and new businesses are always arriving.
10 season’s best
From Paris Fashion Week to Pitti Immagine Uomo Monocle’s fashion team bring you their favourite made-to-last looks for this spring.
Business
Why money grows on trees, New Zealand's food moves, Africa's largest wind farm and India's carrier bag ban.
Fashion
Britain's Nörsea, Chicago's hat man, Brittany's Guy Cotten, Montréal's Naked and Famous Denim plus Jeremy Hackett heads to Japan.
How convenient
Chez Jean is a café, sassy superette and international newsstand rolled into one.
Speed merchant
Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing and the richest man in Japan, is expanding his Uniqlo empire. Following record sales, he is taking his low-cost chain to Paris and Singapore.
