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Salone Selectives
With record numbers attending Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile, its reputation as the world's most important design fair was confirmed. Monocle reports on the key players, products and up-and-coming trends.
Top of the flops
Havaianas flip-flops are Brazil's unofficial national shoe. Worn by almost everyone since 1962, the company sold 162 million pairs last year and is now opening its first office outside Brazil in New York.
Luxurious relaunch
Saxony, once under communist rule, is now a German manufacturing centre for luxury brands. But can its capital, Dresden, become as synonymous with high-end shopping as Paris and Milan?
Shelf slackers
Melbourne's Greville Street Bookstore trades practicality for provocation, stocking design tomes and countercultural classics. Owner Jurate Sasnaitis explains why useless, beautiful books—and $100 price tags—keep customers coming back.
Take your seats
The Milan Furniture Fair, or “Salone”, has become one of the world's biggest industrial design events. It brings together designers, architects, buyers and clients for five days of intense business and networking.
