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The Monocle Companion: 5
The exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcase the ingenuity and ongoing reinvention shaping the world’s built environment. It’s fitting, then, that the fifth instalment in Monocle’s Companion series uses this event as a springboard for 50 new essays, interviews and ideas from both 2025’s Biennale exhibitors and the wider Monocle community. Highlights include: lessons designers can take from artists; dispatches from a space architect; why all cities ought to be swimmable; and why lava is an underrated building material. There’s even a debut photo essay reflecting on how the Floating City has transformed through the lens of a Venetian-born photographer. The Monocle Companion’s Venice Architecture Biennale Special leaves no stone unturned.
Pick up a copy today for insightful reads and fresh perspectives from the world’s most prestigious architecture event. Let’s build better.
Konfekt – Summer 2025
Our travel-themed issue offers long-reads and lots of sun-drenched escapism to inspire and inform the season’s journeys and adventures. From a whizz across Lake Zürich in a svelte runabout to a dive into the azure Adriatic after an epic train journey, the latest edition of Konfekt is an ode to those fresh and free aquatic moments that only summer can offer. We’ll tour the Polish lake district, check into a sculptural modernist motel in the Camargue and spend an afternoon in a Danish holiday cabin. Discover crafted garments in Mexico City, a sartorial homage to the riviera in St Tropez and the season’s most winning ensembles captured in our fashion report on the rooftops of Cairo. Expect enveloping reads for endless summer days; pull up a chair at a Neapolitan yacht club for a roundtable on geopolitics and the high seas; and be submerged into essays on Odyssean journeys and the history of swimwear.
Knowing More
There’s a good chance that you have flown on a plane that Winkreative painted, read a newspaper that it redesigned or meandered through an urban development that it branded. Since 1998 the branding and creative agency – and sister company to Monocle – has been applying its investigative spirit, insightful thinking and eye for quality to projects that shape the world around us. Knowing More takes you inside some of Winkreative’s most recent works across hospitality, travel and commerce, from Swiss cruise ships to Hawaiian printmakers and South Korean beauty giants.
Knowing Wink
A new direction for a national airline. A fresh expression of a country’s culture. Knowing Wink is a celebration of 20 years of visionary design and thinking from Winkreative – a branding and creative agency with its eye on the world and Monocle’s sister company. Featuring inside looks at some of the agency’s boldest and biggest projects, as well as considered opinions on place, travel, culture and commerce, Knowing Wink is home to ideas, perspectives and works that have taken on a life of their own.
Merino pyjamas
Spun in Portugal from butter-soft, worsted merino wool, this pyjama set provides breathability and body temperature regulation. Practical details include a chest pocket on the shirt and front pockets to the shorts, while a drawcord ensures an adjustable fit.
Faro lamp
At Monocle, we take good lighting seriously. It should compliment a space, creating a naturally welcoming, warm atmosphere, which is exactly why we chose this Faro lamp. Designed by David Chipperfield for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg, it features a dimmable LED light and up to 20 hours of battery life, which means that it can move seamlessly from kitchen to terrace. Plus: The olive colour is exclusive to Monocle. Settle in for an elegantly lit evening of entertaining and dining.
Designer Magnus Wästberg founded his eponymous lighting brand in Helsingborg, Sweden, in 2008. The aim? To go back to a type of light that compliments space, creating a naturally welcoming, warm atmosphere. Drawing on years of experience from work with architectural practices such as David Chipperfield and Claesson Koivisto Rune, Wästberg’s luminous creations can now be found in offices, homes, hotels and museums all over the world.
California dial alarm clock
Looking to make your bedside table a phone-free space? Båge & Söner has created this limited-edition table alarm clock, a precision piece tailored for interior enthusiasts and watch lovers alike. Handmade in Stockholm, the clock is encased in light-gold PVD stainless steel with a tempered mineral face, and wrapped with textured calf leather.
Note the clock’s details, such as the engraved edition number on the backside foot and the California dial (a style dating to the 1930s combining half Roman and half Arabic numerals), which is inscribed with the collaborative branding of Monocle and Båge & Söner. Just the trick for anyone looking to clock-off and relax.
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July/August 2025 – Issue 185
Our special summer issue to carry you through July and August is here – complete with an all-new global urban liveability index. What are the best cities for nightlife, health, housing and safe streets? And what about the best all-rounder? Find these answers and more in our sunniest issue of the year. Plus: we browse the news kiosks that are holding their ground around the world, sit down with celebrated chef Enrique Olvera in his rural weekend residence and hitch a ride on the Mediterranean’s first all-electric ferry. Whether you’re watching out for the latest on Hermès’s timepieces or seeking quiet shade in Finnish mökki cottages, Monocle has you covered.
