Product Archive
Cotton Tenugui
A traditional Japanese textile, the tenugui has been updated in this stylish take by Monocle. Designed in-house and made in Japan, this lightweight piece is available only to our customers, featuring an exclusive pattern and made from woven cotton.
The Monocle Companion: 4
What can we learn from ancient civilisations about planning and development? How does Tokyo keep its streets so tidy? And what does the perfect news kiosk look like? Find the answers to all of these questions and more in Fifty Ideas for Building Better Cities, the fourth instalment in Monocle’s Companion series. This paperback powerhouse is packed with fresh ideas, intrigue and insights about how to make your own patch more lively and liveable. Let’s make cities better.
The Monocle Companion: 3
The Monocle Companion: Fifty Ideas for a Better World is our summery new paperback that’s brimming with cheery, thoughtful and canny ideas for leaving things better than we found them. The latest outing of our popular paperback format is ideal for enjoying on a sunlounger or popping into a tote to read on the go. It is packed with entertaining reads, insights and thoughts that might just nudge the world in a better direction. Here is just some of what you'll find under the covers:
– Why words matter, how to use them more clearly and what taking pictures can teach us all.
– Travelling better, how not to be an expat and the importance of friendship in a lonely world.
– The difficulty of doing nothing at all – and getting around it.
– What would happen if children ran our cities and how urban centres might survive the loss of workers.
– Why we need to trash the recycling symbol, go easy on greenwashers (really) and exercise our imagination.
– War and peas: food diplomacy and why it matters, and rethinking how we eat to save the planet.
– How to avoid losing sleep over technology and be in the moment with others.
– The importance of planting seeds and the lessons that gardens can teach us.
– A common-sense manifesto for businesses and entrepreneurship.
– How to rethink society for the better. First question: do we need the nation-state?
For more big thoughts from authors, thinkers and architects, plus a dose of sun, humour and wit, buy your copy today.
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.
Loopwheel crewneck
Designed in house by the Monocle team, this pure cotton crewneck uses heavy terry fabric knitted on loopwheel machines in Japan’s Wakayama prefecture. Made in Tokyo, the sweatshirt features ribbed cuffs and neck trim. Available in navy or yellow.
Hand and body wash
Crafted by perfumer Daphné Bugey, this hand and body wash is the result of an exclusive collaboration between Portuguese beauty house Claus Porto and Monocle. It is available only to our customers, with packaging designed by our in-house art team. Unwrap for notes of bergamot, lemon and the rich tang of lime with green notes of galbanum and undertones of petitgrain. With a base of white musk, the fragrance has a refreshing essence of cypress and lavender.
The first fragrance house on the Iberian peninsula and one of the world’s oldest beauty houses, Claus Porto is renowned for its soaps, perfumes and eau de colognes. Every product is made in Portugal and the range features items hand-wrapped in illustrated, art deco-inspired paper sealed with wax.
‘The Stylemate’ magazine: Issue 4
The latest issue of The Stylemate magazine from Lifestylehotels explores the shifting landscape of modern identity. Moving beyond outdated ideals of strength and stoicism, it examines how masculinity is being reshaped through emotion, individuality and self-expression. From music and personal stories to essays and sensory experiences, it traces a more nuanced perspective – one that embraces vulnerability as much as confidence. This edition reflects on what it means to define oneself today, revealing that identity is no longer fixed but continuously reimagined and expressed by living on one’s own terms.
‘The Stylemate’ magazine: Issue 1
Find inspiration from around the world in this issue of The Stylemate, which looks into the principles of Western and Eastern philosophy and explores how these ideas serve as a bond within communities. Read an exclusive interview with Margherita Belcredi from the Austrian office for contemporary art, Phileas, and a deep dive into the Clayground retreat in Tuscany and the Expo’s effects on Japanese culture.
Pull-over crew
Monocle has put down roots in la République, opening a Paris office and releasing a new France handbook. Now, our shop’s customers can also buy a pullover crew from iconic Breton brand Le Minor. Made on the blustery Brittany coast near the town of Lorient, this 100 per cent virgin-wool sweater is a reliable companion when facing down the wind and rain. Wearers will join French navy officers in donning the French brand’s pieces for the winter – what could be a better endorsement?
Hungary Today
Created in partnership with Visit Hungary, Hungary Today offers a take on the country that moves beyond postcard imagery. Our recommendations highlight great places to sleep, eat and experience each destination in a way that acknowledges their identities and invites further exploration. This is not a checklist but an invitation to tune into Hungary’s many layers.
