Product Archive

Seersucker shorts

Designed in-house by Monocle’s team, these Portuguese-made shorts are available in blue stripes or navy. Made with lightweight seersucker cotton fabric, the shorts feature two back and two front pockets, as well as button fastening and a draw cord.

Akabeko

Exclusively made for Monocle by Japanese artisanal brand Nozawa-Mingei, these Akabeko cow toys hail from Aizu, Fukushima. Traditionally they are painted in red but these handmade iterations have light pink, dark brown and off-white colourways. Created as good-luck charms, gifts or display items, the head will bob up and down if pressed.

It all began when Minako Hayakawa, CEO of Japanese artisanal brand Nozawa-Mingei, popped into our Tokyo shop. What started as a conversation turned into a collaboration and today Monocle is proud to be partnering with Nozawa-Mingei for an exclusive range of Akabeko cow toys. Based in Aizu, Fukushima, Nozawa-Mingei is a proud purveyor of Japanese craft traditions. 

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.

Heavy piqué polo shirt

Designed in-house by Monocle’s team, this heavy terry piqué polo shirt is available in navy or olive green. Made of pure cotton in Portugal, it is complemented by mother-of-pearl buttons, a chest pocket and a boxy fit. The perfect companion for tennis club lunches and strolls through town.

Nylon packable mac

Designed in-house by Monocle’s team and made in Portugal, this packable mac is available in navy or khaki. It is made from water repellent, PFAS-free nylon fabric, sourced from Italy’s Limonta mill, which is known for its high-quality technical fabrics. Featuring a back vent, zipped pockets under pocket flaps and a packable pocket in the collar. Packs down easily for travel. Ready for whatever the weather brings.

Slub-yarn T-shirt

Designed in house by the Monocle team, this T-shirt uses fabric knitted on old loopwheel machines in Japan’s Wakayama prefecture. Made in Tokyo using a slub cotton yarn, each shirt has a uniquely soft texture and is available in yellow, navy or white.

Slub-yarn T-shirt

Designed in house by the Monocle team, this T-shirt uses fabric knitted on old loopwheel machines in Japan’s Wakayama prefecture. Made in Tokyo using a slub cotton yarn, each shirt has a uniquely soft texture and is available in white, navy or yellow.

Slub-yarn T-shirt

Designed in house by the Monocle team, this T-shirt uses fabric knitted on old loopwheel machines in Japan’s Wakayama prefecture. Made in Tokyo using a slub cotton yarn, each shirt has a uniquely soft texture and is available in navy, yellow or white.