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Japan Collection
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The Monocle Book of Gentle Living
Monocle magazine March 2021
Konfekt - Issue 1
The Forecast 2021
The Monocle Book of Japan
Recycled cashmere beanie
Contour wool jacket
Fine corduroy work jacket
Shorthauler bag
Equinox Light U Carry-on suitcase 34 L
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Zip tote with pouch
SuperConnect radio - Silver
Candle One: Hinoki
Oak key tray
Yoshino Hinoki Diffuser
Drehgriffel pen
Weekly diary 2021
Pencil case
Key organiser with USB and multitool
Scent One: Hinoki
Scent Four: Yoyogi
Calavria roll-on fragrance
Travel-sized toiletry set
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Comme des Garçons
Darumas
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A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by a Monocle editor. The show features informed reporting, prescient business analysis and invaluable industry reports covering everything from technology to aviation and retail to media.
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Investing in private markets
The Bulletin with UBS 15 min listen
Afonso Cruz
Meet the Writers 30 min listen
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The US takes over the presidency at the UN Security Council; former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to jail for corruption; and we look at the political crisis in Armenia. Plus: Bookshop.org, a platform set up in the UK last November during the pandemic, has generated £1m to help independent bookshops.
60 min listen
Bookshop.org only launched last year but has already raised millions for independent booksellers across the UK and the US. Nicole Vanderbilt, the UK director, tells us why.
The Globalist 7 min listen
Award-winning director Bryan Fogel tells us about his new documentary on the life and death of Jamal Khashoggi.
The Briefing 8 min listen
Edinburgh City Council’s Lesley Macinnes tells us about plans to make parts of Scotland’s capital car free.
The Globalist 5 min listen
The UK’s former prime minister Tony Blair tells Monocle how vaccine certificates can help us travel again.
The Briefing 10 min listen
The Urbanist 6 min listen
The Entrepreneurs 12 min listen
Monocle on Design 7 min listen
Meet the Writers 15 min listen
Monocle on Culture 10 min listen
The Foreign Desk 6 min listen
The Menu 9 min listen
The Urbanist 4 min listen
We stop by Jasper Park Lodge, an historic hotel in the Canadian Rockies that’s hosted plenty of famous faces.
Afonso Cruz has written more than 30 books, plays, young-adult novellas, essays and novels, including ‘Kokoschka’s Doll’, which won the EU Prize for Literature. His subsequent books have also found success: ‘Jesus Christ Drank Beer’ was Time Out Lisbon’s best Portuguese novel of the year; ‘Where do Umbrellas End Up’ won the 2014 Portuguese Society for Authors award. Cruz is also a columnist, illustrator, animated-film director and member of the band The Soaked Lamb.
Meet the Writers 274 30 min listen
We hear about a new documentary exploring the life of legendary Brazilian footballer Pelé. Plus: singer-songwriter Arlo Parks discusses the power of sound, and UK chef Harriet Mansell shares a favourite recipe.
The Curator 489 1 hour listen
We look at the valuable lessons that the hospitality industry has learned from the past 12 months. Plus: US chef Andrew D’Ambrosi’s new culinary concept in one of the most beautiful corners of the UK.
The Menu 463 30 min listen
Vivien and Howard Wong co-founded mochi ice-cream brand Little Moons in 2010 after leaving careers in finance. The brother-and-sister team grew up watching their parents run a family bakery, and loved to eat the traditional Japanese mochis. They began by selling directly to London restaurants and are now stocked by Whole Foods, Selfridges and Amazon.
Welcome to Konfekt Korner, a new podcast brought to you by the ‘Konfekt’ magazine team, hosted between London and Zürich. In this first episode, Sophie Grove, Gillian Dobias and Marcela Palek are joined by fashion designers Paula Gerbase and Kazu Huggler; Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas tells us why you should consider scent when throwing a dinner party; and we head to Austria to cook up some new takes on the classic Viennese cake. Plus: we meet some of the people behind the first issue of ‘Konfekt’, including Egypt-based photographer Roger Anis, and the writer Lou Stoppard who muses on the sanctuary of the bathroom.
Konfekt Korner 1 53 min listen
Bonnie Kemske is an artist, writer and former editor of ‘Ceramic Review’. Born in Okinawa but raised in the US, she studied the Zen Buddhist artform of Chanoyu in Japan before undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art, becoming a ceramicist and researcher. She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her latest book, ‘Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend’, which explores the unique tradition of repairing pottery with a visible, often gold-leaf-covered join.
As she releases her debut album, ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’ the London-based singer, songwriter and poet Arlo Parks reflects on how she defines her sound. She tells us about the music and poetry she was brought up on, why certain instruments speak to her and the effect that the spoken word has on her music.
The Power of Sound 10 10 min listen
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