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318 results for California

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The Road Ahead - California

16 May 2019

We travel north on the Shoreline Highway from San Francisco to Marin County to meet a wealth of Californian characters, from counterculture heroes to oyster farmers.

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Monocle on Design - ‘California Captured’

25 September 2018

We make for the sun-soaked hills of southern California to examine the post-war modernist-architecture boom (and mine a few lessons for today). Plus: Josh Fehnert talks to Katie Treggiden about London Design Festival.

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Turkey's California

24 August 2017

We travel to the Aegean Coast in Turkey, where tourism may be falling but its beach clubs are buoyed by a homegrown crowd escaping city life and political upheaval.

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California on a roll

15 August 2009

What would the US be without the hamburger? Like a country without a decent urban commuter bike. And that’s been the case, until Specialized set up a workshop in California to produce new designs that are tarmac-lickin’…

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California dreamin'

19 April 2018

The 1960s was a golden era for West Coast architecture. One of the overlooked heroes of the period was Ed Killingsworth, best known for his work with hotels in later life but something of a maverick of modest mid-century…

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Sunny outlook

15 April 2010

The Mojave desert receives more sunlight than anywhere else in the US, so plans for it to become a solar-power ‘Saudi Arabia’ seem spot on. But while many recession-hit locals are in full support, others are casting a…

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Monocle on Design - California: designing freedom

13 June 2017

London’s Design Museum looks at the Golden State’s influence, we speak to the co-chief executive of one of the biggest architecture and design firms in the US and we meet one of the people responsible for some of the most…

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Catching the wave

21 November 2013

First published in 1992, ‘The Surfer’s Journal’ is more book than magazine. It’s a handsome, lovingly produced, defiantly old-school title that’s holding out against the incoming tide of digital culture.

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Kenzo Estate

30 November 2010

The Kenzo Estate in Napa Valley, California, is owned by Kenzo Tsujimoto, founder of video games giant Capcom. Monocle visits to see how the company is aiming to break into the global wine market.

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Going east

17 May 2019

LA’s Eastside is proving fertile ground for designers who are refining Californian style.

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Sunday Brunch - Sunday Brunch 2: California Designing

20 August 2017

We head to the Design Museum to learn about its new exhibition California: Designing Freedom, explore Leonard Cohen’s life with Kieron Matthew Banerji and sample ice-cream sundaes in north London. All that before we go…

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Bordering the sublime

10 May 2018

The US-Mexico border may be politically contentious but food culture and entrepreneurship have found a way to flourish here, with some tasty results.

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Plenty to write home about

9 May 2019

Eight globetrotting correspondents muse on developments in both the journey and the destination, be it a Californian cruise, a North Atlantic catch or a controversy at 35,000ft.

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The Menu - Food Neighbourhoods 91: Long Beach, California

3 July 2018

Monocle 24’s Sam Impey and food writer Brian Addison tour Long Beach, home to one of the most diverse food scenes in the US.

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Art market briefing

19 May 2015

We meet Rodman Primack, the design director of Miami/Basel, and tour the world's auction houses.

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Modern lovers

21 January 2015

Architectural acolytes seeking a temple to modernism usually head for Scandinavia but they may now want to go west, too. In the California desert, an old bank has been reborn as an oasis of mid-century style and host to a…

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