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33 results for Cologne

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Big drawer

23 February 2017

IMM Cologne is where the major furniture trade deals are clinched. We sit down – on elegant chairs – with some of its most innovative attendees.

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Ehrenfeld

17 May 2012

Once a workers’ district, the Ehrenfeld neighbourhood in Köln is luring a multi-cultural mix of families and creatives with its competitive housing prices and well- preserved architecture.

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The Late Edition - Wednesday 6 January

6 January 2016

Xenia Wickett and Ivor Gaber discuss the day’s top news, from gun control in the US and North Korea’s sabre-rattling to fallout over the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne and Iran-Saudi relations.

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Monocle on Design - A fresh approach

26 January 2016

We take stock of the designers, architects and fashion folk who are pioneering a fresh approach to their respective trades. At Milan Men’s Fashion Week Caruso, Trussardi and Rossignol all venture down different paths while…

Radio

The Entrepreneurs - Crowdfunded future

9 August 2017

Antonio Weiss and Matt Brown are the founders of Thomas Clipper, a UK lifestyle brand that crowdfunds design-led products, such as sturdy double-edged razors and Italian-leather wash bags. The two have recently launched a…

Radio

The Foreign Desk - Germany and the refugees

30 January 2016

In her end-of-year message German chancellor Angela Merkel said “thank you” to those who had welcomed the large numbers of refugees to the country over the previous months. However, that same evening a string of sexual…

Monocle Minute

Fair’s fair

30 December 2016

With 2017 around the corner, the design world is busy prepping for the year ahead. The new year kicks off with international furniture fair IMM Cologne (16 to 22 January) at the Koelnmesse, starring US designer Todd Bracher…

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Part of the furniture

18 January 2016

The year’s first interior-design show begins today: the week-long IMM Cologne is set in the expansive Koelnmesse exhibition centre on the banks of the Rhine. Only Milan’s Salone del Mobile can attempt to compete with Ger…

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Sitting comfortably

19 January 2016

This year’s IMM Cologne, the agenda-setting interiors fair, has only just begun but it’s already clear that furniture design never stands still. Each year the fair awards the celebrated A&W Designer of the Year prize, which…

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Scents of place

12 November 2014

Distilling the influences of its unique East-meets-West location has been a blessing for Turkish perfumer Atelier Rebul, whose blend of old-world glamour and forward-thinking management is proving an alluring combination…

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Made in Milan

15 April 2016

With the weekend almost upon us many visitors to this year’s Salone del Mobile design fair (on until Sunday) have finally had a chance to take stock of what’s on show and muse on the fair as a whole – and there’s an ebul…

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Art market

18 March 2015

This month's movers and makers.

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Domestic bliss

19 January 2012

Within four years of its launch, this privately owned Turkish airline has one of the most comprehensive domestic services in Europe.

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Double vision

19 November 2009

While trends come and go in the art world, gallery owners Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers have been nurturing artists for 26 years. Their old fashioned approach has paid off and they are the ones to watch in 2010.

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Look back in wonder

17 September 2012

The white-topped marquees that dot Regent’s park during the Frieze Art Fair have become a fixture of autumnal London. The fair has built an unrivaled reputation for attracting the world’s most exciting mix of industry…

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Best in class: Men’s Biz

20 April 2017

The dapper australian barbershop bringing class back to men’s grooming.