The idea of having furniture made for you might be daunting but understanding the process is a pleasure. You’ll treasure what you have more when you see
where and how it is created.
A clutch of fresh independent businesses has opened in the neighbourhood along Joo Chiat Road, bringing a refreshing burst of modernity to the old-school area.
When a husband-and-wife team decided to transform their apartment behind Madrid’s Paseo de Prado into a space in which they could live and work, little did they know that the project would provide so much comfort.
Visit Munich or Melbourne, Seattle or Singapore and you’ll come across ‘almost perfect’ places to live. However, at Monocle we’ve created the ideal mansion block, with nothing omitted in its design. Now, who’s going to…
As urbanists around the world devise new approaches to better everyday living, we highlight three projects in Japan, Sweden and Singapore taking a fresh perspective.
As president of Japanese company Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo, Tadashi Yanai is the richest man in Japan. After record sales in 2008, he is taking his low-cost chain to Paris and Singapore and hunting for…
We report on an urban farming project at Osaka train station, the first verticle farm in Singapore and the sad fate of Cambodia's colonial and "new Khmer" buildings.
Avant-garde dining in an Athens art gallery, designer apartments in the Bavarian mountains, whale-sighting off the unspoilt Tasmanian coast – explorations to savour in this month’s Monocle travel round-up.
In our global news round-up we find
a (very) short-haul trip where dogs
get VIP treatment, meet Singapore’s naturalist superheroes and make a case
for taxi drivers donning national dress.