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13 results for St Gallen

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Stitch in time

26 November 2020

We size up the family-run Swiss fabric producer putting a new spin on age-old traditions.

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Monocle on Sunday - Here’s your Sunday read

2 February 2020

Georgina Godwin hosts a lively hour of clever discussion live at The Monocle Shop and Café in Zürich. Guests include Guy Spier, author of ‘The Education of a Value Investor’, architect David Marquardt and Marcus Schögel,…

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The Entrepreneurs - Institut auf dem Rosenberg and Loge Camps

9 September 2020

Bernhard Gademann, headmaster and director of Institut auf dem Rosenberg – an international boarding school in St Gallen, Switzerland – discusses entrepreneurial spirit in the education space. Plus: we meet Johannes Ariens…

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House doctor

17 January 2009

Set among the embassies and doctors’ surgeries in Marylebone, London, this petite penthouse pulled in Swiss carpenters along with British and Danish storage solutions to deal with a mass of media and an upside-down layout…

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All the fun of the fair

14 December 2017

Olma, Switzerland’s annual agriculture and nutrition tradeshow, has been going strong for 75 years. It’s how all nations should connect with their agrarian roots – and bet on a pig race or two.

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Little by little

10 September 2020

You need to be at the heart of a metropolis to sniff out an opportunity, right? Wrong. What these compact cities lack in size they make up for in entrepreneurial flair. We meet the folk whose big ideas have taken root in…

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Design/Architecture

17 June 2010

Floating homes on a man-made lake, a beautiful bamboo recyclable inflight food tray, and fine Finnish furniture.

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Protected status

15 August 2019

If you’re in charge of policing one of the safest cities in the world, pressure and pride go hand in hand.

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Silicon Alps

26 November 2020

Switzerland had a reputation for dreaming up ingenious tech ideas but being terrible at exploiting them. Now a clever network is selling Swiss breakthroughs to investors.

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Banking on it

24 March 2022

As Pictet opens its new Zürich office, we meet the team behind the historic building’s overhaul.

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In good taste

26 November 2020

Regional produce, a passion for perfection and a rejection of the latest fads shows how a country can have an enviable culinary culture. We take a tour of the quietly pioneering Swiss food landscape.

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Design destination

23 September 2021

In the first of a new series of journeys, we hit the road and head to the village of Noormarkku, western Finland, in search of superlative Finnish design.

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Style directory

15 September 2022

Autumn is all about more – more layers, more options, more fun. So embrace the impending elemental challenges with a sense of excitement, knowing that the right clothes will see you conquer them with ease. We bring you a…