Cécile Frot-Coutaz heads up the Fremantle Media Group, a content provider with a huge global reach thanks to its TV brands including ‘The X Factor’ and ‘American Idol’. She discusses evolving viewing habits and how she…
Lockdown has proved to be the ultimate test of what we want from our living spaces. Interior designer Ilse Crawford tells us how simplicity, cleanliness and communal thinking should inform how housing is developed from now…
A tangle of roads and lanes, a muddle of rising and falling neighbourhoods, London can be a tough beast to tame, even for those who call it home. But this ever-changing and regenerating capital can also charm you with its…
As the ink-spattered architect of Gonzo journalism and Hunter S Thompson’s co-conspirator, Steadman’s inimitable illustration style is known the world over. Here he talks bomb-shelter dining, Donald Trump and the unceasing…
Wine from England? Surely not, you might think. But vineyards are proliferating in the country’s sunny south and wine-makers are right at home in the rolling hills.
Ercol has refined the craft of making fine timber furniture in the UK, elevating its design and quality. As the family firm named after founder Lucian Ercolani marks its centenary, we visit its factory in the Chiltern Hills…
There are few incentives to wear our finery while working from home. Designer Paula Gerbase says that we should emerge from the lockdown with renewed vigour to dress up and buy smart.
Considered bland and suburban by most, the Home Counties boast a bubbling undercurrent of creativity.
UK band Saint Etienne is now singing their praises
Consigned to the history books as a non-viable form of transport and now more commonly seen used by film baddies, the airship is finally being reinvented for the eco generation. British firm Hybrid Air Vehicles is creating…
Part of the British Army for nearly 200 years, Nepalese Gurkhas are renowned for their skill and bravery. For Monocle, these Gurkhas swapped their distinctive uniforms for bold, smart civvies.
