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Post modern

8 January 2010

Like other state-owned mail services, Swiss Post is under pressure from private-sector competition and the internet, but it is not running scared. The firm is transforming itself into a media and technology brand.

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Modern niches

19 November 2019

Whether it’s door-to-door delivery services, cutesy telegrams or ear salons, Japan is home to a host of unique businesses.

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Modern love

19 October 2017

Ken Stradling’s home is a tribute to the pared-back modernist aesthetic he championed in postwar homes.

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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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Modern times

15 August 2013

A slice of US-style modernism deep in the heart of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico’s El Monte provokes an almost messianic zeal among its adherents. To them, El Monte is not simply a home but an experiment in how to live.

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The Monocle Weekly - The modern dance

19 July 2015

Robert Bound and Tom Edwards meet Sven Hansen-Løve, one of the minds behind a new film about the French dance-music scene, ‘Eden’. They also chat economics with a Nobel Prize-winner Alvin Roth and discuss Ballet Folklórico…

Monocle Minute

Modern conservation

30 June 2016

Modernism is the darling of the architecture world but non-profit organisation Docomomo US wants to ensure that the movement’s historic concrete creations continue to be on the public radar. The company created the Moder…

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Modern history

19 March 2020

Facing demolition, the Dai-ichi Bank building had seen better days. But at the 11th hour, and with a nod to its illustrious past, the site has been rejuvenated as K5 hotel.

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Master of modern

15 April 2015

Adolf Loos was a key figure in architecture but his legacy has had to endure turbulent times in his Czech homeland. Now that restorations of his most dazzling interiors are underway, his designs are set to be revealed in…

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Modern marvel

23 May 2024

Green shoots in California’s storied oasis make this the ideal moment to visit.

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Monocle on Design - ‘Danish Modern’

27 June 2024

Design Museum Denmark’s new permanent exhibition explores the evolution of furniture design in the Nordic nation in the past century. Monocle’s Michael Booth reports from Copenhagen.

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Monocle on Design - Modernism Week

22 February 2022

We take a trip to Palm Springs for Modernism Week and discuss how comfort shaped mid-century furniture. Plus: modern architecture and comedy with Tim Ross.

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Christchurch School: sunny modernism

28 April 2021

We explore a New Zealand take on mid-century modern architecture that fused British brutalism with a Scandinavian aesthetic. The simple construction methods of the Christchurch School’s creative homes have endured changing…

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Cold war modern

16 February 2023

With its vast lobbies and unfussy functionality, the concrete-and-glass Deutsche Oper building was considered an audacious statement of democratic ideals when it first opened in 1961 on the western side of the Berlin Wall…

Monocle Minute

Modern men

30 April 2016

North America has Alfred H Barr Jr and Philip Johnson – Moma's founding director and curator of architecture respectively – to thank for introducing Bauhaus to the continent. During the early 1930s the museum hosted a…

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Modern classics

23 September 2021

The creative director of America’s oldest clothing brand on the preppy bounceback.