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The Monocle Travel Guide, Mexico City

$20

Quesadillas sizzling on street corners outside cosy coffee shops; mariachi in sequined sombreros serenading late-night revellers; tower blocks casting long shadows over baroque churches and Aztec ruins studded with cacti. Mexico City simultaneously conforms to every stereotype and challenges every preconception with shameless self-assurance.

Lobo Marinho

Porto Side Table

$585

This oak-and-steel table comes flat-packed and can be assembled into a sturdy little number in minutes. Produced in a limited run of 60 by Porto-based industrial designer André Costa, it provides a lower shelf for books and magazines while the top can be removed and used as a handy tray for entertaining guests. Drinks on the veranda, anyone?

Delfonics

Pencil case

$20

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The Monocle Travel Guide, Hamburg

$20

If Berlin is Germany’s clubbing capital then Hamburg is the dinner party that’s as raucous as it is refined – and the guests are a varied bunch too.