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Italy’s new London embassy, Casa Italia, is a shining example of soft-power promotion
The newly opened Italian embassy in London makes good use of the country’s cultural prowess as a tool of diplomacy. We take a tour with its ambassador Inigo Lambertini.
The London art director collecting Earth’s rarest sculptures: Meteorites
Jethro Sverdloff, co-director of London’s Art Ancient, believes cosmic material is the next frontier in the art collectors’ market.
‘There is no formula. It’s heart and soul.’ Restaurateur Jeremy King breathes new life into Simpson’s in the Strand
After five decades shaping London’s most iconic dining rooms, Jeremy King and his longtime collaborator Shayne Brady tell Monocle how they’re rethinking restaurant interiors and embracing evolving tastes.
Charlie Smith: The in-demand CMO creating something from Nothing
Charlie Smith helped to transform Loewe from a sleepy leather brand into an in-demand label. Now, in his new role at a UK start-up, he wants to make tech brands cool again.
Appetite for construction: The pioneering engineer, Hanif Kara
For Hanif Kara, technology is a tool for uniting architecture and construction – and building a better world.
Behind a Mayfair shopfront, Automat is reviving the speakeasy
Discreet, dark and a little mysterious, this new London diner has all of the essential ingredients.
Danish textile brand Tekla’s new London store boasts beautiful Scandi-British fusion
Danish brand Tekla’s latest outpost offers elevated yet functional fabrics and homeware pieces.
Rose Wylie, 91 and still painting, brings her glorious irreverence to Royal Academy London
Meet Rose Wylie, the nonagenarian artist producing exuberant, high-selling masterpieces from her famously messy Kent studio.
Upstairs at Ronnie’s keeps Soho nights swinging with jazz and reinvention
Jazz club Ronnie Scott’s new space is proof that, for live venues to thrive, they need to change with the times.
Nine fantastic ways to spend your money this week
The new screening rooms, swimming pools and shopping locations that Monocle's fashion, culture and design editors have bookmarked for the week ahead
