The Weekend Opener
from Andrew Tuck
Abu Dhabi puts its faith in the power of architecture to bring people together
By the time we finished the final interview at our pop-up Monocle Radio booth at the Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Summit and recorded a special edition of The Urbanist (you can listen in here), it was still only…
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Managing overtourism doesn’t mean throwing the backpacker out with the bathwater
I don’t know how I persuaded them but they gave their permission. I was 16 years old when my parents agreed that, if I saved enough money, I could buy an Interrail card and…
How to have the perfect restaurant moment? Breeze in, wind down
Last Friday I headed to Palma. It was for a mission: to bring the partner and hound to London by car, ferry and train. They had been there for several weeks, enjoying a very…
Want to improve your quality of life? Live in a sunny city that allows its residents time to linger
1.The fading of April and easing into May has seen London basking in temperatures that a Brit associates with full-on summer. By Thursday the weather app confirmed that we had hit 27C – not…
Our first Chiefs conference in Jakarta went off with a bang. Here’s why you should visit too
I lost my virginity this week. Boy, was it fun – especially as I was surrounded by so many Monocle supporters, colleagues and incredibly talented business leaders. I’m not sure why it took me…
Why restaurant design has us all feeling like sitting ducks
Dear restaurant designer,I hope that you don’t mind me dropping you this note out of the blue but I wanted to have a word about the humble topic of seating. You see, you have…
Business meets pleasure at Salone del Mobile. But Milan is the real star of the show
You might have noticed that we talk about Salone del Mobile, Milan’s Design Week furniture fair, quite a lot. We make a dedicated Salone newspaper, we deliver coverage every day on Monocle Radio and we discuss its…
Restoring a beautiful object is a map to a distant, radiant past
There’s a vintage shop in Palma called Món S.XX that sells mid-century furniture, 1970s lighting, aged garden tables, globes and pictures. I drop in on my city walks just in case I might need…
When late nights lead into early mornings, good company makes all the difference
1It’s been a week. Last night the deal was one TV show and to bed. And we’re talking 21.00. It was either The White Lotus or Adolescence. We decided to keep the fun storyline of incest and…
Montorgueil is picture-perfect Paris – I couldn’t help but get drawn in
We had a party in Paris on Wednesday (indeed, there’s a separate party-people report in this very outing of The Monocle Weekend Edition). And it was fun. When I took the Eurostar to Paris…
There was something fishy about this year’s Mipim convention…
It has been a very soggy week in the south of France (I know, the hardships one has to endure). Usually attendees at Mipim, the world’s largest convention for the property market, can look…
