The Weekend Opener
from Andrew Tuck
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…
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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…
Jakarta is calling all chiefs – here’s why you should answer
Shall we do some house news? Firstly, I’d like us to talk Jakarta (not a euphemism). On Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 April we are hosting The Chiefs, our engaging conference series that looks at…
Why it’s time we all had a personal curator
Robert Bound asked me whether I would come on his radio programme, Monocle on Culture, to talk about a new exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) that looks at The Face magazine in its glory years…
Having reservations
We have all become used to the notes in hotels informing us that towels will only be replaced if you leave them on the floor or that this is a hotel that no longer…
Waxing lyrical
Between meetings in Dubai there was an hour going free and Tyler encouraged me, along with my colleague Luke, to ditch him and make an appointment at 1847, a chain of men’s grooming parlours…
Between a fox and a hard place
1For once the call of the gym beats the tender caress of the duvet. I step out of the house and into the mews and there, waiting for me, is a fox. A fine…
The art of storytelling, whether retold or new, keeps friendships alive
I might have told you this story before – if so, apologies – but its retelling will let me set this column off on the right course. I was working for Time Out magazine in London…
