Design/Culture: Monocle Magazine – November 2023
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Design/Culture: Monocle Magazine – September 2023
- TIME FOR CHANGE – It’s easy to become stuck in a groove, doing things the same old way. Monocle’s editor in chief, Andrew Tuck, throws down the challenge: make this the month that you step back out there and do something differently – even if it is just getting a sharp, new haircut.
- THE OPENER – Monocle has a network of correspondents in cities around the world. Our brief dispatches include good news for pedestrians in Bangkok, a smart hotel in Tokyo and transformed spaces in Los Angeles.
- FREEING VERSE – The US poet laureate believes that poetry can help us to live more fully. That’s why she is bringing it into America’s national parks.
- WINGS FOR HIRE – Meet the island hoppers training the next generation of pilots.
- THE WOOL PACK – It’s a tough, lonely job and your co-workers are always bleating. So why are students flocking to Andalusia’s shepherd school?
Travel & Design: Dwell Magazine – July/Aug 2023
Dwell – July/August 2023 issue: The Travel Issue: Destination Homes From Bhutan to the Beach; Perfect Perches: High-Design Hiking Cabins in the Italian Alps…
How Airstream Became an American Icon
Tracing the unconventional route of the all-aluminum trailer that’s an emblem of road trips and 20th-century style.
In the Shenandoah Valley, a Mountain Home Channels the Spirit of the Aegean
Architecture firm Schaum/Shieh designed a white home with walls that play with light and shadow for a retired professor and a playwright.
By Samuel Medina – a day ago
Design/Culture: Monocle Magazine – July/Aug 2023
We also get set for summer by gardening in Hiroshima, dining in Marseille and dancing in Mexico City. Plus: how Bratislava’s bass-playing, architect mayor is helping the city to find its groove.
- QUALITY TIME – With the sun shining and our cities in bloom, it’s once again time to take stock of urban initiatives the world over as we reveal this year’s liveability index and meet the municipal patrons helping to give their towns a boost. Find out where your city ranks.
- THE OPENER – Tyler Brûlé ponders the absence of North American cities in this year’s Quality of Life Survey.
- MAN FOR ALL SEASONS – For renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, the most effective urban greening projects grow out of long-term thinking.
- CILLIT BANGSY – Clean and Art is helping to keep Tokyo’s streets free from graffiti. Monocle joins the team restoring order to the urban landscape.
- IN THEIR ELEMENT – The dramatic open-plan offices of this scientific-research group make for staff with unrivalled chemistry.
Design/Culture: Monocle Magazine — June 2023 Issue
Issue 164 also includes an Art Special that puts collectors, galleries and this year’s Art Basel in the frame.
Plus: a guide to the Venice Architecture Biennale and a rare venture into Syria.
Ever dreamed of ditching the rat race for a life on the land?
Design/Culture: Monocle Magazine —May 2023
Dutch master
A former waterside inn in a quiet fishing village north of Amsterdam is now a cosy hotel and restaurant where good food, nice design and big views all entice you to linger. Monocle takes a first look.ByJosh FehnertPhotographyJulie Mayfeng
Design Awards: Part 1
For the third annual Monocle Design Awards, we’ve scoured the globe for the best in architecture, furniture, graphic design and more, to celebrate projects improving our lives – while looking good.Edited byNic MonissePhotographyBenjamin Swanson
“I was a motorcycle hater,” says Stefan Ytterborn. That is, before the Swedish entrepreneur tried a few electric ones and got so hooked that he decided to design his own. Cake’s first model, Kalk, put competitors to shame with a design weighing 40 per cent less than the average motorbike. In 2021 Cake started shipping out Kalk &, an upgrade engineered for both commutes and off-road escapades. “During the week you ride the bike from home to work, and during the weekend you bring it out to the countryside,”…
Travel & Living: Cotswold Life Magazine – May 2023
COTSWOLD LIFE MAGAZINE – MAY 2023: The issue features the folklore, sayings and celebrations of Maytime; 24-hours in Burford; @Benfogle on health scares, hope & homesickness; from Elgar to Beatlemania at @AbbeyRoad; an illustrated guide to #Uley; a folkloric walk by the River Severn.
Culture/Society: Monocle Magazine – April 2023
EDITOR’S LETTER – Bricks-and-mortar retail, from tiny independent shops to giant malls, can shape and inspire the community around it. Andrew Tuck finds Monocle’s Retail Survey reflecting what we’ve always believed: that in-person experiences are the most valuable. There’s plenty more too.
Lifestyle: Country Life Magazine – March 22, 2023
A spectacularly converted 15th century watermill with original beams, glorious surroundings and a minstrels’ gallery
Once derelict, Gurney Manor Mill was rescued in the early 1990s and transformed into a lovely family home.
Any property that is surrounded by water is guaranteed to be impressive. It’s sort of an unwritten rule. Naturally, as a former watermill, Gurney Manor Mill falls into this category: the mill and its 1.2 acres of gardens are surrounded by the historicwater system, creating a bucolic setting.
Thirsty work
Amelia Thorpe selects watering cans for the home and garden
Food stuff: a simple guide to nutrients and fertilisers
Don’t know your potassium from your phosphorus? Fear not, as Steven Desmond explains what to feed your plants and when
Blossoming ideas
There’s more to ornamental apple trees than merely fruit, reveals Charles Quest-Ritson
Holey moley!
Meet the ‘gentleman in velvet’—Harry Pearson unearths the underground world of the mole
Lifestyle: Country Life Magazine- February 1, 2023
Travel — Let Country Life guide you along the paths less travelled
The snapshot
Giardino dell’Iris, Florence, Italy
Keeping up with the dames
Jo Rodgers feels right at home in glamorous Paris, and we pick our favourite European hotels
Sleep like a champion
Here’s where to bed down after watching the Olympics in 2024
The magnificent seven
Seven spectacular islands—from Menorca to Manhattan
The Atlantic’s green lung
Rosalyn Wikeley gets away from it all in the ‘Hawaii of Europe’
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