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?
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,”…
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.
Culture/Society: Monocle Magazine – February 2023
Cover Preview: Monocle Magazine – July/Aug 2022
Where is the best place to live? What makes a city tick? How can we improve our lot? Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey has posed this question for the past 15 years and 2022’s July/August issue contains the latest. How does your city fare? Plus: hot looks, sunny stays and the perfect summer playlist.
- AT THE FRONT
- THE AGENDA: GLOBAL BRIEFINGS
- IN THE HOT SEAT Europe’s first chief heat officer reflects on a year in the hot seat.
- AFFAIRS A radical Lebanese MP, and Andrew Mueller on the Australian election.
- COMMENT A Dutch flower-and-plant fair is teaching the world how to green its urban environments.
- BUSINESS Croissant-mania consumes Berlin, and talent leaves China as a result of lockdown fatigue.
- CULTURE The 75th Cannes film festival, a Finnish art fair and the oldest bookseller school in France.
- DESIGN The Royal College of Art in London has a new wing and Venice’s Procuratie Vecchie reopens.
Cover Preview: Monocle Magazine – February 2022
Views: Monocle Magazine – December/January 2022
Monocle’s December/January issue is packed full of insights and inspiration to see you through to the new year, from our annual Soft Power Survey to a look into Detroit’s thriving art scene.
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