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Inn focus
The art of inn-keeping requires a natural host, designer and logistician. It takes years to hone the craft of creating an environment where people will want to return again and again.
Bicycle Design
As the concept of urban mobility gains momentum, bike manufacturers are harnessing the world's best industrial designers to re-invent locomotion on two wheels. Monocle's Sarah Balmond reports on design innovation in Copenhagen and Hong…
Thandi Wine
Based in South Africa, Thandi is the first black-owned-and-operated wine collective in the world and also the largest black-owned exporter. Kashfi Halford visits the vineyards in the Southern Cape to meet the people who…
Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
What makes a great hotel manager? Who is shaping the future of hospitality? We visit the famous Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne to observe the service stars of tomorrow as they are put through their…
Gildo Zegna
Editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé welcomes Gildo Zegna, CEO of supreme Italian menswear brand Ermenegildo Zegna, to the Monocle HQ in London to discuss the brand's centenary in 2010 and its longer-term future.
Brasimba beer
For the past eight decades, the Brasimba brewery has provided a rare slice of normality to the people of the DR Congo, a country that has endured a long history of conflict and unrest.…
Media
Monocle reports on the redesign of Germany's Handelsblatt financial newspaper, a controversial Turkish reality TV show, and an Israeli animation studio aiming to compete with Pixar.
How to be a band in 2010
Rock stars are now essentially CEOs of their own small (and big businesses). Learn how to harness patrons, sponsorship and the digital revolution, and you could soon be selling out, without selling out.
With more interest
Sugamo Shinkin Bank’s new Niiza branch features an innovative and colourful design. Looking more like an art gallery than a bank, it's having an uplifting impact on staff and customers.
Expo 28: Space awareness
Japan's cosmic focus is not vain flag-planting but research and exploration. This strategy has led to them developing a rocket vastly superior to the American model, despite politics and cost preventing a manned mission.
