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Home brew
A café unchanged since the 1960s has become a great place to indulge in good coffee and the best of Norwegian design.
Craft Punk – Milan
This year Design Miami staged an installation at Salone del Mobile that created a public atelier for emerging designers to make and show their work. Monocle's design editor Sarah Balmond looks at CRAFT PUNK's…
Only salone
Il Salone del Mobile, the world’s biggest furniture fair, is a bellwether of the industry and a showcase for new ideas. Monocle finds out that the immediate future looks promising.
Architecture/design
Monocle's picks from the Stockholm furniture fair, an interview with Salvadoran duo the Washingtons, a layered house in Hokkaido and a pad that warms the cockles in the chilly far north of Norway.
Architecture/design
Japanese architect Yasuhiro Yamashita talks us through his aluminium housing project, plus a new landmark in Ljubljana and the traditional Japanese washi paper finding new markets.
Light bulb moment
Formerly a light bulb manufacturer, Shotoku began making hand-blown glassware in the 1950s. Today its ultra-thin Usuhari glasses are the toast of the town. And it still continues to innovate.
Make it better
Akershus University Hospital by CF Møller was created on the principle that good design makes you feel better. Well lit and easy to navigate, it features bespoke, locally crafted furniture and state-of-the-art technology.
House doctor
In Marylebone, London, a petite penthouse is transformed from a doctor's surgery, using Swiss carpenters and Danish storage to handle a mass of media and an upside-down layout.
Home rescue
Appalled by the demolition of traditional houses in Japan’s Saga prefecture, New York restaurateur Mikio Shinagawa set about saving and restoring them, even selling one to Robert De Niro.
