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Cycle chain
Emilio Aldo Renesto is a steelwork specialist whose frames are one of the first links in northern Italy’s small yet sturdy bicycle industry.
Stepping forward
Santoni’s shoemaking apprentices can take six years to learn the precise, careful trade. Master shoemaker Silvano Sollini reveals his pride in passing on the craft to a younger generation in Italy.
Art market
A Q&A with the founder of a Turin-based art organisation, plus new galleries and art sales.
Business class
In the heart of Milan, SDA Bocconi is ranked as one of the world’s best business schools. With 70 per cent of students from abroad, we visit the campus to learn more.
Fashion
From a menswear shop in Houston to a womenswear label from Budapest, we round up the new and notable in the world of fashion.
The art of simplicity
Luxury cosmetics brand Three needed an Aoyama space to echo its understated image. Monocle meets the architects and creative team behind the shop, spa and restaurant that has resulted from the brief.
Expo 70: Going for gold
Once Queensland’s answer to Las Vegas, the gold coast’s 1950s architecture fell victim to drastic redevelopment. Now there are efforts to revive its fortunes.
Double vision
The arrival of the new Museo Jumex in Mexico City sees it sitting side-by-side with an earlier philanthropic art pile, the Museo Soumaya. Is the city big enough for both?
Object lessons
From an urban hub for furniture-makers to a man-made island design destination and a studio in a woodland haven, Monocle reveals some daring pockets of inspiration from around the globe.
