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It’s a wrap
A leafy getaway spot in central Japan provides the backdrop to our autumn menswear shoot. Here’s our pick of warm coats, jackets and knitwear to keep you cosy as temperatures fall.
Type cast
Typefaces have been used for centuries, but only now has the first brick-and-mortar shop selling fonts opened. Copenhagen branding company e-Types is hoping its seasonal store is the start of something big.
Making airwaves
Hilversum was the centre of Dutch broadcasting for a century, a model media city of daring architecture. Now, the city is searching for new relevance in the digital media age.
Life as art
Renowned textile artist Kay Sekimachi has lived in her Berkeley home for over 50 years. Indoors it’s a warm celebration of furniture and fabrics in which the artist's life very much imitates her art.
Jens Risom
The Danish designer chooses a historic restaurant, full of personal memories, in his adopted US hometown as the venue for his hypothetical ‘farewell banquet’.
Inventory No. 47
This month Monocle’s most desired products include a training kit to master wine aromas, an oversized skateboard made from a 19th-century library table and two must-have items for coffee addicts.
Rugs to riches
The ‘made in Switzerland’ tag is more associated with precise timekeeping than carpets. But one firm in Altbüron is showing that delivering a high-quality product can go a long way.
Culture
Book, film and music reviews, plus culture editor Robert Bound on what makes an icon.
My Frieze Art Fair
The international art world flocks to London for Frieze Art Fair. Monocle meets five key figures involved with the fair to discuss their experiences of Frieze week.
