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Architecture/Design
Architect Deborah Berke talks about her new book, and a London designer's recycled furniture causes a stir in Austria and Norway.
Art market
Hip-hop's money folders sell their rocks in New York and modern art titans get hammered in Japan.
Fashion
Sisterly New York womenswear label Lialia, some legendary Japanese denim hits europe, plus Makr's vintage-feel wallets.
Living large
In Monocle’s dream residential building, we’d include features of 19th-century Parisian flats and early 20th-century New York apartments. Attention developers: veneers and fashionable embellishments are not the way forward.
Observation
Many hotels bombard us with unnecessary extras when we just need the simple things done well. Isn’t it time they ditched the gimmickry and concentrated on the basics of good hospitality?
Shelf life
Each issue, we take an everyday pursuit or situation and give it the *Monocle* overhaul. This month, we stock up on some late-summer essentials to fill the shelves of our perfect pantry.
In the Pink
Pinkberry yoghurt is a franchise idea so obvious, you'll wish you'd thought of it first. Its explosive growth went from one LA store in 2005 to multiple locations in New York and London.
