The British artichect reflects on being tasked with planning the world’s seventh Ismaili Centre, and maintaining Islamic ...

As Europe’s premier retail fair, Euroshop, celebrates 60 years, we investigate the latest technological advances and find ...

Gildo Zegna, the CEO-turned-chair of the Zegna Group, sits down with Monocle to discuss succession, learning to say no ...

By building joint ventures and sharing intellectual-property rights with its clients, design studio SR_A has launched ...

For canny designers, a small label is the place to set the tone. Brands such as Fiorucci, Fjällräven and CYC use clever ...

“In the 1990s a journalist from Weekendavisen won Denmark’s main journalistic award, the Cavling Prize.” In the first of our ...

It’s little wonder that Bertin was known as the ministre des modes – the minister of fashion. The importance of styling in ...

Tokyo-based collector Junichi Matsuzaki has spent more than two decades amassing retro audio units. Here he lets us in ...

The newly opened Italian embassy in London makes good use of the country’s cultural prowess as a tool of diplomacy. We take a ...

While the US is implementing widespread closures of their embassies and consulates abroad, nations such as the UAE, Turkey ...

From first-century artefacts to ancient Egyptian sculpture, the Paris gallery deals in some of the world’s rarest and most ...

This issue, we spotlight the enduring importance of diplomatic missions in an increasingly fractious world. Our editor in ...