Japanese company Time & Style knows how to inject innovative spirit into traditional crafts. Over the past two decades its founder Ryutaro Yoshida has criss-crossed Japan to woo reluctant artisans to collaborate on modern…
The world’s largest hourglass seemed a fitting piece of public art for Japan's Tottori: the western prefecture’s seaside sand dunes are its biggest tourist attraction. But the Tottori Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s…
The redesign for the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, a new collection from furniture designer Gesa Hansen, plus a Japanese architect who relocates neglected rural buildings to a new life in the city.
Japan’s long-distance trains are entering a new era of luxury and innovation. Monocle visits the industrial and interior designers who are redefining train travel.
Nothing says summer like a hedonistic dollop of ice cream or gelid gelato. Whether it’s an ice lolly dripping down your chin in Sydney or a dizzying line-up of flavours at a Neapolitan gelateria, it’s a temptation to be…