Business / Food & Drink
Pro Montagna
Monocle laces up its hiking boots to look at an innovative marketing initiative to promote farming and manufacturing in the Swiss Alps.
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Business / Neighbourhood Business
Neighbourhood: Main Street Life
Continuing our series on neighbourhoods we witness the transformation of a turbulent area in Downtown Johannesburg into a lively, creative community.
Business / Food & Drink
Thandi Wine
Based in South Africa, Thandi is the first black-owned-and-operated wine collective in the world and also the largest black-owned exporter. Kashfi Halford visits the vineyards in the Southern Cape to meet the people who…
Business / Entrepreneurialism
Cracking the market
Al Rifai - the 'Rolls-Royce of nut companies' - is famous throughout the Middle East for its perfectly roasted pistachios and giant cashews. Now the Lebanese company has opened a Swedish HQ as it attempts to break into the…
Edits / Food & Drink
Making, baking & brewing
The basic staples of food and drink are often the hardest to get right – and because they're part of day-to-day life, it's tempting for producers to cut corners in the name of efficiency. All too often, the missing ingre…
Design / Craft
Made in Gotland
We head to Gotland, an island off the coast of Sweden, to meet its craftspeople - woodworkers, ceramicists, architects, weavers - and find out what it is that makes Gotland a thriving craft community at a time when others…
Business / Food & Drink
Trångsviken
Monocle expolores how the Swedish town of Trångsviken is developing a reputation for breeding serial entrepreneurs.
Design / Innovation
Burel: Fabricating felt
We follow the fortunes of a Burel factory frozen in time in Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains and rescued by local entrepreneurs João Tomás and Isabel Costa.
Affairs / Craft
The high life
Each Swiss valley has its own culture - even language. Locals make the most of their isolation but also know how to sell their skills. The Lower Engadine has perfected this lost-world vibrancy.
Business / Manufacturing
Sheer Genius
Australia's fine Merino wool producers are seeing business take off as demand for high quality fabrics booms around the world. The market is especially strong in Asia, where China now buys the majority of Australian wool…
Design / Craft
Vienna Apprenticeships
Monocle surveys the relationship between apprenticeships and low unemployment rates in Vienna.
Business / Food & Drink
Kenzo Estate
The Kenzo Estate in Napa Valley, California, is owned by Kenzo Tsujimoto, founder of video games giant Capcom. Monocle visits to see how the company is aiming to break into the global wine market.
Affairs / Arts
Monocolumn
Monday 1 February
The wannabe art capital
One hundred and sixty years after the California Gold Rush lured thousands west with the promise of treasure, the droves are heading back to the Golden State.
Edits / Food & Drink
Kamal’s Table – A Recipe for Lebanon
Kamal Mouzawak, chef, writer and founder of the Souk El Tayeb farmers’ market, has made it his life’s mission to celebrate the regional produce and cuisine of Lebanon. As he prepares a feast for friends in his Batroun…
Design / Craft
THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: Craftsmanship
Some cities come to mind straight away when you think of craft and design, but it's also true that untapped markets offer opportunities for entrepreneurship. We talk to designers and artisans in Shanghai, Bradford, Winter…
Edits / Retail
Handmade Retailers
Monocle finds out why children's books sometimes appeal to adults, learns how to boost employment in the regions with a Heidelberg printing press, and muses on the difference between art books and books about art. These are…
Edits / Travel
Monocle Alpino 2012/2013
The 2012/2013 issue of Monocle Alpino is frosty on the outside, warm within. This year we have waxed our wood, strapped on our skis and gone editorially off-piste in all the right places. On sale from 20 December at good…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Wednesday 31 August
Changing the world one plateful at a time
Chefs are everywhere – on our TVs, on our coffee tables, on the covers of our magazines, mostly flogging their restaurants and their recipes.
Business / Food & Drink
The new deli
The centre of Germany’s second-largest city used to be known for its drugs and sex shops. Now, with ongoing gentrification, comes a retail concept that combines local organic produce with slick design.
Edits / Craft
Mountain producers
From a breed of sheep brought back from extinction in the Italian Dolomites to vintage recipes revitalizing the dairy business in a remote part of Norway, Monocle films brings you inspiring tales of mountain producers on…