Monocle is to style what Vogue is to fashion. This book is not a re-use of previously published articles, but a genuine, stand-alone Monocle guide to living a fulfilling life.
Monocle is one of the most successful magazine concepts of recent years. Equipped with an unfailing aesthetic sense and journalistic persistence, the team around Wallpaper founder Tyler Brûlé has developed a magazine that is both classic and inspiring, intelligent, for its demanding and global, but not globalized readership. For The Monocle Guide to Better Living, the editorial team has now researched the best theses and topics from around the world and is thus presenting an informative, entertaining and independent compilation of recommendations in book form for the first time.
The book's chapters deal with our central concerns in life: culture, travel, food and drink, work. Which cities are particularly livable and loveable? How do you find the right school or university for your children - and how do you recognize a good residential area? How could you set up your home or office?
Complemented by concrete advice on art, culture, books and other things that enrich our lives, reports and essays on the advantages of having your own camera, hotel management or inspiring business models accompany the selection and, in the usual charming Monocle tone - and in the usual journalistic quality - ask important, and indeed critical questions: Which products are useful and sensual? Which changes will shape our lives? How can we steer current developments in a healthy direction? How can critical and responsible consumption be combined with luxury and quality of life?
With this mixture of sophisticated but never out of touch intelligent lifestyle, which also holds up beyond the next trend, The Monocle Guide to Better Living is becoming an indispensable handbook for a contemporary attitude to life. And in doing so, it brings to the point everything that has already made the magazine great: subtle style and journalistic substance.
Portrait: Monocle founder Tyler Brûlé, as a former war correspondent, wallpaper inventor and Financial Times columnist, combines the best prerequisites for a complex and critical examination of global social events.
Since 2007, London-based but globally celebrated Monocle magazine has dared to join forces with intelligent pop culture, politics and post-materialism in a cosmopolitan manner, successfully opposing common views with its own ideas of design and style.
Monocle is to style what Vogue is to fashion. This book is not a re-use of previously published articles, but a genuine, stand-alone Monocle guide to living a fulfilling life.
Monocle is one of the most successful magazine concepts of recent years. Equipped with an unfailing aesthetic sense and journalistic persistence, the team around Wallpaper founder Tyler Brûlé has developed a magazine that is both classic and inspiring, intelligent, for its demanding and global, but not globalized readership. For The Monocle Guide to Better Living, the editorial team has now researched the best theses and topics from around the world and is thus presenting an informative, entertaining and independent compilation of recommendations in book form for the first time.
The book's chapters deal with our central concerns in life: culture, travel, food and drink, work. Which cities are particularly livable and loveable? How do you find the right school or university for your children - and how do you recognize a good residential area? How could you set up your home or office?
Complemented by concrete advice on art, culture, books and other things that enrich our lives, reports and essays on the advantages of having your own camera, hotel management or inspiring business models accompany the selection and, in the usual charming Monocle tone - and in the usual journalistic quality - ask important, and indeed critical questions: Which products are useful and sensual? Which changes will shape our lives? How can we steer current developments in a healthy direction? How can critical and responsible consumption be combined with luxury and quality of life?
With this mixture of sophisticated but never out of touch intelligent lifestyle, which also holds up beyond the next trend, The Monocle Guide to Better Living is becoming an indispensable handbook for a contemporary attitude to life. And in doing so, it brings to the point everything that has already made the magazine great: subtle style and journalistic substance.
Portrait: Monocle founder Tyler Brûlé, as a former war correspondent, wallpaper inventor and Financial Times columnist, combines the best prerequisites for a complex and critical examination of global social events.
Since 2007, London-based but globally celebrated Monocle magazine has dared to join forces with intelligent pop culture, politics and post-materialism in a cosmopolitan manner, successfully opposing common views with its own ideas of design and style.