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Monocle's Ivan Carvalho visits this year's Genoa Boat Show to learn how makers of pleasure craft are making evasive manoeuvres by pitching pro-environment messages and updating cabin interiors with big names from the world of design.

Step inside the Savile Row tailoring house that has modernised without losing a drop of its heritage. Norton and Sons young, new owner, Patrick Grant, personally picks his cloths from some of Britain's best mills.

Thomas Demand, one of Germany's most iconic contemporary artists, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound reports.

Alfred Sirleaf's Daily Talk newspaper reaches thousands of Liberians every day but only ever produces one copy. How does he do it? By writing the day's biggest stories on a large blackboard beside a busy road in the capital.

Bujumbura has got all the substance - and architecture - required to turn Burundi's backwater capital into an African success story.

In the run-up to the Frankfurt Motor Show, Monocle editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé talks to Adrian van Hooydonk, head of design at BMW, about designing cars to suit the times, consumer expectations and the relationship between drawing board and driver.

While the Jogos da Lusofonia may not have the same draw as the Commonwealth Games, the gathering of the old Portuguese empire showed that no matter how tenuous the links to Lisbon, there's plenty of strength in numbers.

If you're Germany, you have no option but to assert yourself globally with a softly, softly approach,

Summer may be getting on but there are still plenty of balmy evenings and hazy days to enjoy before the autumn closes in.

Monocle's Sarah Balmond reports from the AP Møller School, tucked away on the outskirts of Schleswig in northern Germany.

The Dutch design academy at Eindhoven, in collaboration with Dela - one of the Netherland's biggest funeral insurers - are rethinking the way we'll be remembered in a world where religion has taken a back seat.

Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore an old-fashioned sense of community.  Here are five doing just that.

Our 2009 global round-up of the people, places and pursuits to improve the way you live, work and rest.

In our second film from the Venice Art Biennale, Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound goes off piste to explore the curatorial instincts at François Pinault's new Punta Della Dogana.

In the first of two films from the 53rd Venice Art Biennale, Monocle culture editor Robert Bound reports on national pavilions as shop windows for contemporary art and national identity.