Hog Eat Hog. AKA Blair Sligar. Wood Furniture. Florida.

Props to grainandgram for their beautiful feature on Blair.
Watch the recent MONOCLE feature on Hog Eat Hog HERE.
Furniture and sculpture from salvaged and local materials. Brilliant craftsmanship.
hogeathog.com

Kamal Mouzawak. Chef. Writer. Culinary activist. Beirut.

The Brownbook Urban Series.

Kamal on (my fave) Anthony Bourdain's No Resevations - Back To Beirut episode.

Kamal Mouzawak created the first farmers’ market in Beirut, called Souk el-Tayeb (tayeb means ”tasting good” in Lebanese), helping to preserve the food traditions/culture of sustainable agriculture in Lebanon. Kamal works to protect the interests of small, local farmers and producers, enabling them to sell their products directly at the market, thus ensuring a fair price for their goods. "In a country as divided as Lebanon, nothing can bring people together as much as the land and food”, said Mouzawak. Souk el-Tayeb has evolved into a network of 100 members serving over 350 farmers, at three different farmers markets, and has collaborated with similar agricultural initiatives in neighboring countries. Souk el-Tayeb has expanded its operations to include educational programs in local schools and food festivals across the country to celebrate Lebanon’s culinary heritage. Kamal comes from a family of farmers, which is why he has such a deep appreciation for his country's rich diversity of naturally grown foods. His restaurant, Tawlet (“table” in Arabic), located in Beirut, offers Lebanon’s artisan food producers/cooks from different regions, the opportunity to showcase their traditional dishes on a rotating basis. Radness.

Watch MONOCLE's feature on Kamal here.

Made in Gotland. Monocle News Report.

Gotland is an island off the coast of Sweden home to a big community of craftspeople - woodworkers, ceramicists, architects, weavers... rad place.
Watch HERE.

Monocle. Style Directory. Shopkeepers.

Monocle travels to London, Madrid, and NY to visit independent shopkeepers who are raising the bar in menswear retailing. LOVE it. WATCH HERE.

Copenhagen Fashion Week. Monocle Report.

watch HERE.

Art International Radio. Monocle.

Art International Radio is an internet radio station based in the Clocktower in lower Manhattan, a building famous for having been at the centre of NY’s art scene in the 1970s-80s. At the helm is Alanna Heiss, who’s been at the forefront of contemporary art in NYC for decades and was the founder of the awesome PS1, a centre for art in Queens that’s now part of the Museum of Modern Art. AIR broadcasts art-related talk and interviews as well as an eclectic range of music, and experiments with radio theatre and more ambitious sound-based extensions of art projects. Watch the Monocle piece HERE.

James Corner. Reshaping Cities. MONOCLE.

British-born landscape architect James Corner is one of the pioneering individuals who have taken up the task of sorting out the nation's urban environments. He's responsible for the amazing High Line in NY.
Watch and listen to the monocle report on Corner HERE.

The Rapha Cycle Club. Monocle.

The Rapha Cycle Club is a pop-up shop, café, gallery and meeting spot for road-racing enthusiasts in London. It’s the latest project by Rapha, a web-based retail brand selling high-quality cycle clothing and accessories since its inception in 2004.
WATCH HERE.

Taipei Cycle Show. Monocle Review.

WATCH HERE

Vintage Danish design. Monocle.

Monocle goes to Copenhagen to see how classic Danish furniture continues to inspire a nation of designers and features Modern Danish Warehouse pop up shop in London: WATCH HERE

Design Miami. Monocle.

Watch monocle's piece on Miami's design scene HERE

Monocle + Death Spray Custom. London.

Death Spray=air brushing designers who specialize in helmets, bikes, and snowboards.
deathspraycustom.com

Jeff Rubin. Author. Economist. Toronto.

Read this book.
Listen to Monocle Weekly interview with Jeff here.

The Monocle Weekly. Podcast.

Some of the features:
The godfather of branding, Wally Olins, gives us a colourful lesson on nation branding and reveals how brand Baltic is holding up in the downturn.
Richard Wilkinson is on the line to discuss the success of his latest book, The Spirit Level - a timely call to action to combat the rich/poor divide in unsettled times.
Design editor Sarah Balmond on her upcoming trip to the Salone del Mobile in Milan this week.
Previous post on monocleweekly here.
monocle.com

Andrew Holder. California.

Screen print on hand painted paper.

Acrylic and airbrush on panel.

For Monocle mag.

andrewholder.net

Monocle: Keffiyeh. Made in Palestine.

WATCH HERE.
French journalist Benoit Faiveley visits the last Palestinian keffiyeh factory in Hebron on the West Bank. For Monocle.

The Monocle Review.

WATCH THIS.
On the programme: community radio in Bangkok, Copenhagen’s Hotel Nimb, the architecture of diplomacy in Kathmandu+Harare, the urban renewal of the Nigerian capital Abuja, and a bookseller in Beirut.

The Monocle Weekly.

I'm a HUGE fan of Monocle... both the mag + site are fantastic... now the Monocle team has a podcast that airs every Sunday... listen to the 1st (December) edition here The-Monocle-Weekly.
p.s Tyler Brûlé, can we be friends please?