Delayed Gratification, Issue 60

Brownbook is the essential guide to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa featuring beautiful photography and original artwork with in-depth stories and interviews on architecture, food, travel and other culture. In this issue: For this latest thick-bodied issue, the magazine heads home to Dubai—a city certainly not lacking in its murky connotations of luxury […]

The exhibitions at the Venice Architecture Biennale showcase the ingenuity and ongoing reinvention shaping the world’s built environment. It’s fitting, then, that the fifth instalment in Monocle’s Companion series uses this event as a springboard for 50 new essays, interviews and ideas from both 2025’s Biennale exhibitors and the wider Monocle community. Highlights include: lessons […]

Not the Harvard-produced satire of the ’60s, Monocle reports the parts of international affairs, policy, culture and social trends that are relevant to people also interested in furniture design, exotic travel…..