Monocle Design Directory – Issue 1 (2025/2026)

Monocle Design Directory Issue 1 (2025/2026) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. The premiere issue of the Monocle Design Directory is out now. We spotlight creative communities around the globe, take an inside look at contemporary Mexican residences and report on the 20th-century Catalan furniture designers finally getting the attention that they deserve. From picking up tools at a Pennsylvanian trade school teaching the next generation of makers to sitting down with leading designers on their sofas, we take a tour of the world’s top talent. Plus: An international directory of the studios that should be on everyone’s radar.

Limited-edition cover 2/4 available: São Paulo

Monocle magazine is a global look at current affairs, business, culture and design, with articles on politics and business in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, news on global culture from cultural centres like Tokyo, Paris and London, and featuring inspiring designs. Published 10 times a year and with many fans of it’s style and content, Monocle provides a close look at everything going on in the world. 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 and development theory. If this is you, then you’ve just found a new reason to get up in the morning. Newly created by the same team originally responsible for Wallpaper*, reading Monocle will make yourself more interesting. A cosmopolitan internationalist look at the world – a magazine for the thinking person.

Details: Monocle Design Directory Issue 1

English, 172 pages