Monocle May 2025 #183

From Swedish textiles and Middle Eastern makers to Mexican architecture, Monocle’s May issue showcases the 50 designs, people and places that have emerged as winners of our annual Design Awards. Plus: we go back to school in Sardinia for some fighter-jet training, stop over in Mumbai to visit India’s leading weaving school and wander round Beirut’s thriving cultural institutions. 

Monocle magazine was launched in 2007 to provide a briefing on global affairs, business, culture, design and much more. We believed that there was a globally minded audience of readers who were hungry for opportunities and experiences beyond their national borders. Today, Monocle is published 10 times a year out of our HQs at Midori House and Dufourstrasse 90 in Zürich, and we now sell more than 80,000 copies per issue and have 24,000 subscribers and growing.