The Monocle Travel Guide Series: New York

Local insights and recommendations from superb cultural reporters

Since 2007, the cultural purveyors at MONOCLE magazine have kept a bureau in New York City. During this time, they’ve explored the inner workings of a city in constant change. They’ve dug into every lifestyle sector worth exploring and presented it in their acclaimed monthly publication. Now, their up-to-date findings can be found in the comprehensive MONOCLE Travel Guide Series, published by Gestalten. The MONOCLE …

Marc Janssen and ICE International

From the Baccarat Hotel to generational family partnerships, how one Dutch company is redefining floor coverings, one carpet at a time

Oftentimes called “the fifth wall,” carpets play a hugely important role in interior decorating. Marc Janssen, one of the world’s foremost rug-makers, puts it simply when he says he loves “reading a newspaper and just sitting on it.” But, as an object that straddles the intimacy of furniture, the beauty of artwork and the defining role of walls, floor coverings also must withstand heaps of …

All That Dazzles at the Wynn Macau

The senses are meant to be stimulated in each nook and cranny of the mega-hotel complex

A visit to Macau, the SAR region of China more widely known as the Las Vegas of the East, isn’t complete without having all of the senses overwhelmed at once. And with mega hotel-casino complexes competing with one another to entice new visitors (and card players), these experiences aren’t hard to come by—think the world’s largest rooftop wave pool at the Galaxy Macau or an …