The Monocle Guide to Better Living by Monocle


The Monocle Guide to Better Living
Title : The Monocle Guide to Better Living
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ISBN : 3899554906
ISBN-10 : 9783899554908
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 400
Publication : First published September 25, 2013

Full of writing, reports, and recommendations, The Monocle Guide to Better living is original, informative, entertaining, and comprehensive. Monocle is one of the most successful magazines to be developed in the past decade. Armed with an unmistakable sense of aesthetics and journalistic tenacity, its team -- led by editor-in-chief tyler Brule --has created an intelligent publication that continually inspires a global readership who are interested in everything from diplomacy to design. For its first-ever book, the editorial team looks at one of their core themes: how to live well. The result is The Monocle Guide to Better living, a collection of writing, reports, and recommendations. This is not a book about glitz but rather an upbeat survey of products and ideas meant to be treasured and last. Structured into chapters on the city, culture, travel, food, and work, the book also provides answers to some key questions. Which cities offer the best quality of life? How do you build a good school? How do you run a city? Who makes the best coffee? And how do you start your own inspirational business? The Monocle Guide to Better living works as a guide but also includes 10 essays that explore what makes a great city, why craft is desirable, how to run your own hotel, and why culture is good for you. This is not a book about fashion or the next big thing. It's a book about finding enduring values --from a career you want to keep to furniture that will last a lifetime. It's a book designed to stay relevant, loved, and used. An indispensible guidebook to contemporary life, The Monocle Guide to Better living embodies everything that makes the magazine such a success: easy style and journalistic substance.

The Monocle Guide to Better Living Reviews

  • Oward Bodie

    A compendium of different tidbits from Monocle's past publications. Past reviewers are right that it's already a bit dated: reading it in 2018, after Brazil's economic contraction after years of promise and growth, got a whiff of dusty, early 2010's BRICs fervor. And the rapid rise of vertical e-commerce solutions that promote access to artisanal quality products is, naturally, absent.

    The book is beautifully laid out, and the writing is always sharp and at times insightful, although the same could not necessarily be said of the editorial (Monocle seems to think that the ideal world would basically just consist of Nordic countries, Japan, and a smattering of Australia and Brazil).

  • Mark Askew

    I really enjoyed this and I think your enjoyment will be based on what you are looking to get out of it.

    I was looking for something to add to my book collection by sprinkling it about my book shelves and coffee table to add to the aesthetic. Secondly, I wanted a "coffee table" book. Lastly, I wanted to have something that would provide inspiration that varied from articles to pictures, and this did just that. I really enjoyed paging through this book, and reading the essays. I was not expecting a refreshing and honest takes with the subject matter. I especially liked the second on Home the best. The need to apologize for living in your home when guests come over was of particular interest. The obsession over an instagram/pinterest worthy place makes you wonder where YOU are in your home and if someone actually lives there. Granted, that is no excuse to have your dishes piling up ;-)

  • thaís bambozzi

    O guia hipster sobre uma vida melhor conta com fotografias maravilhosas e me apresentou muitos lugares, estabelecimentos, marcas e coisas diferentes. As reflexões sobre urbanismo foram as minhas preferidas. Os itens referentes ao Brasil são bastante estereotipados e elitizados, deixa bastante a desejar ao tentar mostrar um pouco da nossa identidade.

  • M.A (maianh)

    don’t feel like rating this magazine book because not everything can be rated.

    i enjoyed this one so much — very well-done. it’s classy, sophisticated, knowledgeable, amusing, and highly stunning! (if the book was a person, they would sound like that)

  • Ruben Baetens

    From now on a.k.a. 'The Monocle Guide to a Better Society' ...

  • Frances Wilde

    Favourite section was the one on home!
    A great design book with fantastic photographs - precise + passionate without being pretentious or concerned with an instagram-like aesthetic.

  • Antonia

    This is rather the hipster guide to travel. Enjoyed the photographs and the well synthesized short texts accompanying them however I wasn't very keen on the selections accented in the book. Especially the section "Services" I found very weak and clumsy. You can easily substitute the gap with Todd Selby's books - "Selby at Your Place" and "Edible Selby".

  • Ștefania Ioana Chiorean

    Easy guide, longer magazine. An interesting gathering of recommendations for traveling, health, culture, house and many more. I wish it was a bit more diverse ( I felt the recommendations would float around 10 max 15 counties) just for the sake of discoverability. I had a really good time reading it, it sets a nice, calm, hygge mood.

  • Wei

    Inspiring read.

  • Giberjikey

    meh