An accidental musician, Vendredi sur Mer is not just a writer and poet; she’s a singer too. And she proves it with her second album ‘Métamorphose’.

Catalan city Tarragona boasts some of the world's best-preserved Roman ruins. Architect cousins Ferran and Arnau Tiñena take Monocle on a tour of their projects, which fuse this heritage with a view to the future.

Maison Drucker’s rattan bistro chairs are a recognisable symbol of Parisian life, so much so that restaurants and cafés across the world are putting in their orders.

Away from the French capital, creatives head to the Med for a slower, more affordable way of life.

No wander through a sunny Parisian park or stroll along the Seine is complete without taking time to rest on one of the city’s most iconic pieces of furniture: a Fermob chair. Now the company has been tasked with providing suitable accompaniments for another landmark.

France has an august tradition of homegrown comic-book heroes but its rising stars are now Japanese.

As programmes such as ‘Squid Game’ and ‘Narcos’ capture imaginations worldwide, dubbing has become something to shout about. We meet a family-run firm giving foreign-language film a voice.

Nowhere captures the spirit of Gio Ponti more than a secluded villa that the architect constructed with real affection for his friend.

Jewellery designer Harumi Klossowska de Rola’s latest collection for Goossens Paris.

A behind-the-scenes quest is underway to preserve the world's largest collection of art and antiquities that are now at threat from climate change.

We meet the curator who is showing why art is a worthy addition to our everyday lives.

A 16-storey apartment block on Málaga’s beachfront has been left almost intact for 50 years. An attempt to dismantle its iconic entrance has put it back in the spotlight as an example of the Costa del Sol’s modernist movement.

While renovating a centuries-old hotel in Provence, two fashion consultants found themselves helping to revive the region’s threatened wicker tradition.

The poorest often rely on pets as much as pets rely on their owners. Berlin’s only roving vet cares for both.

Installations at Concéntrico, a design and architecture festival in the Spanish city of Logroño, are challenging residents to look at what surrounds them in new ways.