SPORTING LIFE
Mind Over Movement
MONACO MIGHT BE KNOWN for its glamour, but for me, it's home. I moved to Europe in 2011 to pursue my racing career. It was a big change at...
By Mitch Evans
Curated perspectives from the world’s most influential circles
On the cover
SIGNALS
The Innovation Dividend
CLIMATE CHANGE AND climate policy have been sidelined in public debate for a while. These days, geopolitics and the erratic and confrontat...
By Norbert Ruecker
Talk Of The Rock
A Yacht By Any Other Name
For nearly a century, the Deo Juvante has sailed through oceans and eras, glamour and romance, and adventure and survival. Nine owners charted the iconic yacht in fresh waters, but her identity remain...
By Annette Anderson
L'Art De Vivre
The Vigneron
VITICULTURE IS A CRAFT that asks much, yet gives just as much in return. Working the vine means living in constant dialogue with nature - reading its moods, respecting its rhythms, a...
By H.R.H. Prince Felix of Luxembourg
STYLE
Vintage Edits
THERE WAS A TIME when vintage was whispered about - hidden in discreet boutiques, reserved for collectors, or dismissed as nostalgic indulgence. Today, it speaks with confidence. Not loudly, but with precision. Vintage has become one of the most intelligent choices in fashion - a st...
By Inna Dudakova
Talk Of The Rock
Cue Princess
IN APRIL 1956, the American actress Grace Kelly married the prince of a faraway country in a fairy-tale wedding - not just once but twice. It’s public knowledge that Grace wed Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a traditional civil ceremony on one day and then in an epic, highly-publici...
By Annette Anderson
SIGNALS
The Shoe Maker
IT WAS A LONG JOURNEY from founding Reebok in 1958 to becoming the number one global sports brand in 1987, outselling Nike as the most popular athletic shoe in the world. Sadly, during that journey, I lost my brother Jeff at a very critical time. I was in the U.S. when he was taken ill and had been operated on for stomach cancer before I arrived back in the UK. A few days later, on March 6, 1980, he died at the age of 46. Only nine months earlier Runners World had awarded Reebo...
By Joe Foster
This is my faith, my path, my ground, A missing piece of land I found. oil to turn, fruits to share, By Valtteri Bottas
Inner Circles
Blueprint For Authority
IN KEEPING WITH ITS COMMITMENT to localized expertise, The Monegasque™ is pleased to announce the expansion of its editorial board with the appointments of H.R.H. Prince Fel...
By Luiz F. Costa Macambira
In the current landscape of digital communication, the human voice and face have become vulnerable targets for sophisticated mimicry. As artificial intelligence grows increasingly adept at synthesizing realistic digital replicas, the foundational trust of a video call or a voice note has begun to er...
By Alexander Agafiev
JOURNEYS
A Shared Vocabulary Of Excellence
THERE ARE HOTELS that define a skyline, and then there are hotels that define a city. In Singapore, Marina Bay Sands does both. Its triple-tower silhouette - a futuristic colossus crowned by the world’s most cinematic rooftop pool - has long been an emblem of the Lion City’s audacit...
By Luiz F. Costa MacambiraON THE VIDEO DIGITAL COVER
Experience the allure of Monaco's elite with The Monegasque Digital Video Cover, showcasing a captivating lineup of illustrious monegasque personalities.
Antonio Salvatore
Antonio Salvatore - A Food Editor for The Monegasque™ , covering culinary art and food trends, Michelin-starred chef Antonio Salvatore was born in Basilicata, Italy, and has traveled extensively, honing his craft in Spain, England, and Russia. Now based in Monaco, he serves refined contemporary Italian cuisine at Rampoldi’s exclusive five-table setting, using top-quality ingredients from Menton, San Remo, and Southern Italy. His signature dishes include bottoni di vitello tonnato, cabri dodici ore, and texture di cioccolato, while at the brasserie, he reimagines classic dishes with a modern twist.
JOURNEYS
A DECADE ABOVE THE REST
TOGETHER WITH MY PARTNERS, Matthieu Orioli (now COO) and Patrick Rossire (now CFO), we founded Simply Jet in early 2016, shortly after graduating from the École Hôtelière de Lausanne. Our ambition was to bring finest Swiss hospitality to the private jet charter industry. We entered the market with a service model based on personalised attention, lean operations, and a “Pay as You Fly” structure, removing the long-term commitments common in the market. This approach offered clien...
By Yann-Guillaume Jaccard
Arts
NATURE AS IS
NATURE is the most enchanting creation of the Universe. It reveals itself through dazzling, colorful flowers, sun-drenched fruits, extraordinary animals, majestic mountains, deep blue rivers and seas, and the infinite celestial sphere above us.
For centuries, nature has been the primary source of inspiration for painters, artists, and poets alike. Their works have reflected its shapes, its colors, its visible reality as well as its spiritual and symbolic dimensions, often inter...
By Helga Piaget
Arts
THE BAROMETER OF THE ART AUCTION
AS AN ART ADVISOR with decades spent navigating the ebbs and flows of the global art market, I’ve witnessed firsthand how collectors build legacies that transcend fleeting trends and economic turbulence. My aim is always to offer clear-eyed guidance on the art market and its forces. In a world where markets can swing wildly, the true value lies in assembling collections of museum-caliber works, pieces with impeccable provenance, historical resonance, and the rarity that ensures...
By Karolina Blasiak
SIGNALS
VANISHING ACT
THERE ARE STORIES in the automotive world that border on folklore, tales whispered in the rarified air of concours lawns, exchanged between collectors as one might trade legends of lost empires. Yet few possess the alchemy of fact, myth, and melancholy that surrounds Bugatti’s most enigmatic creation, the Type 57 SC Atlantic known as La Voiture Noire.
A few editions ago in these pages, Etienne Salomé rekindled the embers of this mystery with his reflections on the Atlantic’s sc...
By H.I.R.H. Archduke Carl Christian of Austria
SPORTING LIFE
STUDYING AT FULL THROTTLE
THERE IS A CERTAIN HOUR in Monaco - after the sun has slipped behind the hills of the Tête de Chien, and before the harbor fully settles - when the Principality seems to remember itself. Engines once screamed here. Legends once walked these pavements quietly, anonymously, long before the world learned their names. Living here, you feel that memory in the air. And when a young Brazilian driver chooses Monaco as home, the city, almost imperceptibly, pays attention.
It does so wit...
By Miguel Costa
Arts
ENDLESS SUN-DAYS
AT THE CENTER of Xevi Solà’s paintings is a familiar summer scene - and an unfamiliar sense of unease. A swimming pool glimmers in the sun, bodies linger at its edge, and time appears to stall. In Endless Sun-days, Solà’s first solo exhibition in New York, debuting at Opera Gallery this February, the Spanish artist presents scenes of leisure that unfold into subtle emotional dramas, charged with introspection beneath their luminous surfaces.
Comprising fifteen new paintings, th...
By Damien Simonelli
WORLD
PHOTO SENSITIVE
ON A WARM JANUARY DAY in 1833, far from the gilded salons of Paris, history quietly shifted in a modest room in Campinas, São Paulo. With a homemade camera obscura and a sheet of chemically treated paper, Hercule Florence - an Italo-Franco-Monegasque inventor with an artist’s soul - accompanied by pharmacist Joaquim Corrêa de Mello, fixed light into an image. They called what they had made photographie. The word would later conquer the world, but this first utterance came six ye...
By Antonio Francisco Alvares Florence
PERSON OF INTEREST
The Clause Collector
The email arrived at 11:47 P.M. from a law firm account with one of those polite, tidy signatures - Best regards, followed by a wall of phone numbers. Marjorie saw it while standing in her kitchen, rinsing a wineglass.
Marjorie ran development at a mid-sized American cultural institution with an impressive history, a modest endowment, and a clinical fear of the phrase restricted funds. Years in the job had given her the ability to sound delighted on the phone while silently calculating the staf...
By Sophie Orléans
MONAPINIONTM
Thoughts, arguments, opinions and reflections
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H.R.H. Prince Felix of Luxembourg
THE VIGNERON
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H.R.H. Prince Michel of Yugoslavia
A ROYAL UNCOVERING
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H.I.R.H. Archduke Carl Christian of Austria
METAL MASTERPIECES
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Helga Piaget
TROUBLED WATERS
VOICES OF INFLUENCE
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SP Hinduja Shanu (Hinduja Family)
The Hinduja family has earned a prominent place on both the Forbes World’s Billionaires list and the ranking of India’s Richest families. As a senior member of the Hinduja Group, Hinduja S.P. Shanu i...
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James Ratcliffe
Former chemical engineer James Ratcliffe is the founder, chairman and majority owner of chemical powerhouse Ineos Group. The London-based conglomerate produces everything from synthetic oils and plast...
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Stefano Pessina
Stefano Pessina heads the world's largest drugstore chain, Walgreens Boots Alliance. Pessina bought over 1,500 rival companies across Europe, merged his UniChem Group with Alliance Boots and took it p...
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Eyal Ofer
Ofer owns Global Holdings, an international real estate firm, and the Zodiac Group, a shipping company. In addition to the 150 vessels he owns under Zodiac, Ofer also owns a 5% stake in Royal Caribbea...
