Inspiration

Now you know how Buckley developed his infamously gargantuan vocabulary. I’m sure he had an assistant to put the bookplates in all the books, though. The New York Times ran this photo with WFB’s obituary in 2008: And included this...

Whether fraternal club or personal dwelling, every masculine space ought to have a library. Or at least, like at MI HQ, piles of books strewn about the floor. And to help gently remind borrowers from whence the tome they are...

There are few more masculine decor schemes than the combination of wood, leather and moose heads — or anything else you can shoot. So in the spirit of the snowstorm that hit the eastern US, here’s a gallery of lodges....

Here are 23 items from this weekend’s Winter Antiques Show at the magnificent Park Avenue Armory. I’m guessing you’d need about $5 million to scoop them all up. The suit of armor alone was over $1 million.

If you’re in the Eastern United States, you’re already being pelted with snow and are bunkering down for tonight’s blizzard. To fuel your dreams, here are the glass igloos of the Finnish resort Kakslauttanen, where you can curl up and...

New from CB2, biker gang consisting of Wagner, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Tchaikovsky. From Brooklyn artist Jason Laurits, limited edition, $149. (Click here if headline reference is too obscure.)

In addition to “Mortdecai,” there’s another current movie worth mentioning. “The Loft” posits that when a bachelor pad is stripped of its function as a dwelling place and used solely as a venue for philandering, the result is the destruction of...

Today a film opens featuring handlebar mustaches, ascots, paisley dressing gowns, chesterfields, walking sticks and aristocrats reclining on chaise lounges in country estates. Whether the film turns out to be brilliant or awful, Johnny Depp good or bad, I suggest we all...

Tommy Hilfiger has a penthouse at The Plaza Hotel, which he has apparently been trying to get rid of for years. It certainly had a nice office, not to mention bedroom:   And then there’s the view: Tommy has been...

Last night the president delivered his State Of The Union speech. Sounds like the perfect excuse to examine the state of the Oval Office, by which I mean not the man in the chair, but the chair itself. The White...

The artist Josh Agle — better known as Shag, for the four letters connecting his first and last name — first gained a following in the ’90s when a lot of other retro things were being rediscovered, such as lounge...

Teeter-tottering book stacks. A trophy. Simple furniture. Not so different from any other man’s office. Except that this man keeps a portrait of Gandi for inspiration. Here’s the MLK Memorial Library in Washington, designed by Mies van der Rohe: It...