Inspiration

The new spring catalog from Bloomingdales features a chic and polished masculine bedroom (save, perhaps, for the lavender sheets and pillows). The items are from Ralph Lauren and are a Bloomie’s exclusive called Grey Haberdashery. The name alone should appeal...

After posting about the Plaza Hotel’s Fitzgerald suite a couple of weeks ago, I decided to rewatch the Baz Luhrmann Gatsby adaptation. I’d only seen it once and didn’t remember much, which is never a good sign. I’d planned to...

The third and last in a series of aviation-themed posts brings us to the point when things go too far and you get lost in the design equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. I’m speaking, of course, about the extraordinary eyesore...

Following up our last post about Harrison Ford’s plane accident (and the interiors of his iconic role as Indiana Jones), here’s a roundup of sleek and silvery airplane decor pieces for your desk, shelf or side table. They might even...

When I was planning this site, the home of the character Indiana Jones was one of the first ideas for a post that I wrote down. So when I heard the news yesterday evening that Harrison Ford was injured in...

Smoking has long provided men in polite society to excuse themselves and be alone. Of course this also gave women the chance to be alone, but it was the men who were discussing — or at least in control of...

Here’s a piece I wrote a couple of years ago for Billionaire.com (always loved the in-your-faceness of the site’s name). The Plaza still offers the Fitzgerald suite, which goes for $1,595 per night. * * * Plaza Hotel, New York:...

 There’s plenty of stylish shaving equipment out there, but you still need a sink to complete the morning ritual. Enter Devon & Devon, whose basins and bathroom vanities have such appropriate names as Ascot, Empire, Jetset, Oxford and Bentley, any...

These photos are from the Harvard library‘s collection of images and are circa 1899. Tradition is supplied by the furniture, wallpaper, paintings, etc., and youth is supplied by the timely ephemera tacked alongside. I’ll leave you with a kicker: In...

When I moved to New York, Georgina Kelman was one of the first to greet me upon arrival. She and I had corresponded in regards to Dandyism.net, as she has a certain fondness for dandies, beaux, lions and wits of...

By the time I graduated from high school, most of my life’s leitmotifs were already established. I’d discovered jazz and the Great American Songbook and had seen Mel Torme and George Shearing in concert. I’d also developed a fancy for...

Today is the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, and in the spirit of things I’ve compiled a gallery of Ralph Lauren Home images that all have one thing in common: blue and white porcelain with mostly Chinese...