Articles

Philippe Petit

Career of Philippe Petit as a tight rope walker spans from Jerusalem to Tokyo, from Grand Central Station in New York to the Citadel of Vauban in Belgium. What he’s best known for is his high wire ...

Wild At Art

Enter Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, whose R20th Century is a Tribeca gallery in good standing. They’ve sold midcentury furniture since 1997, as tasteful as you’d like, but they have an ongoing f...

Surf Shapers

Bob Simmons – an airfcraft engineer – gave birth to the fastest and most maneuverable wave riding machine of the 50’s.

Casting A Shadow

Cocktails such as the Old Fashioned, Sidecar and Bobby Burns, which one can count on through the winter, don’t taste the same when the sun shines in the spring. 

No Sweat, No Tears

When you are finished in the gym or on the squash court, you don’t want to linger in the locker room. Some of us want to head to a bar where we can enjoy a beer to celebrate our virtue. To this end...

Divers Watches

The dive watch might just be the most universally appreciated category of wristwatch on earth, despite the obvious data that indicates so few wearers actually go diving.

Kevin Jorgeson

Professional climber Kevin Jorgeson has spent hundreds of spring and fall days on the vertical ramparts of 3,000 foot-high El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California.

Greg Hatton

Hatton’s work is a combination of furniture and sculpture, functionality and art which utilises locally sourced timber materials, often mill off cuts or felled noxious species.

Passport: Maine

Maine is the type of place that you want to tell people about, but at the same time it is a place that you don’t want everyone to know about for purely selfish reasons. 

Passport: Tokyo

Some orchestrated escapes to guide the adventurous yet discerning Gentleman on a journey through Tokyo.