The guys from The Hill-Side, who make some incredible ties, handkerchiefs, and many more accessories, have started Hickoree’s Hard Goods. A mercantile of sorts with everything you could ever want…besides the dream girl, porsche, and stretch of land.
I’ll be posting some great articles from the vault up here as they come along, also check out [...]
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
Hickoree’s Hard Goods – Toiletries
Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Food & Drink, Literature, Music, Politics, Sport, Travel, tagged brooklyn, hickoree's hard goods, hill-side, usa on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Blind Five
Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Food & Drink, Literature, Music, Sport, Travel, tagged all plaid out, secret forts, the blind five on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I first moved to New York 8 months ago, one of the first guys I met and became good friends with was Max Wastler of All Plaid Out. Having similar interests in nearly everything including being menswear nerds to the point of creating a blog of all things, it wasn’t hard to see the [...]
A Guide in Gumption
Posted in Literature, Travel, tagged robert pirsig, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance on August 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A person filled with Gumption doesn’t sit around dissipitating and stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s Gumption.” – Robert Pirsig, Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Germano Facetti for Penguin Books
Posted in Art, Literature, tagged alan fletcher, germano facetti, penguin on August 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
While looking through the $2 books on the sidewalk of a hole in the wall book store I noticed an incredible cover, and what do you know? It’s Germano Facetti cover for Penguin Books from the 60’s next to an Alan Fletcher designed cover from the same era. Heaven!
Penguin Books has been one of the [...]
Artistic Printing & Gaslight Style- Beautiful Excess
Posted in Art, Film, Literature, tagged artistic printing, gaslight style, letterpress on August 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Artistic Printing and Gaslight Style are forms of letterpress print from decades ago that is widely acknowledged for having extreme Victorian ormanentation for logos to advertisements from the early 20th Century. A lot of these may look familiar. The morphine remedies, hotel correspondence stock, post cards, and business cards made up a great deal of [...]
The Designersaurus
Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Food & Drink, Literature, Music, Politics, Sport, Travel, tagged glenn kitson, rig-out on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Designersaurus
Glenn Kitson and Andy Bird, of The Rig-Out, are here with his new take on the blog community. After browsing the first couple of entries, it’s safe to say it is one of the more promising, stylish blogs I have seen in a while.
Pop-Up Flea
Posted in Art, Fashion, Film, Food & Drink, Literature, Music, Sport, Travel, tagged 3Sixteen, Aether, Alexander Olch, Alexander West, Aprix, Billykirk, cafe select, C’H'C’M, Gitman Brothers Vintage, Hattan, Mark McNairy, one trip pass, pop-up flea, tommy guns on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Attention all New Yorkers…
The Pop Up Flea, courtesy of A Continuous Lean and Urban Daddy, hits this weekend with designers, restauranteurs, and barbers including Billykirk, Mark McNairy, Hattan, Alexander West, One Trip Pass, Alexander Olch, Aether, Aprix, 3Sixteen, Gitman Brothers Vintage, C’H’C’M and many more. Food will be on offer from the fine folks at Cafe Select. Shaves, [...]
Opening for Zelig
Posted in Film, Literature, tagged Woody Allen, zelig on June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Andrew Jackson’s Inauguration
Posted in Art, Food & Drink, Literature, Politics, tagged andrew jackson, old hickory on June 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
After seeing Issac’s great portrait of Andrew Jackson at Simple Conniesseur, it reminded me of the massive amount of history instilled in me growing up on the man. I have always been thoroughly interested in history of all kinds, and as with any child going to grade school; state history was a big part of [...]
Trad Shop
Posted in Art, Fashion, Literature, Sport, Travel, tagged Brooks Brothers, Ivy League, J.Press, trad on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heavy Tweed Jacket, as most know by now is the go-to source for everything trad. You need a scan from a rare Brooks catalog from the 80’s? Maybe you need one from the ever-more rare Japanese books on Ivy campuses? Than look no further. Above is a great glimpse at an article featuring the New York [...]
