sdsdsdsdsdMonth: September 2016

Gold Standard: La Colombe D’Or

The Rake, Travel, La Colombe D'Or, Matt Hranek, Luxury, France

In 1920 after returning from fighting in WWI, Paul Roux, a local Provençal Farmer opened a small three-bedroom inn, a little place

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The Man With the Horn: Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Jazz, Rakish Musician

Miles Davis explicitly said he didn’t want to be considered a legend. The problem with that, twenty five years after his death,

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Artistic License: Adam Rogers

the rake, adam rogers, pocket guide, mens style, designer, vintage

Adam Rogers is, to put it mildly, a multi-faceted denizen of design. Having trained in bespoke tailoring at Central Saint Martins, Rogers

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In The Studio with Ugo Schildge

the rake, ugo schildge, artist, flora alexander ogilvy

“Being an artist for me is knowing how to bring an idea to life with both passion and precision,” affirmed the French

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Hemingway’s School of Hard Drinks

The Rake, Ernest Hemingway, 11

I first encountered the Hemingway Drinking Game during an undergraduate tutorial in one of the lesser ventilated study rooms of the English

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What To Buy This Week: Something for the Weekend

The Rake, Allan-Baudoin-belgian-loafers, what to buy, wishlist, gentlemen

This week we take on an autumnal weekend for the rake at leisure. Whether sipping frothy coffee in the Piazza Della Repubblica, enjoying a spot of shopping in Lower Manhattan

Last of the Breed: The 500th LaFerrari

The Rake, Ferrari, LaFerrari

The concept of ‘design’ is, of course, an infamously difficult thing to quantify and manifold definitions of what ‘good design’ constitutes have

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