![Edge Of Reason: The Spectacular Casa Brutale](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cbru_0_web-150x150.jpg)
The incredible supervillain-lairish Casa Brutale, at the edge of the Aegean sea — and perhaps the edge of reason. Created by the Open Platform For Architecture, the abode is alas just a concept. Suggested budget to actually build it is…
![Element Of Style: Ancesserie's Bow Tie Stationery](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/BlackTiePad-150x150.png)
Recently I received a note of introduction by a company called Ancesserie. That the note came electronically shoudn’t be seen as a self-contradiction. Ancesserie, you see, makes stationery on 19th-century letterpresses. Based in South Carolina, the company’s founding is pretty…
![The Great Indoors: Playboy Magazine And The Invention Of The Bachelor Pad](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Ext-62-150x150.jpg)
Today we have a guest post from James Kraus of Jet Age Media. * * * In it’s early decades, Playboy Magazine was a gateway to the good life. Like a worldly uncle or older brother, it dispensed a cornucopia…
![The Downton Abbey Mattress Collection](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/uktv-downton-abbey-lord-and-lady-grantham-150x150.jpg)
Last week the Kingsdown brand announced a forthcoming “Downton Abbey” mattress collection. That’s right, not sheets, but mattresses. Considering they can’t be seen, they sure as hell better feel special. Said the company in a release: This strategic partnership represents…
![Mr. Porter On Boathouse Row](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/353a3ad2-00a8-482c-8fd6-50c872ff710d-150x150.jpeg)
Recently Jack Carlson, author of “Rowing Blazers,” shared his favorite boathouse interiors with us. Even more recently — Friday night, to be exact — I had drinks with Carlson at my favorite New York interior, the Player’s Club, whose walls…
![Seersucker For The Home](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/seer1-150x150.jpg)
Today is National Seersucker Day, and here are some items for the home (preferably your second, and located near a body of water). Above, whale throw pillow, $60. Below, hammock by Houzz, $195: Shower curtain at JC Penney, $25: …
![Gentleman's Accessories Auction At Paddle8](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1432766341-qwghuzygerizy7saqyc8-xl-150x150.jpg)
If you’ve got a few thousand dollars of discretionary income lying about with nothing to burn it on, check out the gentleman’s accessories collection at the auction site Paddle8. There’s a 1928 “smoking compendium” (above). And a servant to hold…
![Classic Style](https://masculineinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ah-150x150.jpg)
Screen shot from “The Human Stain,” in which Anthony Hopkins plays a classics professor with an elegant home. Note pictures mounted to bookcase.