Category Archives: Dandies
Secret Satan, 2022
You know what to expect by now, surely? Well, expect even more of it: this is our biggest year-end book selection yet.
Merely real
Count Robert de Montesquiou, poet, dandy, aesthete, on the 100th anniversary of his death
Merely real
Count Robert de Montesquiou, poet, dandy, aesthete, on the 100th anniversary of his death
21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.
Secret Satan, 2020
Books to remember from a year you probably want to forget
Secret Satan book list
More books than you can deal with, frankly.
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
A dandy in aspic
Monsieur de Bougrelon covers the waterfront in Jean Lorrain’s singular, intoxicating novella
A dandy in aspic
Monsieur de Bougrelon covers the waterfront in Jean Lorrain’s singular, intoxicating novella
Places: Muskauer Park
A visit to the estate of Romantic-era polymath Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
15 books for 2015
Bricktop, Baron Corvo and Bertolt Brecht join a cast of…oh, about two dozen
Dress-down Friday: Beau Brummell
A rucking good time with the ultimate dandy…
Unknown | The Dandy’s Perambulations
The dandies presented in this charmingly illustrated, uncredited children’s book are bumbling, anxious and coddled.
Unknown | The Dandy’s Perambulations
The dandies presented in this charmingly illustrated, uncredited children’s book are bumbling, anxious and coddled.
Dress-down Friday: Gabriele d’Annunzio
Paradoxically, the excess d’Annunzio exhibited in most fields of activity – war, nationalism, seduction, decoration, bravado – issued from a compact package, adorned with restraint.
Dress-down Friday: Gabriele d’Annunzio
Paradoxically, the excess d’Annunzio exhibited in most fields of activity – war, nationalism, seduction, decoration, bravado – issued from a compact package, adorned with restraint.
Pearls: Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly
JABA breaks it down
Pearls: Oscar A. H. Schmitz
Have hope (and stiff cuffs…)
D’Orsay the artist
Comte d’Orsay combined physical beauty, sparkling wit, the magnetic amour-propre of the dandy as well as a dangerous whiff of Napoleonic adventure and a pre-Revolutionary title, both bequeathed by his general father. It was a heady brew and society fell at his exquisitely-shod feet.
D’Orsay the artist
Comte d’Orsay combined physical beauty, sparkling wit, the magnetic amour-propre of the dandy as well as a dangerous whiff of Napoleonic adventure and a pre-Revolutionary title, both bequeathed by his general father. It was a heady brew and society fell at his exquisitely-shod feet.
Strange Flowers guide to London: part 3
The choice of blue plaque honourees is leadenly conservative and sometimes bafflingly perverse, celebrating lesser colonial administrators known only to their mothers. Or it may be that current residents would rather not have their homes associated with drunks, deviants and diabolists.
Strange Flowers guide to London: part 3
The choice of blue plaque honourees is leadenly conservative and sometimes bafflingly perverse, celebrating lesser colonial administrators known only to their mothers. Or it may be that current residents would rather not have their homes associated with drunks, deviants and diabolists.
Strange Flowers guide to London: part 2
Fitzrovia was a stone’s throw from Bloomsbury but a world away in temperament. According to the Times Literary Supplement, Fitzrovia was “a world of outsiders, down-and-outs, drunks, sensualists, homosexuals and eccentrics”. In short, the spiritual home of Strange Flowers.
Strange Flowers guide to London: part 2
Fitzrovia was a stone’s throw from Bloomsbury but a world away in temperament. According to the Times Literary Supplement, Fitzrovia was “a world of outsiders, down-and-outs, drunks, sensualists, homosexuals and eccentrics”. In short, the spiritual home of Strange Flowers.
Prince of tides
Although better known in his lifetime as a writer and adventurer, Pückler-Muskau saw the Saxon park as his greatest monument. It was an expression of his lifetime passion for landscape gardening, into which he poured his entire fortune.
Prince of tides
Although better known in his lifetime as a writer and adventurer, Pückler-Muskau saw the Saxon park as his greatest monument. It was an expression of his lifetime passion for landscape gardening, into which he poured his entire fortune.
A German miscellany
The documentary just shown on German TV about Weimar Berlin included Lotte Lenya singing a mesmerising “Seeräuber Jenny” and a rare glimpse of Valeska Gert’s infamous grotesque dances.
A German miscellany
The documentary just shown on German TV about Weimar Berlin included Lotte Lenya singing a mesmerising “Seeräuber Jenny” and a rare glimpse of Valeska Gert’s infamous grotesque dances.
Dress-down Friday: Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly
There are few names as evocative as Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly – I feel 12% more sophisticated just typing it out. One of those names like Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam which seem to exist in their own perfumed cloud of posh, too archaic, too evanescent for an industrialised world.
Dress-down Friday: Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly
There are few names as evocative as Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly – I feel 12% more sophisticated just typing it out. One of those names like Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam which seem to exist in their own perfumed cloud of posh, too archaic, too evanescent for an industrialised world.
Strange Flowers 