Nooshin: The Lady Tailor
The Arb’s Angela Clutton visits The Arb’s very own lady tailor, Nooshin of Savile Row, to explore the world of bespoke tailoring and dress design, and discovers, too late, that stripping off is entirely optional.
Browsing: The Lifestyle
While You Were Asleep
Miss York is back with her sharpened pencil, musing late at night about words in our lexicon suffering the lash of society’s truculent tongue. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there’s the rub…
Coquette at Kettner’s
Sophie indulges in David Carter’s Coquette; London’s most popular pampering event for ladies who cocktail. Dance the Charleston, glam up like a diva and learn how to kiss handsome bartenders…
Lovers of the Leaf
In the first of a series of articles on the gloriously eccentric pastime of selecting, storing, collecting and perhaps even smoking cigars, we take a look at how the landscape has changed of late for London’s lovers of the leaf…
Dirty Old Town
Volatile literary genius, feared poet, vitriolic satirist and legendary Delhi journalist, Rahnam Pachry, turns his acerbic wit and his poison-tipped fountain pen to the dirty old town of London.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Grooming
Etiquette expert, Parisienne and former model, Nathalie Findlay, presents The Arbuturian’s definitive guide to gentlemen’s grooming, top to toe. It’s all in the finishing touches…
Montblanc de la Culture
I think it was our intrepid editor-in-chief who coined the phrase ‘The pen is mightier…
Liberace’s Air
He was talking to Katharine when I entered the restaurant, in that gallant, paternal way some older men of a certain character adopt when speaking to the young. He was certainly a character, with his bear-like frame…
The Zealous Watchmaker
Angela Clutton meets Christopher Ward, a British watchmaker who is taking the fight for the luxury watch market to the mega brands in a quintessentially English way.
Quo
In this year’s first instalment of short fiction writing, Bridport Prize shortlisted author, Maddie York, weaves a darkly surreal tale about Scrabble, delusion, and a baby called Quo.
Don’t Mention the War!
German humour; an oxymoron or a misunderstanding of language and culture? Tom Garton discovers that perhaps the Germans do have a sense of humour after all. No really, they do…
Wanderland
As we move inexorably into spring, roving explorer Harry Chapman pens a fond farewell to the winter months and that bracing weather phenomenon that carries with its crystalline flakes the ability to invigorate the soul.