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“What happened to all the Polymaths?’ Those men who excelled in many disciplines, multi-talented individuals. In modern times, this way of thinking is discouraged. People are not educated to be a jack of all trades. They work to be a businessman, or an engineer, or a musician. It is rare to find a man who is…
Welcome to ‘The Bookshelf’. Our new column where we ask journalists, actors, designers and esteemed others to tell us their five most loved and treasured books and why they adore them so. This week we welcome Monocle‘s Culture Editor Rob Bound to guide us through his selection. A Season With Verona- Tim Parks There are two…
Quite often at The Holborn we have a tendency to feature items that have just caught our eye, something that has gotten us excited over the course of a quick browse of a website or trying out such an item out the shopfloor. This is not the case with Cherchbi – a British manufacturer of fine…
Patrick Grant, who revived Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons and is the man behind British menswear label E Tautz, is a designer’s designer, and we are told that his appearances as a judge on the BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee have made him a housewives’ favourite. He is now taking on the challenge…
