One of the great pleasures of LA life is driving around looking at the fabulous houses which were part of the Case Study House programme, after World War II. A far cry from the hideous McMansions that are a plague upon canyons from east to west, many of these sleek, elegant, modest homes are […]

Golfers enjoy the position of being the most elegantly dressed of sportsmen, just edging ahead in recent years over tennis pros, largely because of the gaudy Spanish outfits of Rafael Nadal. They retain an old-fashioned charm, a pressed and prim professionalism - always unruffled. Gentry has written before about the cool cut […]

The age of exploration may be long gone, with every inch of the world scrubbed clean by sat-nav, but we now find ourselves in the age of re-discovery. There are an amazing array of discarded architectural marvels going to waste - ready to be uncovered by the curious eye - left behind by the world, […]

There are a fine range of bags available to the gent. There are plenty of fashions to choose from and identify with; the swept back Italian leather satchel, the hip-to-be-square soho record bag, the modest backpack, the continental, vintage strapless clutch, even the tried and tested pomp of the leather legal brief. But now, […]

Most footballers might be justifiably written off as knuckle-dragging, groupie-banging perma-adolescents, but there are a few, albeit a very few, who think on their feet, engage with the world around them and, for better or worse, use their unique position to express a range of political views.