Category: Stylish by Design

Classic American Style at its Best

Joseph Abboud’s Classic Tuxedo
The British have Savile Row, and Italians are well known for their fashion savor fair, and everything sartorial. And in America, we have some of the most trail blazing fashion designers. Joseph Abboud has long been recognized as having his own brand of classic style, and is by large a “style guardian”. In 1981, he began working along side the American Style Icon Ralph Lauren, and thus started his namesake label in 1986.

Written by Mark Scott
Joseph Abboud Super 120s Wool Tuxedo
photo via suitored.com

Joseph Abboud has furnished everyone from athletes, musicians and businessmen to everyday Men of Style (such as myself). His unique style is classic but still very relevant to American Fashion. In February 2013, I will look forward, once more, to the spin he puts on American Style during Fashion Week in New York!

photo via Joseph Abboud
photo via Joseph Abboud
photo via Joseph Abboud
photo via Joseph Abboud
Jospeh Abboud’s Runway Show/2013
photo via The Fine Young Gentleman
photo via Joseph Abboud
Cufflinks by Joseph Abboud
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Joseph Abboud’s Home Collection
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Joseph Abboud’s runway show/2012
photo via Fresher than Chris
Joseph Abboud, Spring 2013
photo via The Fine Young Gentleman
Fashion designer, Joseph Abboud

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Sitting Pretty!

Timeless Beauties

Back in October of last year, I published this piece on Stylish By Design, and from time to time, I found myself going back to it, not just for the obvious design genius of Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Thonet, and Le Corbusier (to name a few), but also to remind myself as to what a great chair should feel like. It does not matter what the chair looks like, it’s the way it makes you feel that is important.

This Michael Thonet’s Settee is quite at ease with both traditional, and modern interiors. The outline of this settee is simply beautiful. Bentwood is as modern then, as it is now.
The ULTIMATE in great design and comfort.
Eileen Gray Transat Chair
For a small and unobtrusive chair, the B-167-3 Lounge Chair by Pierre Paulin is unusually comfortable, not to mention inviting. The shape is much more functional than a casual inspection would suggest.
In contrast to Paulin’s chair, I find the Archair 12 by Poul Kjaerholm to be rather uncomfortable, as the back rung cuts painfully across the spine. But it is an absolute beauty. The chair is greatly influenced by Thonet’s bentwood forms, but it has it’s own and unique fresh take as a tubular steel.
No question, this chaise lounge by Le Corbusier is simply one of the classics for
complete, egocentric comfort.
The Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer was greatly influenced, believe it or not, by the colonial chairs of long ago. This is a welcoming and beautiful chair, both aesthetically and physcially satisfying.
T Chair by William Katavolos, Ross Litell, Douglas Kelly
In such a structure, this functional chair shows the results of imposing preconceived decisions on the logic of forms in combination
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