Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe on the startling discovery of a perfectly preserved belle epoque apartment in Paris. In 2010, auctioneer Maitre Olivier Choppin de Janvry discovered a 1900 Bonbonnière (a bijou apartment) in Paris at the Square La Bruyère. Under a thick layer of dust, he was entering a 140-metre square apartment untouched by human hand for… … Keep Reading
Gustav Temple meets a best selling novelist and an art forger to find out the difference between fake or fortune. When the subject of a blue plaque you have just seen outside a house in Saltdean answers the door, you are already questioning what is real and what is fake. For aren’t blue plaques usually… … Keep Reading
This year’s saunter sans purpose may start at the same place as before, yet it can never end up at the same place. This year’s Grand Flaneur Walk takes place on Sunday 11th May 2025, commencing beside the statue of Beau Brummell on Jermyn Street, London W1, at midday. This will be the fifth incarnation… … Keep Reading
To mark this year’s Day of the Dad, we are offering a free Chap tie or pocket square plus half price for a year’s subscription. This year, Father’s Day falls on 15th June in the United Kingdom, and we are making a generous offer to those who wish to reward their dear pater for his… … Keep Reading
I still find the Eurostar really rather wonderful. You get on a train at St. Pancras and alight some two hours later at Le Gare Du Nord into a different world, where the attitudes, tastes, smells, people and culture are as different from London as sand is to salt. Undeniably, it is quite an anomalous… … Keep Reading
From the eleventh floor balcony of a hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the horizon flashing with lightning, brassy wisps of Mariachi music wafting up from somewhere through the heat of the night, was the sense that we were definitely in Mexico. It had taken nearly 20 hours to reach this moment of Mexican awareness, though… … Keep Reading
On a recent trip to Rajasthan, I discovered that not only does India possess its famous wealth of history and architecture, but it is also one of the most natural habitats for the travelling Chap. My journey took me first to Delhi, only nine hours away by plane but, as soon as you land, the… … Keep Reading
The Chap’s Grand Silver Jubilee Ball was indeed a night of a thousand waistcoats. On Saturday 12th October 2024, three hundred immaculately dressed souls descended on Hamilton House in Balham, a region of the capital not generally known for decadent soirees. But this was a truly special night, for The Chap was celebrating 25 years…
Now that Goodwood Revival has swept its grounds for the year, where else is a chap or chapette to go in search of the vintage glamour of yesteryear? Where can a gentleman don his opera cape, top hat and walking cane, and a lady her finest party frock and feather boa, so they can mingle…
After a brief hiatus, welcome to the Summer/Autumn 24 edition of Britain’s favourite gentleman’s quarterly. After lying low for the summer of 2024, due to reasons mainly to do with technical webular matters since resolved, The Chap Magazine is back for the autumn with a spring in its step, vim in its tank and a…
New department to our online store collects the best of gentlemanly literature. Our webular emporium has benefitted from a new category of product, namely Chap Books. The shelves of this category are already filled with books we consider suitable reading material for Chaps and Chapettes, and more tomes are being added weekly. The range is…
