Hi, I'm Kirby Allison,
and here at The Hanger Project,
we love to help the well-dressed
take care of the wardrobes.
You know, so many people have asked
me about the things in my office
and behind my desk that I thought
"you know why don't we just go ahead
and film an office tour".
If you have any questions
or comments during this video,
please feel free to ask them in the comments section
below.
I enjoy getting back to all your questions
personally.
This is not just our set
but it's my working office where all
of our company's business begins.
This is my sitting desk where I do
all of my reading,
I read reports,
work on my laptop,
but I also have a standing desk in the corner
where I can stand up stretch my legs
and do work on another computer.
So I find that these items just create
an environment that I enjoy being in
which just helps me be more productive
and relaxed while I'm here at the office.
Many of you have noticed
and asked about the Goyard trunk.
I keep on the corner of my credenza
and it's actually not a Goyard
trunk, it's the Goyard brand book.
Back in 2012,
Goyard released what
they called their brand book
and it was this incredible book printed
on paper that they had custom made
which is the same material they used
to line the canvas
and it told the entire history
of not just the House of Goyard
but really the golden age of
luxury travel,
whenever people were using trunks
to travel on horse drawn carriages
all the way through steam liners
which is really whenever that golden
age ended.
So my wife and I acquired
one of the copies of this book,
it's limited to a series of
233 copies,
which corresponds to the address of Goyard
233 Rue Saint Honore.
And we had our book numbered
222 because
it corresponds to my wife's birthday,
February 22nd.
We had it made in
what is the most traditional,
historically,
of the Goyard finishes which is the black
canvas gold hardware
with the brown leather trim.
And what I like about this is you can't find
any trunks from Goyard in this size
that have the beechwood slats
on the top which is
again, the most historically accurate
of how a trunk would have been built.
Inside, you have this
incredible book which you can pull out
and read.
Solid French, but they have the English translation,
and I absolutely love just keeping this here
my office.
And here behind my desk,
you can see I've recently changed my artwork
to have original copies
of the Spy Lithographs from
the late 19th century
and early 20th century.
Now these are original prints taken
from old issues of Vanity
Fair.
Not only do they reference the golden age
of sartorial excellence
and the gentleman's class
but they also remind me of just
being at my club in London
where we have many of the original sketches
hanging throughout the hallways.
These traditional lithographs
are very similar to the ones that you would find
in a steakhouse in London
and even here in the United States for that matter.
I've always admired the Spy Lithographs
and wanted to have a set for my office.
You can find more information about the particular
shot in the description of this video.
Next, on the other side of my desk,
you can see I have an espresso machine
which allows me a quick espresso
if I need something after lunch,
and then I've got several
of some of my favorite books that have been
particularly instrumental in my sartorial
growth.
We sell many of these books on The
Hanger Project just because I feel that are so important.
All of the copies I have here
are personally autographed copies
by the author.
As many of you know I have three
young growing children
and a beautiful family,
and so it goes without saying
that of course I like to surround myself
with photographs of my family here in my office.
So here on top of my humidor,
I have several photographs of my family
that are particularly special to me.
And lastly, underneath my picture frames
in the corner of my office,
is probably one of the more discreet
subtle elements
but that is certainly one of the most personally
special to me,
and that is a humidor that I use
to store and age all of my
cigars.
Inside,
I have boxes of
some of my favorite Bolivars
and Upmanns
and other Cuban cigars that
I've been collecting over the years
and aging in this temperature-controlled
and humidity-controlled humidor.
And so many of the cigars in here,
you know, I've been aging for five,
six, seven years
and I feel like just like
with wine,
if you can age a cigar,
it only becomes more mellow
and more complex over
the years.
And so it's been something I've really enjoyed doing.
One of the things you may not be able to see in my
office is that I actually have a smoke filtration
system,
and so that at night you know when all
my employees have left,
I can sit in my office,
light a cigar,
and do a little bit of work here at my desk
and maybe even have a nice small glass
of scotch that you can
see I also have on top of the humidor behind
my frames.
And then also on top of my humidor,
is a bottle of Dunhillion
23 Year Old single malt scotch.
Now this is a very special bottle
that was given to me as a gift from a friend that
works at Dunhill,
and it's a scotch that they
have bottled exclusively
for many of their private clients.
And of course if I'm drinking scotch,
I want to do it out of a proper cut crystal
highball, and so I have some of
my grandmother's patterned
crystal here from Waterford.
I enjoyed sharing my office
with you and I hope you did too.
If you're ever in the Dallas area,
look us up and maybe you can come by
for one of our shoeshine meet ups,
a glass of scotch,
or maybe even a cigar.
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I'm Kirby Allison
and here at The Hanger Project,
we love to help the well-dressed take care
of their wardrobes.
Thanks for joining us.