Cover Star: Michael Keaton

This issue of The Rake is a bit like that poem by Mowbray Morris, which said “It lightens the years that are now, sometimes to think of the years ago.”

A hodgepodge of how the past inspires the present.

From taking a look back at Michael Keaton’s career, to the nowadays impossible derring-do of the land-speed-record hunters, watches of old, designers of legacy and people who have dedicated their lives to improve the human condition, or at least lifted our spirits.

Welcome to The Design Issue.

Founded in 2008, The Rake is the world’s preeminent publication dedicated to the education and empowerment of style. Recapturing the codes of classic men’s elegance, The Rake is inspired by icons such as Cary Grant, Gianni Agnelli, Sean Connery and their contemporary counterparts.

It provides incisive, in-depth commentary on menswear and the many other elements of gentlemanly living, from manners and ethics to art and design, travel, the intellectual and the philosophical, homes, modes of transport, entertainment, food and drink.