Scott Griffiths
CEO - 18/8 Fine Men's Salons
Professor - Grazadio School of Business and Management -
Pepperdine University
The University of California Irvine - Chief Executive Roundtable
Member - Luxury Council / Board - The Surf Heritage Foundation
If you believe as I do that life is something special and becomes more special when we squeeze as much nectar from it as possible…then this site is for you.
If you know that to be curious is to be interested, and to be interested is to be interesting; and if you believe that education comes from books and your experiences... then this site is for you.
If you enjoy the arts, cooking, and excellent foods; if you appreciate a handmade super-180 suit, a fine 25 year old Macallan’s with a vintage Cohiba; if you travel to other countries to learn their languages and cultures; and if you believe that business is what you create and build, not just what you manage…then this site is for you.
Along with my team and our readers, I will be posting interesting, intriguing, and useful articles on art, wine, spirits, travel, restaurants, and grooming, along with great recipes for guys and features exploring the subject of renaissance men. This site is for you as interesting and intriguing men…and men on the path to becoming more interesting and intriguing...
In our newest column, Alexa will be offering the advice you need to become an 18/8 man; that man who is well-versed and cultured, who knows how to impress and captivate a smart woman, and who wants to be the best that he can be.
At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his family rented a house and two acres from a local landowner. The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny. There was a barn that doubled as a painting studio, orchards and a small garden. The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered many suitable motifs for Monet’s work. Giverny is the spot where Monet painted his famous paintings of the water lilies.
The water lily series are extraordinary. Large canvases, beautiful, soulful, depths, layers of paint. Music on canvas. If you listen very closely to these paintings, you can hear God whispering…”Life is Wonderful.”
A couple of photos from our backyard. Loretta, my wife, and full time gardener (when she is not cooking), has worked over the years to cultivate our pond, with lilies, ferns and waterfall. Call it ‘Giverny-lite’. Sitting outside with a book on a warm spring day, a slight ocean breeze, Campari and soda with lemon…nothing could be finer.
The photo with the plants and CD’s is our vegetable garden. This is our second season of planting. We’ll have a wonderful crop of a variety of tomatoes, Japanese cucumbers, zucchini, jalapeno peppers, Japanese eggplant, and of course…fresh spices. So why all the CD’s? Well, we have a problem with the birds in the area, particularly the crows, wanting to enjoy our crop before we do. CD’s reflect light that frustrates the birds and sends them flying in the opposite direction. I like to call it ‘Beethoven for the Birds.”o
