 What's up guys? I'm Brian Sakawa. You're watching He Spoke Style and welcome to the studio today I am going to be taking you on a studio tour, but not just any studio tour This is a studio tour in 360 degrees now I've been wanting to show you guys the space that we create all the content where I spend a lot of my time Working during the day and also this man cave that my wife allowed me to have in the basement of our house So before we get to any of that cool stuff We're just going to start off with some of the more boring things like for example This is where the steamer lives behind the door and Right over here Is a small bathroom that we keep stocked with some very stylish reading material On the wall have a nice picture of Kerry Grant right here and on the other side of the door is a photo of Fred Astaire Now this right here is the utility closet for the entire house but it is also the storage area for a lot of the gear that we have that we're not using at the moment and Also a lot of the packing material for the He Spoke Style shop now on the floor You can see that I have photos here and actually there are photos all over the floor everywhere I just don't have enough wall space for the photos I have so they live on the floor now You might be asking yourself what this big piece of equipment is here This is actually some of the gear that we are going to be using for the live show It's that's what it takes to do the live the way we want to do it now over here I want to point out a couple of things this little piece right here is by Adam Moore Who's a fantastic watch photographer? I have a letter here from Bill Clinton that he wrote me in 1996 my father suggested that I Write to Bill Clinton and offer him a saxophone lesson and although he did not take me up on the saxophone lesson He did send me that very nice letter, which I still have this humongous boat came from my friend Ken's menswear shop He had the best menswear shop in Baltimore and he retired about a couple years ago And he got rid of a lot of the a lot of the cool things that he had in the shop And this was one of them including all of the photos That I've showed you so far came from his shop as well, but I really like this boat So now it lives here. So let's check it out over here All right So this area should look very familiar if you have followed on Instagram for a while and saw it remember photos of the old studio Or have seen the studio tour that we did on the website just with photos So we basically just transplanted the old studio and put it right here. We really like to set up So one thing that's been upgraded is the shelving here now in the old studio We had kind of flimsy rubber-made shelves, but because this is going to be more permanent I upgraded to a nice shelving from the container store on the shelves. We have some great menswear books lots of watch catalogs Cigar boxes up at the top you can see Another photo of Kerry Grant. We got Steve McQueen there One of the earliest photos that we took when we started he spoke style a nice vintage shave soap Advertisement John Coltrane here one of my earliest saxophone heroes or one of my saxophone heroes Then this great quote from Walter Lange from Lange Hensuna who says there's something one should expect Not only of a watch but also of oneself to never stand still. I really like that quote One other thing I want to point out on the top of the shelf is this sign right here when we had the old studio This was the sign that we had outside so this is where I relax and Just when I need to kind of clear my head I'll sit here. You know if we're just going to hang out. This is where we go on the coffee table some choice books right here and Of course my Leica camera. So let's go over here now Now you can see on that side of the bookshelf and this side of the bookshelf It's book-ended by two prints by my friend tug rice. They're beautiful Dehumidifier it is the basement. We have a wet bar here a wine fridge espresso machine Water cooler. This is where we have all the conversations and Right here is a beautiful bar called the corridor bar by BDI furniture. So let me show you this real quick I have some of my favorite bottles in here some of my favorite Cocktail books well up here. We have the Waldorf Astoria cocktail book Playboy's host and bar book death and co New York Times book of cocktails the PDT cocktail book and the indispensable vintage spirits and forgotten cocktails Now I just want to point this shaker out here You know, I'm a fan of the thin man movies and in the beginning of the third thin man Which is called another thin man this shaker features pretty prominently All right Obviously right here is my Eames chair, which is a place. I really like to relax So let's go over here and take a look at this area So over here is where we keep all of the stock for the he spoke style shop. It's a very small operation So, you know, it is very mom-and-pop. So we keep everything right there I have this is from a trip that we did with BMW a number of years ago When we got off the plane they had the BMW sign with our name underneath So I wanted to keep that this is a table where everything gets packed on and I have a nice watch winder right here That I'm going to be doing review of very soon So let's go over to this area All right, so this area is going to look very familiar to all of you This is where we record all of the outfit videos. Obviously when we're shooting we take the Clothing rack here and roll it back over there where the mannequin is One of the challenges that we really faced when we moved into this space is that the old studio had a lot of natural light It was very beautiful to shoot in but as you can see above the bookshelf there and Right over here. We just have these two little windows It is the basement and those windows are actually Under the deck so there is like no natural light that comes in here So it was a little bit of a challenge, but we have these two big light panels here, which when I turn them on you can see that There is tons of light it looks very natural and it's very good for video shooting So we're very happy that we figured that out and we just have to bounce it off the ceiling which is pretty neat So final stop right over here So this area is going to look very familiar to you As well, this is my desk and this is where I record Most of the talking portions of the videos that we do right here Now I just want to point out a couple things over here We have a nice photo of Nick and Nora and Asta on the wall are some of the favorite Our favorite photos that we've ever made. This is a campaign that we did for Dom Perignon This photo is one from the BMW trip that we did a number of years ago with my friend John Paolo Alliata behind me nice picture of Clark Gable on The bookshelf here. I just want to point out right here is an almost complete Collection of the rake magazines now. There are some that aren't available. So I will always have those holes in my collection but Yeah, so that is the studio. It's where we make all the content It's where I spend a lot of my time working and also just hanging out I'm glad to have you guys along for the ride today I hope you enjoyed the 360 format leave a comment down below Let me know what you thought if you liked this video give it a thumbs up hit that subscribe button and until next time Thanks for watching and stay tailored