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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative French attractions to see… La Maison Picassiete- “The House of the Plate Stealer” Built entirely by one man, it took Raymonde Isidore more than 25 years to complete his impressive Maison Picassiette. In 1936, the middle-aged Frenchman began covering his house located [...]
“Atelier Nο5″ This is the beautifully bohemian (and slightly mad) small world of French artist Ronan-Jim Sevellec. At 80 years of age, his most recent exposition was in 2012 and saw his boxes of tiny artist’s workshops and old antique rooms displayed in various eccentric and romantic locations around Paris. Ronan spent much of his [...]
The Brimfield Flea Market was founded in 1959 in Brimfield Massachusetts and has grown to become one of the largest flea markets in the world. Three times a year, the population of Brimfield swells from 3,000 to a quarter million, when treasure hunters flock to the fair in search of vintage Americana. One dealer sums [...]
They say the name ‘flea market’ first originated from the legendary Paris antiques market of St. Ouen, when an unknown bargain hunter in the 1880s looked down from nearby fortifications, observed junk dealers selling their scrap and allegedly exclaimed, “My word, but it’s a market of fleas!” In reality, it is anything but. On my [...]
Browsing ‘Authentic-As-It-Gets’ Vintage at the Marché aux Puces in Paris, MessyNessy Gets Trigger Happy with the Hipstamatic Lens How to get there: Take the metro line 4 to the last station, Porte de Clignancourt. Don’t be alarmed by the neighbourhood when you emerge from the station, you’re in the right place. As a general rule [...]
You might want to check the attic to make sure you don’t have any ceramic vases lying around that could be worth oh say, £51 million. This is the price that a vase from 18th century China fetched for after an unsuspecting brother and sister decided to hawk it at an auction in west [...]
It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
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The Ritz Hotel in Paris is arguably a museum in itself with all the clandestine history that went
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“Atelier Nο5″ This is the beautifully bohemian (and slightly mad) small world of
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Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal
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Here on MessyNessyChic, we’ve seen quite a few obsolete buildings given new life through
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As a former Londoner, born & raised, who thought she knew everything there was to know about
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They say the name ‘flea market’ first originated from the legendary Paris antiques
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Okay, okay so maybe Europe isn’t that financially down in the dumps that we need to start
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Paris and London: two indisputable capitals of cool. So why not make the connection between them be
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Last night I logged onto my Facebook and saw my newsfeed overwhelmed with status updates of
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The Literati: A Tale of Three Cities When I need my fix of Britishness in Paris, I don’t look
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