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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I don’t know why I do this to myself. Anyhoo, check out my latest find, a 19th century restored villa up for sale on the French riviera, which writer F. Scott Fitzgerald himself allegedly acquired for a summer, where [...]
Young people in the neighborhood had never known a time when the doors of the old Louxor Movie Palace were ever open. Barricaded behind wooden boards, possibly the oldest surviving movie palace in Paris was abandoned for more than 20 years, gathering dust and standing lifeless and ignored at a busy cross-section in Barbès, a [...]
More abandoned p0rn to tie you over this Monday afternoon, this time, Victorian and Art Deco swimming pools of England, photographed by London-based photographer, Gigi Cifali, for her ongoing a series Absence of Water. You can almost still hear the sound of splashing and the echo of voices… Pictured above: Soho Marshall Pool in London, opened 1931 [...]
When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a fairytale castle brought to life. But this is not a Disney set, this is the Neuschwanstein castle, a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace in Bavaria, Germany– the original Disney castle. Indeed, Neuschwanstein looks so much like a fairytale castle that Walt Disney himself was [...]
Does anyone else find fashion more special when it’s illustrated? I think it brings out that childish innocence of interest in fashion before we ever worried about what it might do for our figures. Lovingly scanned one by one from The Art of Vogue Covers by South African blogger MissMoss, these art deco Vogue illustrations [...]
Cuba; a tropical time machine, rich in nostalgia, full of sadness, always vibrant. I like contradictions and I know I would fall in love with Cuba. People have told me to forget it; the food is terrible, the street sellers are tough, but I’m still not deterred. For once in my life, I wouldn’t be [...]
If ever I had the choice of owning any two-wheeled mode of transport in the world, I’m pretty sure I would pick this one (if I could reach the handle bars). It’s a one-off custom art deco beauty originally built in 1936 by O. Ray Courtney, based on a 1930 KJ Henderson and is powered by [...]
A London friend emailed me an article this morning about tourists visiting the French capital, specifically Japanese, who fall prey to what is known as the ‘Paris syndrome’. Around a million Japanese travel here every year (yeesh), many expecting the fairytale vacation they once saw in a Woody Allen movie. But an average of up [...]
Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack
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What good is an iPhone if it can’t take you to Paris?! Or an iPad that can’t take you
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Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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