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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty years? Which skills will go extinct when the last generations of craftsmen and artisans can’t pass on the legacy of their trade? Forbes recently reported that despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate, skilled trades top the list of [...]
What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators make a space their home, it changes the environment forever. The living space inevitably becomes a rich source of inspiration for the artist; from the furniture, the objects and books to the colour of the walls, floors and most importantly, the [...]
Image source How could anyone tire of this city? Is it even possible? When Paris is pissing you [...]
“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 [...]
This weekend I spent Friday night with le boyfriend doing what any normal girl likes to do: scoping out derelict buildings. We were having a drink on the Seine in the 13th arrondissement when he remembered there was an enormous old building in the neighborhood infamously occupied by squatters. Off we went. And there it [...]
I spent my Saturday afternoon, avoiding the Parisian summer crowds and tiptoeing along the train
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Tonight in Paris, tens of thousands of people dressed in white, will converge at a secret location,
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For many years, these bizarre buildings on the isolated southern tip of Marco Island in Cape
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Charming eccentric or tolerated local boogyman? The townspeople of Kyjov in Czech Republic could
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I finally watched Life of Pi last night and was pleasantly surprised to learn that the hero of the
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When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for my school musical. I was a very
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Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s
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It was an ambitious, otherwordly idea, dreamt up by American military physician, Dr. Bond, deemed
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In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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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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