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Cabinet of Chic Curiosities
October 22, 2018

You’re invited to a Messy Nessy Manhattan Tea Party

Save the date! You’re invited to the MessyNessy Manhattan Tea Party fit for a Mad Hatter. Mark you calendar to meet us at a secret location on October 28th, 2018 in New York City. Yours truly (that’s me Nessy) will be your host for the afternoon gathering, a chance to bring together our unusual tribe in a beautiful…
October 19, 2018

5 Little-Known Chateaux to Visit Near Paris this Fall

Ti’s the season for chateaux hunting! The summer crowds have gone and the weekends are ripe for exploring French history and horticulture as the Autumn leaves crunch beneath your feet. Of course, you won’t find us fighting our way through the selfie sticks at Versailles, and I thought we should round up a few of…
October 18, 2018

Midnight Movie of the Month: A Forgotten “Rocky Horror” Sister Film

What’s your favourite midnight movie? That one totally weird film you tell your friends about at parties, a vintage masterpiece that slipped through the cracks of mainstream culture, because it was just too strange to find a traditional audience, and instead found an unlikely cult following elsewhere. We’ve discovered a midnight movie that’s slipped under…
October 17, 2018

Painting the Apocalypse

Wow, where is that? I thought leaning in closer to my screen, squinting at the ghostly concrete towers. It wasn’t until I actually saved the image to my computer and put it through Google reverse image search, that I actually realised, I wasn’t looking at a photograph. This is the work of Simon Stålenhag– and if you’ve…
October 16, 2018

Paris Has a Brutal(ist) Side

Love it or hate it, brutalist architecture has an unavoidable presence in every major metropolis– even Paris. In fact, the French capital is something of a haven for futurist concrete architecture. Brutalist boomed here during the 60s and 70s in response to Modernism’s utopian vision, and after Haussmann, came superstar architects like Le Corbusier and an…
October 16, 2018

Vintage Japanese Advertising Could Sell Us Anything

The foamiest men’s shampoo to make bath-time oodles more fun? The latest must-have make-up for your back? Whatever they were selling, we would’ve been buying. If you were in post-WWII Japan, your eyeballs had the luck of watching the advertising world grow brighter, hipper, and (especially in the ’80s) weirder. From the surreal visuals and zany…
October 15, 2018

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCXVIII)

1. A Time Capsule Airbnb Apartment in New York City In my arduous search to find accommodation for my upcoming stay in New York, I came across one of the city’s more unique and affordable options. You might have heard of the venerable Ear Inn, the grandfather of New York’s grand old saloons…. The upstairs apartment has…
October 12, 2018

Trolling Nazis (and the world) with Forged Art

The accepted number of authenticated Vermeer paintings today is 34, but that number became mysteriously higher during World War II. Hermann Göring himself, a leader of the Nazi party and notorious art looter, traded 137 of his prized stolen paintings for a newly-discovered Vermeer, one of several 17th century works that had suddenly emerged in…
October 11, 2018

The Music Your Plants Are Making in Secret

Think twice the next time you pluck a daisy from the sidewalk, because that flower may actually be ‘screaming’ in a language you don’t understand— or at least, not yet. Today, we’re cracking the code of the fascinating world of plant sentience, a.k.a., the secret way in which everything from your  Ikea houseplant to a…
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