1. Rococo and Baroque Pools
Prompts by @tomislavmarcijus & @marcijusaivision (Midjourney V6 + Magnific AI)
2. Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts
The new book by Joshua Charow is available here.
3. Antique Ribbon Swatches
Browse this 19th century book in the Winterthur library archives and this one from the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition.
4. Just the weirdest and most wonderful slippers ever
From Killer Slippers and How to Make Them, Nick Godlee, this edition is from 1997. Found on Lookbooks.
5. Fascist Italy’s Cinemobile
During the Fascist regime, the power of media was already well-known. To bring the propaganda all over Italy, a series of trucks were set up with a projector system and a structure to fix a screen right in front of the vehicle. A simple and practical way to have a moving cinema — called “cinemobile” — able to travel to around small towns and villages.
This unit, one of the very few existing, was built on an old Fiat 521 chassis by Carrozzeria Fissore, and was even brought to Eritrea, in the Italian colonies of that time, were it was found many years later. Its original movie projector is still in place and still works after a careful restoration.
Found on Lo Presto.
6. The Fictional Brands archive: a growing collection of trademarks/brands from film & tv
Check it out here. Found via Present & Correct.
7. “Don’t leave the gas stove unattended”. A Soviet wall mosaic.
Found on Tumblr.
8. Explore Google’s AI-driven Instrument Playground
9. A company that can make a mini model of your home or business
10. The Pleasure-Tower, a concept for the 1937 Paris World Fair
Phare du Monde (“Lighthouse of the world”), advertised as a “Pleasure Tower Half Mile High” was conceived as a spiralling concrete parking garage for 500 cars, with a restaurant at the top. It would have been 2,300 feet tall, dwarfing the Eiffel Tower nearby, designed by Eugène Freyssinet (French, 1879-1962). The costs were estimated to have been $2.5 million at the time. it was never built.
Found on Wikipedia.
11. The Hottest Restaurant in France Is an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
Les Grands Buffets features a seven-tiered lobster tower, a chocolate fountain, and only what it considers traditional French food. Gourmands are willing to wait months for a table.
Full article on The New Yorker.
12. Victorian stair dust corners
Flexible, triangle-shape pieces of brass or nickel that keep dust from accumulating in stair corners. They were introduced near the end of the 19th century as a way to simplify sweeping. Clever Victorians.
You can get yourself some here.
13. Some of these may hit the spot
Found on X. From The Everyday Hero Manifesto by Robin Sharma.
