1. A Collection of Antique Hold-To-Light Postcards: something to look out for at your next flea market
Each of the cards have been intricately “carved” out and painted with bright colors allowing those areas to glow when held up to the light, the thicker parts of the paper don’t let any light through.
All of the cards pictured are from the early 1900’s, most likely between 1903 and 1910.
Found on Reddit.
2. This Art Nouveau Villa For Sale Next to Paris
Asking 1.43m euros. Located in Fontainbleau, built in 1906 by Jules Viatte, this villa served as his residence and workplace until his death. Found on Architecture de Collection.
3. A corner inside Lucian Freud’s studio, left untouched since his death in 2011
Phone numbers still scrawled across the walls. Scissors, once used to trim paintbrushes, remain wedged into layers of dried paint. Mountains of rags worn from years of wiping his brushes.
Found on Collectors Walls.
4. How an Artist Converted a 13,000 Sq Ft NYC Warehouse into his Home
5. Foot-Licking Demons & Other Strange Delights from a 1921 Persian Manuscript
Found on Open Culture.
6. Edward Hopper’s Sketches for “Nighthawks”
“How Edward Hopper Storyboarded ‘Nighthawks’” in 1942, article found on Art News.
7. The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum
Found on Wikipedia, located in Tennessee.
8. This is so fascinating to me: an Edwardian Era Scrapbook from Young Girl in New York
Most items appear from 1904-1906. Found at at a used book store and shared on Reddit.
9. A Forgotten Train Wagon Restaurant & Hotel in the Alps
The Wagristoratore, opened in 1930, was a project by Milan-born architect Piero Portaluppi. Located at a height of 2318 meters in an uncontaminated stretch of land on the border between Italy and Switzerland, the surreal building was made of two train wagons directly placed onto concrete pillars.
The “wagon-restaurant” and the “wagon-lit”, a place to sleep were both richly decorated and conceived for a luxurious stay, working as dependences to a nearby hotel.
After World War II, the building was forgotten and probably used as a refuge for people trying to escape to Switzerland and later destroyed.
Today, you can still find the train wagon’s pillars still standing.
Found on Socks Studio.
10. Swimming in Money with Scrooge McDuck: The Oil Paintings
I remember Scrooge McDuck as the character who took his nephews on adventurous treasure hunts around the world and then let them swim in his ‘money bin’ while he counted it. He seemed like a pretty fun uncle…
Carl Barks was the man behind the creation of “Scrooge McDuck,” the world’s richest duck, and the man who drew the comic book adventures of Donald Duck, his nephews, and Uncle Scrooge back in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Only 20 or so of his original oil paintings are set in the money bin and it is rare for one of them to be offered for sale. They have sold for upwards of $260K at auction.
Find more Carl Barks Scrooge McDuck nostalgia here.
11. Wonderland Inc, Kansas City, 1968 (under investigation)
In 1968, Wonderland Inc., of Kansas City, Missouri, was taken to court by the United States of America. The case was brought by the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. These images formed part of the case.
More found on Flashbak.
12. Opening of the new Villa Capri Restaurant In Hollywood
Diners included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jayne Mansfield.
Found on LIFE magazine.
13. That time Diane Keaton reposted something she found on 13 Things
For further context, these are high Heels Orthopedic Shoes. Companies in the late 1800s started offering relatively inexpensive “corrective” footwear. These shoes not only provided height to match the heavy dresses of the time but also aimed to improve a woman’s posture and, in some cases, reshape her foot entirely.
Rest in peace Diane Keaton – may you continue to be an inspiration to generations of women to come.
