Let us rewind to the sizzling summers of 1936 and ‘37 to holiday on the French Riviera with Pablo Picasso and his international ensemble of friends at the Hotel Vaste Horizon, a modest boarding house nestled in the old town…
It all started with this those three girls on a rock in 1922, putting my beach snaps to shame. Why is it, that with all the technology we have at our disposal to document every moment of our holidays, most…
1. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake I had a look and you can rent them on Airbnb too. There’s a cluster of lakes all near Amsterdam or Utrecht with the skinny islands!…
In the mood for something cozy for fall in Paris? Think quaint bee houses in the Luxembourg Gardens, or a stroll through Paris’ accidental gingerbread house street. Think “cottagecore”. Fun fact: 31% of France is actually covered by forests, and…
1. These incredibly vibrant portraits of 1930s High Society by Madame Yevonde A forgotten master of her trade: Yevonde Philone Middleton (née Cumbers; 5 January 1893, Streatham – 22 December 1975, London), English photographer, a pioneer in the use of…
In Physiopolis, life was better in the buff. Or at least in a bikini, which was as close as one could legally get to public nudity in 1930s Paris. It was here, on an isolated sun-baked island on the Seine,…
I just spent the morning finding out everything I can on the Bohemian Grove. For two weeks every summer, the 2,700 acre secured private camp in the Ancient Redwood Forest of Northern California, plays host to some of the most powerful men…
Peaches grown right here in Paris? Believe it or not, centuries ago, Paris became home to a thriving peach farming industry that produced up to 17 million fruits a year– and even today, a little-known community of cultivators are still…
This is a different kind of story about Versailles; one that they only dared whisper about in the palace’s gilded halls. It’s the little-known story of a witch hunt that unfolded in secrecy within the French royal court, eclipsed in…
I’ve been yearning to get back across the pond for a good ol’ dose of “weird America”, but I tend to forget that my own country has some pretty odd, quirky and wonderfully nostalgic sights to see when you venture…
Let us take a look inside the classical grandeur and neo-romanticism that flows through the oeuvre of Emilio Terry. A maximalist from the school of more is most definitely more; Terry was an artist, architect, interior decorator, and darling of…
When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill was forced to close her Parisian gallery and go into hiding during the Occupation of France, she had already helped build the careers of artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Diego…
