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!…
This week’s edition is dedicated to our readers in America. Happy 250, with love & courage from your friend in Paris. 1. One of America’s most recognisable corporate buildings is for sale Nearly three decades after it opened as the…
1. The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia Photographed by David Jácome The Cholita Climbers of Bolivia, or Las Cholitas Escaladoras Bolivianas, are a group of Indigenous, Aymara, women mountaineers who climb peaks in Latin America. They do not wear modern mountaineering clothing, preferring instead their traditional costumes including polleras, brightly colored,…
1. An Idea for Decorating your Bathroom “I’d like to share my grandma’s half bathroom. She calls it ‘the sitting room’ and she has been collecting little chairs for YEARS and adding them to the walls. Sometimes when I was…
1. Lovely letter writing prompts from a lovely stationary shop Here’s the shop, Assembly of Text in Vancouver. Found via Present & Correct. 2. A Museum to cross an ocean for The Museum of Innocence, created by Orhan Pamuk, is…
1. The weird but definitely not AI Designs of Stephanie Temma Hier Funnily enough, she’s only on Instagram. 2. The “little Scorpion of the French Riviera” wandered into my shop the other day and told me her story Interesting lady.…
1. The Crisp Shops of Madrid Spain, like the UK, has a big crisp culture, with fun regional differences in how they’re consumed. In Catalunya for example, you’ll often see crisps and berberechos (tinned cockles) topped with Salsa Espinaler during ‘L’hora del vermut’…
1. Crazy about these Mixed Media Collages Find the designer Anton Elfilter here. Found via Moss & Fog. 2. The Worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map Sidewalk Joy spots are free, curated public galleries, exchanges and displays. Installed in curb gardens, front…
1. “Frasurbane”: a popular 90s postmodern design aesthetic titled from the 1990s TV show ‘Frasier’ a style that draws from more wild postmodern design movements like Grunge graphic design (eg. David Carson), Memphis Milano & Deconstructivism, but filters them through…
1. Rarely seen photographs of Josephine Baker at the Ziegfeld Follies, 1936 By the middle of the 1930s Joséphine Baker was firmly established as one of France’s brightest stars, and she had high hopes of furthering the great success she’d…
