1. “Après le bal” (After the ball) – a micro 19th century art genre of its own What makes it unusually genre-like is that it isn’t merely “a woman after a party.” Across different artists, the same little narrative machine…
1. Where & how NYC’s street signs are made Sturdy sheets of aluminum are stacked to nearly the ceiling inside this industrial shop where almost every New York City street sign is born. Even in a digital age, the Maspeth…
1. A pink 18th century bastide above Cassis waiting to be restored One can dream . Five bedrooms; 227 sqm; 1,779 sqm garden; €2.79M, found on The Spaces. 2. She painted her late father’s passport into a memory capsule “I…
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’…
