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…
1. The other Madame X Portraits When Madame X was shown at the Salon of 1884 it became instantly a salacious painting and a scandal in French society as a result of its sexual suggestiveness. The painting’s subject, socialite, Madame…
1. This incredible artist chess set By Artist Rachel Whiteread. Sold at Christie’s in 2019 for 10,000 GBP. 2. This archive of vintage lighters (For Sale) Shop the archive here. Found via Present & Correct. 3. A box of tortoiseshell…
1. A mid-19th-century French watch bottle (circa 1850) Represents a luxurious, functional accessory blending horology and jewellery, likely created for the European market or high-end export. It typically features a miniature watch movement encased in azure blue enamel, decorated with…
1. Name that aesthetic: Domino Paper (for those of us who find as much joy in a book’s “clothing” as its contents) The forerunner of wallpaper, domino paper achieved its golden age in the second half of the 18th century.…
1. How Marc Chagall made the Paris Opera House Fresco Ceiling in the summer of 1964 (and should it be kept there?) On August 7, 1964, inside Hangar Y, (formerly the Chalais Meudon site where the world’s first airship hangar…
1. A Parisian apartment frozen in time with floor to ceiling cinema posters Inside the 400m2 home of a French doctor who was crazy about cinema. His walls that tell a lifetime of passion for cinema, every room is an…
1. A Behind the scenes look into the sketchbook of a medieval book illuminator Aren’t these incredible? Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a fifteenth-century monk…
1. Mistletoe sellers in Paris, 1928 Found here. 2. Collecting Modernist Mailboxes in Paris Photographed by Romain Laprade. 3. Withdrawn from auction, a rare example of the first functioning calculating machine in history was blocked from leaving France Christie’s withdrew rare…
