13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXXVI)

1. A Collection of Rare Photos of Men in the 1800s in Surprisingly Intimate Embraces In 2008, Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell passed away, bequeathing a trove of curios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring daguerreotypes, tintypes and ambrotypes of men “enjoying intimate physical contact without any evident trace of the self-consciousness one might…

The Soviet Communist Origins of International Women’s Day

I’ve been informed that the way we celebrate Women’s Day in western society is a little bit weak compared to the way they do it in Russia– which might have something to do with the fact that the Soviets basically invented the holiday. Long before the world had International Women’s Day, Soviet Russia had ‘Working Women’s Day’, where it was first declared a national…

Here’s What We Know About the Mysterious Knights Templar Rabbit Holes

For the amount we talk about going down the rabbit holes here on Messy Nessy Chic, there was no way I wasn’t going to obsess over this one. Have you heard about the Caynton Caves? In Shropshire, England, on the estate of an historic English estate, a series of rabbit holes leading into what’s being speculated as…

Why the Newspaper Kiosks in Paris are so Important

Paris’ 150 year-old newspaper kiosk could be considered one of the most “charming” little features of its urban landscape. A nostalgic reminder of simpler and more romantic times, largely unchanged over the years since they first appeared in 1857 during Baron Haussmann’s renovation of Paris. Just like London’s iconic red telephone booth, the Parisian kiosk…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXXV)

1. The Abbey Road Recording Console used by Pink Floyd is For Sale An Abbey Road Studios EMI TG12345 MK IV recording console used between 1971-1983, housed in Studio 2, the console which Pink Floyd used to record their landmark album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Also used by many other artists including: Paul…

Show and Tell: My Vintage Swiss Family Robinson

Today I’d like to share with you one of my most prized acquisitions of late. I was recently frolicking around the English countryside when I stumbled upon a rare books shop in the antiques town of Stow-on-the-Wold. I saw it straight away, staring at me in the shop window and I knew it had to be…

What Would You Order for Your Last Meal?

The last meals of death row inmates might not exactly be lightest material I could have chosen for you today, but I did find this terribly fascinating. Self-taught photographer Henry Hargreaves is from New Zealand where state sponsored death “is just not even in the conversation. It is a remnant of an earlier era,” he says.…

Disney’s Bizarre Sports Resort is Actually an Instagram Dream

This is going to be a quick one because I don’t want to sound like I sit around all day thinking about what would make the perfect instagram (although you’re welcome to like any of my posts here, of course), but I just had to share with you a most unexpected discovery. I was getting my daily…

The Village Invaded by Flowers

The small Polish village of Zalipie might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but to me, it has the cobalt-blues of Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul, the charm of European gypsy folklore and the hopeful promise of Spring… After the atrocities of World War II, the Polish people were in need of hope. In the years that followed,…

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A Cozy Weekend Guide to the Cotswolds

On a whim, as weekends are best planned, we hopped over the English channel to conquer the Cotwolds (and as many pubs as we could possibly fit inside of 48 hours). All winter, I’ve been longing to revisit the English countryside, tuck into a Beef Wellington with a pint of ale beside the roaring fireplace of a…

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