Ode to the Monobloc Chair
One of the ultimate icons of modernity and mass production must be the famously infamous…
Category Art & Design Awesomeness
She Was the World’s First Female Architect, but No One Really Gave a Damn
You would think that being Frank Lloyd Wright’s earliest protégé; the woman behind so many…
The Secret Lives of Fashion Mannequins
For a brief moment in the 1930s, one of the most famous celebrities of the…
Men in Tights and Tutus: The Decadence of the Sun King’s Male Ballets
The cool thing about being royalty, is you get to go all out on your…
Let’s Entertain the Theory of the Tartarian Empire for a Moment
What do you mean you’ve never heard of the lost civilization of Great Tartaria? It’s…
Forget Roadside America, Let’s Location Scout in “Weird France”
I’ve been yearning to get back across the pond for a good ol’ dose of…
The Enchanting Genius of a Quietly Forgotten Midcentury Maximalist
Let us take a look inside the classical grandeur and neo-romanticism that flows through the…
She’s the forgotten Parisian gallerist Who Helped Make Picasso and Matisse
When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill was forced to close her Parisian gallery and go…
Your Summer Photo Goals, as Demonstrated by the 1920s Morris Mermaids
It all started with this those three girls on a rock in 1922, putting my…
Summering with the Surrealists: Sea, Sex and Sun
Let us rewind to the sizzling summers of 1936 and ‘37 to holiday on the…
Indulge in the Underrated Influence of Erté
An artist like Erté was unlikely to go by unnoticed in history with his profound…
A Brief Compendium of Vintage Cocktail Recipe Books
Sometimes, you just strike internet gold – ya know, those obscure little corners of the…