New York’s Forgotten Outpost of European Aristocracy
The far end of New York’s Long Island is a place filled with secrets. Set…
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Ode to the Monobloc Chair
One of the ultimate icons of modernity and mass production must be the famously infamous…
Wild Card Destination du Jour: Southern Indiana’s Failed Utopia
What put Southern Indiana on our radar? Mysterious utopian experiments and end-of-the-world 19th century religious…
Portraits Found in the Attic: Black Women in the Gilded Age
There is a sizeable gap in the documentation of Black American history. So often, what…
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…
Searching for the Last Dance with Old Berlin
Looking for the remnants of old Berlin is difficult. Not so much the churches, museums…
13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol.780)
1. “Après le bal” (After the ball) – a micro 19th century art genre of…
A Back to the Future Tour of Paris in the 1950s
Straight out of a Jetsons cartoon, get a load of this Citroen U55 Currus Cityrama…
The Last Peach Orchards of Paris
Peaches grown right here in Paris? Believe it or not, centuries ago, Paris became home…
The Paris Horror Show
Friday night at the theatre would never be quite the same again. Down a dark…
Meet the Man Who Dressed Dolly Parton
An overdose of rhinestone encrusted onto pastel leathers with fringes at every available seam. It’s so bad…