A Shipwrecked Sailor’s Guide to Castaway Depots
Get your sea legs ready, we’re setting sail for the bygone days of wild seafaring…
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Building Mr. Eiffel’s Penthouse Apartment: A Tower Under Construction
A Parisian friend dropped some very interesting photographs in my inbox this week, some that I’d…
Her Apprenticeship with Le Corbusier Didn’t Go Quite as He Expected
“We don’t embroider cushions here,” said the man considered as the most important architect of the modern…
10 Time Travelling Paris Movies to Cozy Up With
On these dark winter nights, is there anywhere else you’d rather escape to than Paris?…
On Dating David Bowie in the Seventies
From a distant galaxy, far, far away, Ziggy Stardust made his last public appearance in…
Mirrors were Invented in 1835. So What Did We Do Before?
How many times have you seen you today? The fact is, the modern mirror as…
A Brief Compendium of Egyptomania
Sphinxes, scarabs and obelisks, oh my! Egyptomania quite literally indicates a madness for anything Egyptian;…
Found: A German Soldier’s WWII Scrapbook
There’s something enchanting about coming across an old scrapbook; more than just a photo album,…
A Year of Not Being a Tourist with MessyNessyChic
It’s been a life-changing year for MessyNessy all thanks to four magic little words: Don’t…
So Matisse, Chagall, and the Headless Horseman Walk into a Church…
Tucked along New York’s Hudson River is the town of Sleepy Hollow, where old carriage…
You Can Blow a Kiss to the Real St. Valentine
That’s right, there really was a flesh-and-blood Italian behind the kitsch holiday we’ve got today,…
Kim Jong-un Married One of His Cheerleaders
It’s a big year for North Korea. The country has qualified 22 athletes for the…