At Home and in the Office with America’s First Black Millionairess
There are so many grand Gilded Age homes in New York’s Hudson River Valley, it…
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French Folk Costume or Next Season’s Haute Couture?
French fashion designers have long been at the forefront of avant-garde style and Paris has…
The Black Aerialist Who Dazzled Gilded Age Paris
A diminutive Black woman hung upside down from a trapeze as two men pushed and…
Stop Everything, Check Out this Real-Life Brambly Hedge Treehouse
Combine our love of treehouses with our love of teeny tiny stuff and you’ve got…
How America Became Enamoured with Octagon Houses
Explore America’s small towns, and you might be lucky to stumble across a peculiarly shaped…
Before Amelia Earhart, there was the Forgotten First Lady of Flight
We have all heard of Amelia Earhart, breaking records as the first woman to fly…
Collector’s Item du Jour: Japanese Matchbox Art of the 1920s
In the 1920s and 1930s, matchboxes in Japan were a miniature billboard in the palm…
The Lost Art of the Movie Title
Movie title typography is a lost art in my opinion. Hollywood today just doesn’t put…
Found in an NYC Junk Shop: Forgotten Postcards between Two Haiku Masters
Found at the bottom of an old mailbox in a New York antiques store, what’s…
She Put Bohemianism on New York’s Front Page
No magazine has a cover style as distinctive, enduring and charming as that of The…
The Third Man Guide to Vienna
Vienna is rightly regarded as one of Europe’s most elegant capital cities, resplendent with Baroque…
Explore this Miniature Apocalyptic City
This just about combines two of the most fascinating things to me; miniature art and…