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Category / Teeny Tiny Stuff

The Tiniest Antique Shop in Paris is stuck to the side of a Church (and sells fresh Eggs)

“So I heard about the tiniest antique shop in Paris that’s stuck to the side of a church,” said Mum over dinner one evening. Of course, the very next morning, I went to hunt it down… The Église Saint Roch is one of the most beautiful churches in Paris and it’s where all the fancy…

Le P’tit Bar: A Time Capsule in Paris

At 9 meters squared, “Le P’tit Bar” is literally the most petit bar in Paris. On any evening upon first glance, it looks as if it’s closing up for the night, but do not be deterred– push open the stiff door, because if you’ve ever wanted to experience a real-life time capsule, this is the place……

A Shipwrecked Sailor’s Guide to Castaway Depots

Get your sea legs ready, we’re setting sail for the bygone days of wild seafaring in search of a little-known piece of nautical history: the castaway depot. Also known as castaway huts, castaway depots were small shelters strategically placed on isolated islands by governments or maritime organisations and equipped with basic supplies and tools to…

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, and he went by the name of Saint Valentine. Unfortunately for Valentine, however, the day-turned-holiday marked his tragic end, as the martyr was clubbed to death in Rome on February 14th, 269 AD. But you can still go blow a…

Abandoned 1960s French Riviera Film set: A Miniature Underwater City Before & After

A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater hotel has become a bit of an institution with local fish who have been checking in since the 1960s. At 30 meters below sea level near a lighthouse called La Fourmigue, off the Cap d’Antibes, lies the remains…

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 our undivided attention. Throughout winter, there’s been one Instagram account that’s had us hanging on its every post. For the past seven months, Catherine Lenoir, a miniature hobbyist and artist based in France, has been building and creating her own…

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 of your hand, promising a glamorous modern life of smoky bars, marcelled hair, and nude women entwined around giant goblets of wine. Produced with a traditional woodblock, the artwork showed influences from Bauhaus and Expressionism, making them a fascinating blend…

Explore this Miniature Apocalyptic City

This just about combines two of the most fascinating things to me; miniature art and the depiction of post-apocalyptic world. Photographer Lori Nix is clearly not your average photographer. Rather than going out and looking for her subjects, Lori builds her own by hand which can take up to 7 months each. Her scenes can…

Tiny Surrealism

What I like most about Frank Kunert‘s work is that it makes me grunt– a grunt that says, “that’s clever, you cheeky bugger”. The German photographer makes all his tiny 3D models himself before he snaps them. Not all the punchlines in his scenes are immediately obvious, leaving the viewer to look a little longer,…

The Day After Tomorrow

Self-taught French photographer Franck Allais‘ mission is to put things in a new perspective– things like an impending apocalypse maybe? I promised myself I wouldn’t jump on the end-of-the-world Maya bandwagon but I couldn’t help myself with these whimsical photographs from a lost world… Happy Fin du Monde everybody!

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