A Brief Compendium of Forgotten Christmas Specials
This Christmas is surely all about finding comfort where we can, and for many, that…
Category Time travel
Electric Jewellery and the Forgotten Genius who Lit Up Paris
Known as ‘The City of Light’ for nearly two centuries, Paris led the way during the…
The Real Ice Queens: Women Who Conquered the Cold Wearing Corsets
Can’t bear the winter cold anymore? Consider for a moment, this photograph of a woman…
Korean Cowboys of the Old World
Wisemen, dapper dudes, cowboys of the far east– I’m not really sure what to call…
The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making
Where do I start with this photograph? The dapper shoes? The Gene Kelly stance? The delicate…
Olympia Le-Tan transformed “Don’t be a Tourist” Books into Clutch Bags!
As an author and purveyor of curiosities, if there was ever a collaboration to be…
Unrecognizable Paris: The Monuments that Vanished
What you are looking at is not Disneyland Paris. These are photographs colored by hand…
The Not-So-Lost World of the Parisian Salon
Once upon a time, in a pre-smartphone world, people had to make their own entertainment.…
Trolling Nazis (and the world) with Forged Art
The accepted number of authenticated Vermeer paintings today is 34, but that number became mysteriously…
Found Snapshots of a Secret 1960s Drag Resort in the Catskills
If you were to journey to Jewett, NY today, you would find yet another semi-abandoned…
A Forgotten Ode to the Little Paris Shopfront
I was walking along the Seine this weekend, slowing my pace for the lonely bouquinistes…
The Dapper Rebels of Los Angeles, 1966
In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los…