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…
Category Time travel
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…
Stepping back in Time to a Jazz Age Lawn Party
Can you imagine anything more delightful than sailing from Manhattan, and heading for an uninhabited…
The Women Warriors who served Wine on the Battlefield
Forgotten feminist icons of the French military, the Vivandières, alternatively known as cantinières, was the French…
Summer in the Seventies with Andy Warhol
Let’s take a little trip down memory lane and invite ourselves round to Andy’s summer…
The Forgotten Glamour of Vacationing in Vittel
In a scorching Parisian heat wave, all one wants to do is chug a bottle of…
The Forgotten Power of the Parlour Palm
We forget that once upon a time, social status had a lot to do with…