But Did You See the Holiday Windows at the Macy’s of Moscow?

As much as we moan about holiday decorations going up too early every year, there’s something about perusing those eye-catching window displays that somehow manages to yank us back to childhood as we stand before them in our wooly hats, like moths to a flame. So maybe you thought Bloomingdale’s, Saks or Macy’s were the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXV)

1. The world’s first publicly accessible art museum storage facility Offering an entirely new type of experience for museum-goers and art lovers in the Netherlands, the art storage facility in Rotterdam’s Museumpark, which will open to the public in autumn 2021, has been built to house the art collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in one place…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXIV)

1. This Alpine Shelter in the Italian Dolomites, built during World War I at a height of 2760 meters Today, the mountain range is part of the “Natural Park of the Ampezzo Dolomites,” but back during WWI it was a scene of intense warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary. The warring sides installed heavy artillery, built…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXIII)

1. Take a peek around this Georgian style home for sale “The Hargrove Bellamy House is a prominent Market Street mansion in the heart of historic Wilmington with an impressive historic pedigree. Built in 1928, by Hargrove Bellamy, a descendant of Wilmington’s famed Bellamy family, this mansion quality residence is the unique marriage of romance…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXII)

1. A Live-In Museum/ Gallery Space in Provence for Sale Situated in the heart of beautiful Bonnieux Village in the Luberon region, asking 420,000 euros. More details found on Espaces Atypiques. 2. England’s oldest inn, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem (dating to 1189) Nottingham, England was once described as a “Place of Caves” and indeed,…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXXI)

1. A historic spiritual sanctuary of miniature shrines on Kauai Originally the site of an ancient heiau, or Hawaiian temple, the 32-acre valley on Kauai’s southern shore later became host to iconography of another religion: 88 Buddhist shrines. Measuring no larger than a dollhouse, the series of sacred monuments were built by Japanese émigrés in 1904;…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXX)

1. A House Fit for Winnie the Pooh in the Original Hundred Acre Wood The Bearbnb is situated in Ashdown Forest just south of London, made available to book on Airbnb as part of Disney’s 95th Anniversary celebrations of the loveable children’s character. 2. A Catalogue of Ready-to-Build “Classical French Mansions” by a Vietnamese Architectural Firm These 3D…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXIX)

1. Elevator Girls, by Miwa Yanagi, 1994–8 For Japanese artist Miwa Yanagi, “elevator girls” (the hostesses employed to greet shoppers in department stores) have proved a potent means of exploring the role of women in Japanese society. Her first solo show featured various uniformed models standing beside fake elevators, performing ritualised actions. Yanagi expanded upon…

A Brief Compendium of Vintage Cocktail Recipe Books

Sometimes, you just strike internet gold – ya know, those obscure little corners of the internet where you can fall blissfully down the rabbit hole. Today’s find is a free online library of unearthed and collected bartender books; rare volumes dating from the 1820s through the 1940s, faithfully digitised – every last page – by…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DLXVIII)

1. The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias Half a century ago, a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land, creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Here, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the tail end of a…