Frida Kahlo’s Wardrobe Unlocked and on Display After Nearly 60 Years

When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego passed three years later, a philanthropist, art collector and old friend of the couple, Dolores Olmedo became the manager of their houses. She kept all of Kahlo’s belongings secretly guarded under lock and key for decades until…

The Cook’s Atelier in Burgundy, France

The talented film-making duo behind Tiger in a Jar have struck again, this time they’re in France, filming the culinary workshop, The Cook’s Atelier in Burgundy. It prompted me to find out a little bit more about the dreamy workshop, and if you’re looking to try out some authentic cook thrown in with a very…

The Secret Museum entombed in the Notting Hill Tube Station

Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may lie just on the other side of a wall. As crowds of vintage and antique lovers leave the train at Notting Hill Gate for a day of treasure hunting at Portobello market, they’re probably unaware of the most…

The Artist who Drew Everything she Bought

If you were to draw everything little thing you consumed, would you be able to stomach it? Kate Bingaman Burt is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon who has been documenting all her purchases everyday for the past six years. From everyday purchases to one-off finds or pricey indulgences, it’s all there, chronicled on her treasure…

Hot Wheels: The Lost Three-Wheeled Dymaxion

It was voted one of the 50 worst cars of all time and deemed ‘unworkable’– but I think it looks pretty rad if you ask me, as long as you don’t actually try to drive it or anything. It resembles a torpedo but its fastest documented speed was only 90 miles per hour (although the…

Vintage Home inside a Giant Industrial Shed

Is it a movie set? An art instillation? Nope, this is a real home (within a home) built by quirky architect Adam Kalkin in suburban New Jersey. It’s called the Bunny Lane House and was built around the original traditional two-storey house you can see in the photograph (which sadly does not have yet an…

The Wise Woodsman

He sounds more like a poet than a wood worker, but Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co is a man of profound thoughts and words. (And I like his outfit too). The Scout magazine visited Josh in Kingston, New York in 2010 and stepped back in time with the wood sculptor to document…

10 Inspiring Cafés Around the World

Everyone needs to find their own café– it’s an identity thing. 1. The Grounds, Alexandria, Australia Once a former warehouse and pie factory in the early 1900s, The Grounds has got to be one of the most beautiful and eclectic coffee shops I’ve ever seen. With a coffee ‘research and testing facility’ alongside the café,…

The Dapper Rebels of Los Angeles, 1966

In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay depicting the…

13 Things I Found on the internet Today (Vol. III)

If you can’t accept the holidays are over, say I! Today was spent mostly getting lost on the internet and here is the result… 1. What Marilyn Monroe could have looked like as a brunette. Pretty smokin! Do blondes really have more fun?! Maybe she should have stuck with her natural color. via here 2.…