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

1. The Carson Mansion Considered the most grand Victorian home in America, located in Old Town, Eureka, California, regarded as one of the highest executions of American Queen Anne Style architecture. Check out the upstairs hallway. It is one of the most written about and photographed Victorian houses in California and perhaps also in the…

The 19 Most Popular MessyNessy Articles of 2019

Messy Nessy’s 2019 was a year on the verge. We released Don’t Be a Tourist in New York, the beloved sister book to Don’t Be a Tourist in Paris, and took the MNC universe to new heights with the Vault. Most of all, we had the joy and privilege of holding your hand down the…

Doisneau’s Dark Room

Robert Doisneau intimately knew the Paris we’re forever chasing. The one where those cafés & shops lost in time are on every corner. Where the simple pleasures of life are being appreciated all around us. Where elegance is an everyday occasion. He’s most famous for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (Kiss by the…

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

1. Two Victorian Women building a snow woman, 1892 Found on The Gilded Age Society. 2. A Different Kind of Christmas Soundtrack, 1969 3. A Salesman’s suitcase of Christmas lightbulbs, 1960s Found on Pinterest. 4. Christmas in New Orleans Bucket listed. 5. A living Christmas Tree, 1971 Living Christmas Tree: carolers singing massed on stepped…

Let’s Go Gift Shopping in the ’80s

The 80s have been coming back in a big way in the past few years. Stranger Things became the most-watched Netflix show, 80s blowouts made their way down the fashion week runways again, as did fanny packs, oversized blazers and scrunchies. We even found a Saved by the Bell themed Airbnb. So while you’re sitting…

Moonlight Etchings of the Forgotten Artist who Taught Edward Hopper

Martin Lewis died in obscurity in 1962; a retired art teacher who had found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten after the Great Depression took away the demand for his craft, leaving Lewis to spend his last three decades teaching other people how to etch. History chose Edward Hopper, but Martin…

Oh Me Oh My, Check out Every Room in this Gilded Age Dollhouse

You just never know what talent your next door neighbour might be hiding. Michael Guidry is a florist from Finleyville, Pennsylvania who has built a palatial Gilded Age dollhouse to rival the Queen of England’s. For Mike, this is a hobby, which he acquired when his father first made his sister a dollhouse as children. He began…

Greetings from Pioneer Camp, Soviet Russia

Did you hear the one about the Soviet school children who gifted a US Ambassador with a plaque of the United States seal as a gesture of friendship in 1945? It hung in his Moscow office for 7 years before the Americans discovered it was bugged with a listening device. True story. The school children involved in…

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

1. Mystery £50m Gustav Klimt masterpiece found hidden in a wall A Gustav Klimt painting stolen 23 years ago from the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery in Italy might just have been discovered in the unlikeliest of places—inside the walls of the gallery itself. A gardener was recently clearing ivy from the building’s walls, the…

The Oddly Comforting Allure of London’s Vintage Tube Textiles

Fun fact. The woman who revolutionised British print design with some of the most iconic patterns for public transport was in fact a distant cousin of Karl Marx. Her name was Enid Marx, and in 1937 she was selected by the London Passenger Transport Board to design the moquette seat fabrics for the London bus and tube seats. Her…