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

1. Inside a 1926 Rolls Royce Found on Mansions of the Gilded Age. 2. This Rare Midcentury Beauty for Sale Only seven of the fibreglass caravans – designed by industrial engineer Chuck Pelly in 1962 with an original price tag of $8,500 – were ever made and only two thought to still exist. Following its…

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

1. This Incredible antique lover’s Parisian atelier is for sale Listed here, found via The Spaces. 2. An art deco-inspired business jet Found on Design Boom made by this private jet company (interesting to see how the other half go private airplane shopping). 3. A woman wears scraps in an aircraft manufacturing site like…

For Sale: This Amazing Technicolor Castle

The Castello di Sammezzano is a show-stopper, a jaw-dropper. Hidden away in the Tuscan hills of Northern Italy, this electrifyingly beautiful Moorish castle was built a whopping 400+ years ago in 1605, and for more than two decades it was neglected, sitting empty and vulnerable to vandalism — until now. Once on the brink of…

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

1. Joseph Cornell’s Cabinets of Curiosity Joseph Cornell’s best-known works are glass-fronted boxes into which he placed and arranged Victorian bric-a-brac, old photographs, dime-store trinkets, and other found elements. Found on The Art Story. 2. The French Army’s Wine Stock before the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915 French Expeditionary’s wine stocks for the Gallipoli campaign, an unsuccessful…

Reviving the Real-Life “Middle Earth” Maps in a Secret Paris Museum

Maps and Miniatures — these are a few of my favourite things (along with Paris and all its secret places, of course). But you might be wondering what secrets I could possibly find at one of the most recognisable landmarks in Paris, Les Invalides? So big you can’t miss it, built four centuries ago for the invalids…

The Messy Nessy Kitsch-mas List

Was Christmas better in the seventies? All that tinsel, polyester and fake snow. Yesterday, I shared my gift guide for the nostalgic old world traveller, today, I thought we’d get a little less classy and a little more sassy… A Classy Cross Stitch Cross-stitches by Alicia Watkins available on her Etsy shop. Cooking with…

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

1. Shadowboxes Visually immersive handmade models, as alluring and enchanting as they are curious. Visit the Etsy shop here. 2. Just Bill Murray taking a nap on the set of Fantastic Mr. Fox Found via Syndicated Cinema’s Instagram account. 3. Scenes in a Bottle Forget ships in a bottle… The “Picasso”, if you…

The Bohemian King of 1920s Paris You’ve Never Heard Of

The life of Tsuguharu Foujita reads like a long lost Wes Anderson movie — and looks like one, too. The expat artist arrived in Paris from Japan in the 1920s, and with his prim bowl cut, button-ups, tiny spectacles (and curious passion for cats), his eccentricity made him the crème de la crème of the Montparnasse bohemians. Let us retrace…

Inside the Replica of the Titanic, Set to Sail in 2022

There is no vessel that has captured the world’s imagination quite like the Titanic. The “unsinkable” four-funnelled ship of the White Star Line that sunk beneath the ice cold waters of the Atlantic in 1912, is one of the 20th century’s great dramas. So would you step aboard a resurrection of the ill-fated Titanic? The concept of a…

I Have This Thing with Topiaries

Maybe it’s because, in truth, they’re completely unnecessary but so utterly gratifying when trimmed with precision. Maybe it’s because they transport us to the fantasies of our childhood, both romantic and slightly eerie (we’ve all seen how things end for Jack Nicholson in The Shining), but whatever the reason, we can’t stop staring at topiaries, so…

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