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13 Things I’d Buy Purely for their Perfect Packaging

All good things come in awesomely designed packages. Isn’t that the saying? Okay so I’m a sucker for beautiful packaging and these 13 products had me at hello… 1. Art Deco Wine “Delphis Sauvignon Blanc and Delphis Syrah are made exclusively by Hamilton Russel for the Nimb Hotel, located in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark.” Designed…

The Deadly Art of Train Surfing in South Africa

There are not many places in the world where you could get away with something like this, but South Africa seems to be one of them. And for too many, the risk is far greater than prison time. They call it ‘staff riding’, a scarily common sport for dare-devil thrill-seekers which involves jumping aboard moving…

5 Vintage Design Ideas to Steal from this Nostalgic NYC Dream Loft

This incredible New York City loft just went on the market for $3,250,000. Personally, that’s a little out of my budget– and by a little, I mean a lot. Who would even give up such a place anyway? This is the Noho/ East Village home of actor Bradley Darryl “BD” Wong. You may remember him from…

The Giant Vintage Camera Café

All too often when I’m browsing Tumblr, I’ll find a photograph that I just have to know the story behind. Is it real? Can I go there? All that stuff. And then you look beneath the photo for some information and find a whole lot of nothing. No source, no name, no location, nada. But…

There’s Something about Moffy

Meet Moffy. She recently did her first-ever magazine shoot for POP magazine, who put her on their front cover and called her ‘the face’. “Sounds like another meaningless fashion mag story title to me!” says the photographer who shot her for the story. It probably is meaningless to put labels on Moffy and make all…

My Little Lighthouse Hotel

For anyone else who has ‘stay overnight at a lighthouse’ on their list of things to do, meet me at the Saugerties Lighthouse, a two hour drive from Manhattan in the Hudson Valley. Ditch the car and walk a half a mile up the peninsula where the lighthouse will finally emerge from the tall grass, cut…

Snapshots of a Soviet Ghost Town

Within a disputed territory on the Eastern coast of the Black Sea, spread across a valley often hidden in fog, lies the industrial town of Tkvarcheli, where the Soviet era still lives on like an evil spirit that haunts the streets. Photography by V Mulder Tkvarcheli was built in the early 1940’s Stalinist period to supply coal…

The Parisianer: A Dream Magazine

I returned to Paris early this morning after ten days of travelling in Sri Lanka, swapping a tropical climate and kaleidoscopic colours for crisp winds and grey rooftops. Unpacking my treasured souvenirs and island memories, I was admittedly feeling the blues in an apartment that seemed a little more gloomy than I had left it–…

Literally the Best Shop on the Internet: Shoppe

Here at Messy Nessy Chic– that includes you, dear reader– we are a curious bunch aren’t we? Always looking for the authentic and the unique, the homemade and the well-travelled things of this earth. And when we decide to bring an object into our homes, it damn well better have a good story. In short,…

Euro Train Tripping in the Summer of 1970

At the dawn of the 1970s, it cost around $24 to travel from London to Italy. As the train went clickety-clack, rattling through the ever-evolving landscape, two strangers could strike up a conversation over a few slices of shared bologna ham and make it last for a thousand miles. A new breed of traveler was…

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