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Check into a Tiny Paradise Resort

You already know I dig miniatures but another thing I particularly love is bonsai trees, so when you throw the two together, I’m going to get a little over excited. Today I found the work of Takanori Aiba, a Japanese wizard of miniature artistry with a specialty in making Bonsai treehouses and tiny tourist resorts from…

5 of the Rarest and Raddest Motors up for Auction Today

It’s Friday, the perfect time to daydream about a set of hot wheels to ride off at full-speed into the weekend with. RM Auctions has kicked off the auction season in Arizona this week with a eye-popping selection of automobiles. The final bids going under the hammer today so I’ve picked out my favourites because I’m pretty…

It’s Time for Show & Tell with the Vintage Camera Collection You Always Wanted

I found John Kratz and his camera collection on another one of my internet browsing adventures and was immediately taken with his sharp eye for vintage design. I love how some of his cameras just look like miniature art deco buildings. John is an experienced photographer, but here’s the thing about his collection– he hasn’t used a single camera……

The Vintage Menu Collector: 25,000 Restaurants by One Woman

I love reading menus. They are the shop windows of the kitchen and provide a playful sense of gambling for what might just be the best of worst meal of your life. Today I stumbled upon a rather mind-boggling collection on the NYPL Digital archives of thousands of restaurant menus dating as far back as 1851.…

An Illustrated Guide to the Human Race circa. 1960s

The internet is a little bit like a maze of doors, some that lead to a spiralling descent of procrastination and some, though not many, can lead to forgotten treasure. Today I picked the winning door and found one of the most impressive online collections of vintage ephemera I’ve ever had the pleasure of stumbling across. Pages and…

I Have this Thing with Floors: An Instagram Dedicated Entirely to Looking Down

Living in Europe, we’re a little spoilt for beautiful mosaic/ tiled flooring found in cafés, museums and historic buildings, and of course here in Paris, with all its charming architecture, the eye is almost trained to constantly look up. But a newly discovered instagram account has reminded me just how much I’m forgetting to do one very important…

The Guy who Built a 1970s Pan Am Airplane in his Garage

Here on MessyNessyChic, I think it’s safe to say we all enjoy the thought of traveling back in time now and again, but there are some people who take it just that little bit further. Self-confessed “airplane nerd” Anthony Toth has gone and spent nearly $100,000 on a partial replica 1970s Pan Am ‘747. He began building…

The Miniature Library of Forgotten Curiosities

If you can’t have your own velvet-curtained library complete with dusty volumes, mysterious documents and antique treasures, how about a miniature one? On my internet travels today, I stumbled upon the Etsy boutique of L. Delaney, artist and maker of tiny things. The pièce de résistance is this incredible one of a kind 1 inch…

This Vintage Trailer King lives on a 1920s Fish Farm

I came across this guy when I was discovering the incredible retro photographs of Ryan Schude last week and immediately had to know more about him. Johnny Agnew is not your average vintage collector. Nope, Johnny is what you might call an urban archeologist extraordinaire; the King of junk hunting. His “backyard”, which also happens to be an…

Here, here, an Archive dedicated to the Private Vintage Letterheads of Notorious Names

What would it be like to receive a letter from David Bowie or Nelson Mandela? Thanks to a Tumblr called Letterheady, with an archive of vintage letterheads belonging to various legends, icons and infamous characters through history, we can get a peek into the private world of their writing desks when letters were still king. I…

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