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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…

Fill in the Blank: I Wish this Abandoned Building Was …

What if we had the power to decide what became of the neglected buildings in our cities? What if sharing our ideas and feedback could really influence and shape the development of public spaces in our neighbourhoods? Artist Candy Chang is wishing for a world like that– and trying to make her wish come true … Do…

The Veteran Chanel Window Dresser who opened the Oddest Little Art Gallery in Paris

I once read somewhere that if you were to spend eight seconds in front of every piece of artwork in the Louvre’s collection it would take one year to see everything. I believe the same rule holds true for Station Arret Facultatif. It’s as if a tornado swept through Paris and dumped the best of the…

For Sale! The Three-Eyed Car of Tomorrow that Never Was

It could have been as iconic as the Mustang, as popular as the Cadillac but only 51 Tuckers were ever made before the factory suddenly closed its doors forever in 1948. The Tucker 48 was the American dream of a small entrepreneur who believed he could go up against the automobile giants at a time when the…

Stop Everything, it’s a Teeny Tiny Bird Town

This is very much one of those, “shutup and take my money” moments. And I don’t actually have a garden to put one of these things in, but minor details. I found this series of birdhouse shopfronts and eclectic homes while perusing Pinterest and sort of just lost it (the Route 66 Diner had me at hello).…

The Forgotten Book Painter

Have you ever found yourself doodling on the cover of a book, even just tracing over the lines of the artwork with your fingertips, or be it drawing moustaches with a permanent marker on magazine covers? I think we can safely say that American artist Joseph Decamillis has taken this practice to a whole new level……

The Romeo & Juliet Villages of Santa Barbara

Now this is my idea of a Romeo and Juliet scene– that is if they had fallen in love in a fantasy Andalusian village rather than Verona. We’re ogling at the mediterranean residence of Cota Street Studios, designed by local Santa Barbara architect, Jeff Shelton, whose work I’m just discovering and will hopefully explore more in…

This GIF Art will Charm your Socks Off

What I like most about art in GIF format is that it’s an art form made just for us cyber wanderers of the internet. Those big fancy galleries can’t hang it on their walls and slap on a big fat price tag (at least for now); collectors can’t hide them away in their private estates for…

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