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Conical Paris Rooftops & other Unusual Parisian Abodes For Sale

It’s Bastille Day in France this weekend, so I thought, what better a time for you to be daydreaming about moving to Paris. I haven’t done this for a while– that is, browse real estate listings for apartments I can’t afford, but I’d forgotten how much fun it is to play Goldilocks in Paris. So…

Johnny Cash’s White Witch of Montego Bay

Where’s your husband Annie? Where’s number two and three? Are they sleeping neath the palms beside the Caribbean Sea? At night I hear you ridin’ and I hear your lovers call And still can feel your presence round the great house at Rose Hall… –Johnny Cash Something unsettling sleeps in the walls of Jamaica’s seductive Rose…

Mission Martini

My week was starting out just like any other when I received a mysterious email in my inbox. I was invited to Italy to discover Turin, the hometown of Martini. I had a 15 minute window to decide if I could jump on a plane in the next 24 hours and spend the next 3…

25 Ways You Never Knew Wallpaper Could Be So Cool

And suddenly I’m interested in Wallpaper… 1. Room with a Parisian view Shop here 2. The curator Shop here 3. Sea Breeze Shop here 4. Converted Gasoline Stop Shop here 5. Love Letters Shop here 6. Rue à Montmartre Shop here 7. Frescoes Shop…

Couple Buy an Abandoned French Chateau, Start a Blog to Share Their Journey

There are many reasons why you might start a blog, but documenting the revival of an 18th century neoclassical ruin seems like a pretty damn good reason if you ask me. In 2013, Australian husband & wife team Karina and Craig Waters purchased the Chateau de Gudanes, a decaying fairytale mansion in the Midi-Pyrénées that had…

Paradise Lost at the Botanist’s Mansion

For as long as I can remember, this strange and beautiful house above the sea has fascinated me — and this may be the last time I ever see it. Scheduled for complete demolition in a matter of months, it might not be the most ostentatious of old buildings, but it captured my childhood imagination.…

Check in to the Most Beautiful Insane Asylum in the World

When you picture a mental asylum, this is probably not quite the image that pops up. Stark hallways and dungeon-like holding cells is what Hollywood has taught me to imagine, but over in the rolling hills of Tuscany, flying over the cuckoo’s nest was done in style once upon a time… Photographs (c) Alex Doomer Palatial grounds,…

Murder in the Blueprints of Frank Lloyd Wright

The legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright never wore his heart on his sleeve. For better or for worse, he dressed up his blueprints in his feelings, and nowhere is that reflex so painfully clear than in his handful of mysterious, pre-Colombian-inspired houses built in California in the early 1920s. You could call them “the…

London Loos to Luxury Living: Before & After

It takes a special sort of mind to walk into abandoned public toilets (the men’s room, not even the ladies) and think, yep, this is my future home. But for young London-based architect Laura Jane Clark, the filthy and crumbling Crystal Palace Parade underground loos somehow spoke to her. Built in 1929 and last used…

Check out the Most Eccentric AirBnB Pad in NYC

Do you remember that time we discovered the ‘Museum of Every Object you can Probably Think Of‘– that old farming estate in Parma, Italy with an an archive of more than 60,000 everyday artifacts masterfully arranged around the old house? Well I think I just found its stateside equivalent right in the heart of Williamsburg, New York. Welcome to…

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