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Stop Everything and Check out this Perfectly Wes Anderson Parisian Apartment

I could see a Margaux Tenenbaum living here on her family-funded sabbatical in Paris, couldn’t you? In fact, I would encourage Mr. Anderson to consider this Parisian apartment that just hit to market, for a Francophile sequel to The Royal Tenenbaums. You may or may not be aware, that when the director is not off…

Won’t Someone Save this Scandalously Forgotten Chateau?

This post has been updated with new information you can find at the end of the post. With every passing day, the Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers falls further into ruin; another stone becomes dislodged by strangling vines, what remains of the roof sinks a little lower. Nature is winning. (c) Jean-Luc She’s a sleeping beauty situated in the…

Oh Lord, Won’t you Buy me a Caravan Yacht

Is that a motor home with a helicopter pad on its top deck? Why yes, yes it is. It also comes with a portable swimming pool, because both are clearly the most vital features of a camping trip. Behold the sixty-five-foot-long 1952 Executive Flagship… Designed by William MacDonald of the Chicago-based Mid States Corporation, the…

Exploring Cairo’s Ghost Mansions

When you visit Egypt, you’re supposed to come back with photographs of the pyramids. “I didn’t find them very interesting,” says photographer Xenia Nikolskaya, “and consequently didn’t photograph them”. In 2006, Xenia had travelled to Cairo with the help of the Egyptian Embassy in Moscow, but when she returned without a single photo of a pyramid,…

If Romeo & Juliet had gone House-Hunting Together

What if Romeo hadn’t drank the poison? What if Juliet had awoken to find her beau alive & kicking at her bedside and they’d ridden off into the sunset in search of a love nest, to live out the rest of their days happily ever after? Now that would be a house I’d like to visit. And…

Adopt an Abandoned French Chateau

So you know how I’m always telling you about these incredible chateaux left to ruin here in France? And then you ask, “why can’t someone save that place?” Well, I’ve come across something that can certainly help us try… Adopte un Château is a relatively new association dedicated entirely to saving endangered castles by working with…

Stop Everything, check out a Life-sized Victorian Dollhouse for Rent

I‘ll admit it’s a completely delusional exercise, but I do it anyway, staring wide-eyed at dreamy historic homes where I could act out my own Daphne du Maurier novel. Today’s property du jour, found wandering the internet, is a National Historic Landmark, a unique octagon-shaped and domed Victorian style house known as the Armour–Stiner House. It’s currently for rent…

Time Capsules of Lake Como

It’s not often that you browse through real estate pages feeling a nostalgia rushing through your insides and tugging at your heart strings, but that’s exactly what happens when I find myself digging through the property inventory of Lionard (specialists in big empty Italian castles for sale). This can’t be right… I say to myself as I click through rooms with incredible art…

Inside a Real-Life Miss Havisham Mansion For Sale

It’s quite an exciting moment when you find that mysterious, abandoned house you’ve been stalking on the internet over the years– never quite certain whether it even really, truly exists– finally appearing on a realtor’s listing, announcing its officially going up for sale. The Howey mansion in Florida is a bit of local legend, built by the 1920s citrus tycoon…

Wes Anderson could Probably Make his Next Movie in Singapore

When I put out my article “Location Scouting for Wes Anderson” a few weeks ago, I really didn’t expect it to echo across the internet like it did. And you know what? It’s kinda fantastic. For one, it gives more notoriety to an amazing filmmaker (you’ be surprised how many youngsters these days have never seen his movies). And two, I…

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