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For Sale: The Red Velvet Apartment in Paris

Isn’t it just fabulous?! A little strange, but kinda fabulous. I’m picturing Jessica Rabbit smoking her cigarette pipe out of the window here on a misty evening in Paris, the opening scene for her own sexy French spin-off story. It’s like we’ve stepped inside the church of red velvet, on the top floor of a luxurious 18th century…

For Sale! The Ghost Town that Nobody Wanted

Johnsonville, Connecticut may be completely void of (human) inhabitants at present and characterised by those particular houses where one might occasionally see the faint shadows of children in nightgowns watching you from the attic window, but hey– a few licks of paint and a good spring clean to wash those ghosts right out of your lair and you could…

A Compendium of Teenage Bedrooms on Screen

I never thought teenage bedroom design would inspire me but then I found this amazing Tumblr dedicated entirely to just that. Hollywood set design at its most loveable. It’s also a handy tool for picking what to watch (or re-watch) on movie night. Enjoy this trip down memory lane! Valley Girl (1983) Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)…

The House at the End of the Street

We need more of those oddball houses at the end of the street that neighbours complain about because it doesn’t look anything like the other houses. Graphic designer Matthias Jung is not an architect but he creates what he calls ‘architectural short poems’, surreal homes put together from photo material that he collects, building his own architectural misfits. Don’t you just…

The Hidden Feast in a Barcelona Factory After Dark

We left the Barcelona night behind us, disappearing through a graffiti-covered door on a bustling back street of locals going about their downtown nocturnal hustle. All we have is this calling card with an address on the back as we wander down the austerely-lit corridor and take the first staircase, not entirely sure where it will…

Sleep inside a Designer’s Cabinet of Curiosities Boutique

Here’s how it usually works with me on the internet. I’ll stumble upon a single photograph of something that looks curious and intriguing and I’ll follow that image down the rabbit hole to the other end of the earth, literally. Today I came out the other end of the rabbit hole in Australia after finding a…

Disappear inside the Secret “Sinners” Cave Temple

If you’re in need of the perfect spiritual hideaway, I think I might have found it. Like something out of a legend, nestled inside an ancient grotto carved out of steep limestone cliffs in a remote region of Italy, the clandestine Temple of Valadier is thought to symbolize the Virgin Mary’s Roman Catholic title, “Refugium eccatorum”, meaning “refuge of sinners“… (c) Luca…

The Restaurant of 10,000 Bones (Probably not for Vegetarians)

When it comes to restaurants, for me, the ambiance and decor is just as important as the food and I particularly enjoy it when a restaurant feeds me some serious home décor inspiration wherever I look in between mouthfuls. But this sock-knocking restaurant I stumbled upon really gives you something to chew on. Hueso restaurant is a…

Inside the Deserted Mansions of an American Heiress

She had three sprawling luxury homes at her disposal, but Huguette Clark chose to spend the last 20 years of her life holed up in a New York hospital room. Her father became as rich as Rockefeller from mining copper and founded the city of Las Vegas, but Huguette wasn’t your average American heiress. No one…

The Rotting Underwater Ballroom of a Victorian Bernie Madoff

Beneath the lake of a once lavish Victorian estate built by a flamboyant mining tycoon, a secret awaits… (c) Forgotten Heritage At murkey water’s edge, a stone structure being overtaken by greenery hides a locked door. If you happen to have the right key, it will lead you down a spiral staircase and underneath the lake…

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