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Here’s What to Buy a Nostalgic Old-World Traveller

They would rather blow their budget on a voyage aboard the Orient Express than take the low cost the airline. Travel heroes include Agatha Christie, Ernest Hemingway and Wes Anderson’s “Darjeeling” brothers. Preferred mode of transport: time machine. If this fits the personality of the person you’ve been struggling to find a gift for, you’ve come to…

Abandoned London Corner Store Revived with Squishy Cadburys and Fluffy Crisps

When I was a kid, I used to set up a make-believe grocery shop in my bedroom and have a whale of a time for hours on end, selling imaginary products to imaginary customers. Artist Lucy Sparrow has pretty much taken this childhood fantasy and made it real (and I’m pretty damn jealous). Meet Lucy,…

For Sale: A Half a Million Dollar Dodo Skeleton & other Curiosities for Your Cabinet

I bet you’d find all sorts of real-life Indiana Jones and Tintin-type characters attending an auction like this one. Summers Place Auctions in England are the world’s leading auctioneers of Natural History (and garden statuary), and they’ve got the goods to prove it. At an upcoming auction this November, a rare composite skeleton of the dodo,…

The Retro Radio Farm

I‘ve had my eye out for the perfect vintage radio for a while, scouring Paris flea markets and antique shops, but never finding a real beauty that actually makes decent sound and certainly nothing that can connect to an iPod. But today, as I was roaming the pages of Etsy I stumbled upon Retro Radio Farm, a music…

House Hunting like a Russian Millionaire is seriously Entertaining Stuff

I can’t believe I never googled Russian real estate before! We all know our friends from the former Soviet Union have a special kind of taste when it comes to interior design, but with a limitless decorating budget, it just gets even better. I decided to window shop with Sotheby’s Realty, which has a colourful…

Winter is Coming, so please enjoy this Insane 1980s Book of Knitted Sweaters

There are treasures to be found at second hand book sales, you never know what out-of-print gems you might unearth. Take for example, this 1986 book of knitting patterns called “Wit Knits”… The contents of the book has been scanned and given its own Tumblr site by George Hostler who “found this knitting pattern book in…

These Cosmic Painted Gloves are the Only Way to Make it through Winter

Gloves are probably the least desirable piece of the winter wardrobe and most of the time I just feel like I a penguin when I have to wear them. I mean, have you ever seen a really cool pair of gloves? Well me neither, until I came across these weathered vintage leather gloves, hand-painted by LA-based…

The Fashion Institute of Technology is Cleaning out its Closet

The permanent museum collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology currently includes something like 50,000 garments and accessories, dating from the 18th century to the present– and they’re still acquiring new pieces all the time. So just like the rest of us ladies, every now and again, they need to do a little downsizing to refine the…

For Sale: House on the Paris Vineyard

Every now and again, I find myself wandering over to the Christie’s real estate website for a good snoop through their Paris files, staring wide-eyed at the dream homes, all the while obliviously dropping croissant flakes over my keyboard. Today I came across a particularly special property, in large part due to its incredible location, location, location! The…

Exactly what Your Next Dinner Party Needs: Nuclear Reactor Porcelain Plates

To save your next dinner party (and its guests) from the curse of politically-correct small talk, set the table–and your ambiance– with a radioactive sense of irony. I’ve gone a little gaga for this collection of hand-painted porcelain plates which replace folkloric windmills and country farms with hand-painted nuclear reactors and power plants… Created by a German…

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