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My Bohemian Berlin Brasserie

The owner of Katz Orange (orange cat in German), was inspired by a trip he took to Peru where he met a spiritual priest who owned an orange cat. Upon entering the beautiful brasserie, you can imagine him sitting in this shaman’s mountain hut with an orange cat, surrounded by indigenous artifacts and kilim tapestries passed down from…

Mickey Mouse had the Coolest Caravan Ever

Long before modern mobile homes had their fancy gadgets and convertible floor plans at the touch of a button, Mickey, Daffy and Goofy were already a step ahead. Mickey’s Trailer is a 1938 animated short film produced by Walt Disney featuring Mickey’s highly adaptable airstream trailer and shows the sheer inventiveness of the Disney gang– way ahead…

My Teeny Tiny Antique Shop

On this small corner of the web, we’ve swooned over miniature versions of just about everything– a miniature Parisian café, micro vintage trailers, shrunken 1950s small town America, an underwater city, after-hours New York, bohemian ateliers, heck, I even dedicated an entire category on this blog to teeny tiny stuff. And since I’m guessing this is probably a…

So Jeff Goldblum has been playing a little-known Weekly Jazz Night for the last 15 Years

I had a pretty weird crush on Jeff Goldblum when I was a growing up. While other girls were buying teen pop magazines whose pages were filled with blonde, noodle-haired boy bands, I was picking up cigar aficionado magazines featuring interviews with the tall, stogy-loving actor, and renting his entire filmography at the video store on weekends. But that’s just…

The Great Parisian Waiters Race

If ever you’ve had an unpleasant experience with a French waiter (I’m guessing that’ll be just about everyone reading this), perhaps you might not be averse to some light entertainment at their expense. A bizarre sporting event that dates back more than a hundred years, the Waiters Race, better known to the French as the…

My New York City Beach Motel

Native New Yorkers are zoning in on a budding little beach community that’s re-awakening over at Rockaway Beach, gateway to Queens and home to the legendary old amusement park, Playland, which closed in the 1980s following the neighbourhood’s downturn during the 1960s. Since the beginning of the new millennium however, surfers have been bringing life back to Rockaway,…

Typography Lovers, let this Online Boutique Romance You

I just fell head over heels, got swept off my feet, they had me at ‘hello’– all that stuff needed to begin a good ol’ romance. And if like me, you’re a hopeless devotee of typography and old world design, prepare to be wooed. Izola is a New York-based company that has so stylishly and impeccably curated their online boutique with just the…

The Vintage Supercars Rotting away in a Forest (and that’s how the owner wants it)

This might be a painful sight for classic car enthusiasts. Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW; just a few of the iconic names whose logos you would never expect to find on vehicles in such a sorry state. But what might really shock you is that these unfortunate automobiles are not actually abandoned, and their owner is…

The Braided Rapunzels of Africa & other Tribal Trends

My early weekday nights are typically spent wandering the depths of Pinterest. On this occasion, I found a rather hypnotising pin board called Fashion Around the World, where I discovered these incredible African Rapunzels… The hairstyle currently making you do a double-take is known as Eembuvi Braids, worn by women of the Mbalantu tribes from the Namibia. It’s…

The Vintage Cigarette Machines now Coughing up Art

If you haven’t yet discovered these vintage vending machine with their kitschy graphics re-appearing across America, now is the time. Behold the Art-o-mat! Formerly the not-so-wholesome cigarette dispenser that lured teenage smokers with warm glowing lights, futurist artwork and steely knobs; today, a friendly little machine, rescued from its junkyard destiny to sell art, packed neatly into small…

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