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Doctor Zhivago’s Summer Home is currently taking Reservations

Omar Sharif, best-known of course for his role as Doctor Zhivago, bought this cave house on the island of Lanzarote in the 1970s. It was love at first sight when he discovered it during a press tour for his film Mysterious Island. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t get to keep it for very long after losing…

My Parisian Studio in Tokyo, Japan

Photographic studio spaces can be wondrous little places, sort of like your own private theatre set without the audience. This particular studio that I virtually stumbled upon in downtown Tokyo, has that ‘Paris loft’ décor down to a science, from the French windows and parquet flooring to the vintage gas outlets and peeling wallpaper. The…

Backstage at Versailles: A Handyman’s Tour of the Palace

Robert Polidori has the keys to the palace. But not the perfectly-polished, museum-ready palace we’re used to seeing from behind the velvet ropes. In the 1980s, the Canadian-born photographer won a contract to document the ongoing restoration of the historic French palace, giving him and his camera lense an all-access pass to backstage Versailles. When…

If Wes Anderson had an Online Store, it would Probably look Something like This

Browsing the Best Made Co., an independent store based out of New York, is a little bit like browsing a Wes Anderson movie prop list. Steve Zissou’s red beanie and survival kit– check; Moonrise Kingdom’s boy scout badges and campfire tools– check. Since it was founded in 2009 by Peter Buchanan-Smith, a down-and-out guy who had just…

I just took a Romantic Evening Stroll in Marseille … while sitting at my desk

Admittedly, I find Google Street View a little scary. It always jumps around on me, warping me all the way down the street when I just want to see the next door down. So when I got an email from an old Paris friend telling me to check out a newly launched Google Street View…

Homage to the Man behind the Mountain

If you’re a seeker of the off-beat and the off-grid, you’ve probably come across Salvation Mountain on your internet or real-life travels. This ravishing burst of colour, a monument to hope, love and joy in the Colorado desert outside Niland, California, was built by one man over three decades, piece by piece. That man was…

Let’s Time Travel with Vintage Airline Luggage Labels

The weekend is nearly here, our minds are already traveling somewhere far away, so I thought what better moment than a Friday afternoon than to pour over some vintage travel memorabilia from the 1920s to the 1950s. We’ve already looked at the golden age of travel’s hotel luggage labels, hotel and restaurant matchbooks accumulated from across…

Ace Hotel: The Rising Hilton of Hipster Accommodation

Comparing them to the Hilton hotel chain is probably going against everything they stand for, but you see I’m kinda hoping this flourishing collection of hotels, “held together by an affinity for the soulful,” takes over the world! So here’s a few things you should know about ACE, the self-proclaimed friendly hotel… 1. They’ve just…

And now, Silk Scarves inspired by Vintage Fruit Wrappers

You might have seen me complaining on this website before about why food packaging doesn’t look like this anymore. Beautiful vintage food labels oozing with creativity, attractive typography and artistic design– it’s an increasingly lost art. But as it turns out, someone else also happens to enjoy the art of vintage food labelling so much…

Working Out with Marilyn Monroe

It’s pretty neat when you come across rare photos of one of the most iconic and recognisable faces in history, and it doesn’t get much more rare and interesting than Marilyn Monroe herself, lifting weights in a terry cloth bikini… Marilyn and her guns of steel were photographed here in 1952 by Philippe Halsman for LIFE magazine.…

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