1. Captivating pre-war Still Life works of this lesser-known French photographer Eperlans, 1935. Satin et plumes, 1933. La poire coupée, 1930. Lingerie, 1935. Ananas, 1930. Rosée, 1929. Prismes, circa 1940. Epi de blé, 1930. Château de cartes, 1928. Louis-Victor-Emmanu| Messy Nessy Chic
1. This is Japan’s Answer to Playboy magazine: weekly animal themed erotica! Find more on the Casual Archivist, found via Present & Correct.| Messy Nessy Chic
Celebrating all things French and Parisian for our special Bastille Day edition of weekly distractions… 1. Paris Is A Woman’s Town, 1929 Cover art for Paris is a Woman’s Town, by Helen Josephy and Mary Margaret McBride (1929), published as a guidebook aimed at American women traveling to Paris. A chapter on daytime fun starts with 5 pages…| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Word of the day: Xylarium – Library of Wood This one is in Canberra, it has 47000 samples. Found on Present & Correct. 2. Couldn't think of a better way to beautify blank walls: French artist Mantra paints photo-realistic murals that look like mass| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Summer restaurant goals Chef Dean Baldwin Lew was looking to host a dinner of an invasive species. The Ministry of Natural Resources told him that it was illegal to carry the Rusty Crawfish over land as a single pregnant animal could extend the population to another watershed. His only option to cook & serve…| Messy Nessy Chic
1. This used to be the richest silver mine in the world Silver Islet refers to both a small rocky island and a small community located at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada. A rich vein of pure silver was discovered on this small island in 1868 by the Montreal Min| Messy Nessy Chic
Brooklyn’s Fulton Street Mall is a treasure trove for the urban explorer. At first glance, the shopping precinct of some two hundred stores in downtown Brooklyn looks like it has seen better days. Low rent retail, cheap costume jewellery, mobile phone accessories, knock off perfume and factory outlets crowd sidewalks filled with street vendors. Many…| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Various types of dormers (lucarnes in French); windows that project vertically from a sloping roof Here you'll find a breakdown in English of each dormer type presented, highlighting the architectural forms and features of each dormer type. 2. Su Nuraxi: Sardinia’s Prehistoric Ston| Messy Nessy Chic
1. This Troglodyte House for Sale in France The valley, south of Tours, is classified as a Natural Area of Ecological Interest for Flora and Fauna (known as ZNIEFF for Zone Naturelle d’Intérêt Ecologique, Faunistique et Floristique). Six kilometres long, it constitutes a reserve with an outstanding diversity. Occupied since the Prehistoric era, it still…| Messy Nessy Chic
1. People Watching at the Louvre From the archives of Brazilian photographer Alécio de Andrade Archives. 2. Jim Morrison's bust found nearly 40 years after it was stolen from Paris cemetery Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison tha| Messy Nessy Chic
1. The gargoyle at Giusti Garden in Verona The dramatic cypress avenue leads to a cave full of stalactites and subsequently to Palazzo Giusti. Created at the end of the fifteenth century by a knight of the Venetian republic. Talk about taking a grotto to another level.| Messy Nessy Chic
An unlikely superhero spy; a bookish art historian in a paisley print dress, posing rather meekly beside her inventory of valuable museum works. But behind the innocent smile and the matronly garb, Rose Antonia Maria Valland was a lone female agent of espionage who, during WW2, tirelessly and valiantly put her life on the line for…| Messy Nessy Chic
For every piece of beautiful art hanging in a distinguished gallery, imagine the countless of others that never quite made it. Picture an artist approaching their easel with the high hopes of creating a masterpiece, but with every brush stroke comes the sinking feeling that its not coming out quite as good as they hoped;…| Messy Nessy Chic
1. The House that Madness Built In the tidy Westphalian town of Lemgo, Germany, where the gabled houses wear their history with restrained Protestant pride, there stands a house that seems to have wandered in from another reality. It is a house made of wood, and also of something more difficult to name—delirium, perhaps, or…| Messy Nessy Chic
1. For Sale: Portobello Road’s Most Famous Antiques Shop & the Home Upstairs Property for sale on Knight Frank. 2.| Messy Nessy Chic
1. A Ravishing Radish Hat And other wonderful creations by Rebecca Gardner. 2. Penitentes en Cuenca (Penitents in Cuenca) by José Ortiz Echagüe, 1940 a lay confraternity of Spanish-American Roman Catholic men active in Northern and Central New Mexico and southern Colorado.| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Pure inspiration: Mixed media by artist & collector Nina Garner Nina is a collector. Inspired by 19th century portrait and landscape photography, her work encompasses various techniques and materials to create compositions that glorify moments in time, the beaut| Messy Nessy Chic
© Luke J Spencer Whilst looking recently at an old nautical map of the North Shore coastline of Massachusetts, one tiny island caught our eye because of its mysterious sounding name: Great Misery Island! Further inspection of the map showed that the island had no towns, roads or any other topogra| Messy Nessy Chic
There's something in the window of my boutique on Paris' Left Bank that has been stopping wanderers in their tracks. It's that mesmerising shade of deep Prussian blue, the result of a 19th-century photographic process known as cyanotype, once favoured by Victorian botanists and early female pioneers| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Currently lusting after these 3D animal portraits: Immediately must have these at the Cabinet. Stay tuned. See more of the artist's work here. Found while browsing this incredible home in India on AD Magazine. 2. French Kissing by Edouard Boubat Lovers on Ile Saint Louis| Messy Nessy Chic
Forget your standard 19th-century dinner parties, where everyone sat around sipping sherry and discussing the weather. If you were lucky enough to snag an invite to Charles Babbage’s Saturday night scientific soirées, you were in for a wild ride through the brainiest and most bizarre conversations t| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Meet one of the world's most prolific chair collectors: How Noritsugu Oda found himself sitting on 1,400 chairs. Over 50 years, the Japanese illustrator has accumulated a world-class archive. Now he has to decide what to do with it. "He still remembers the day in 1972 when| Messy Nessy Chic
1. An antique railway car miniature made by a retired French postman A wooden-framed railway car is finished with tinted straw in decorative manner to create wall murals, carpets, inlay furnishings, and walls in the interior, and slatted boards and window frames on the exterior. When opened,| Messy Nessy Chic
Aloïse Corbaz lived a life outside the margins. Institutionalised, alone, and without any training, her deeply individual artworks were both a product of and a comment on her struggles with mental illness. Within the walls of a Swiss asylum in early 20th century, Corbaz was extremely prolific. She u| Messy Nessy Chic
The original Olympic games got cancelled for 1500 years because ... well ... everyone was naked. The Ancient Greek Olympic Games, held from 776 BC to 393 AD, so that's nearly 10 times longer than the modern Olympics have been running (since 1896), were celebrated almost entirely in the nude. While| Messy Nessy Chic
1. For sale: the only private island in the San Francisco Bay Red Rock Island was a site for manganese mining, and abandoned mining tunnels still exist, along with the coast guard’s old fog bell. Otherwise, the private island is undeveloped. The islet has been used as the Alaskan selle| Messy Nessy Chic
Nativa Richard posing as Empress, 1920s The Années Folles in Paris — a time for jazz, literature of the Lost Generation, and a little-known fetish fashion boom. Spearheaded by a husband and wife team largely forgotten by history, Nativa Richard and her husband L. Richard, were the dynamic duo beh| Messy Nessy Chic
1. Fellini's Forgotten Masterpiece Donyale Luna as Oenothea in Fellini Satyricon, 1969 Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Im| Messy Nessy Chic
A grandstand at Herne Hill Velodrome, South London with a painted sign commemorating the stand’s construction for the 1948 Olympic Games. © Historic England Archive As the countdown for the Paris Summer Olympics has begun and the excitement for the international extravaganza of athletic prowess m| Messy Nessy Chic
1. The Empty Louvre Paul Almásy, a Hungarian photojournalist who immigrated to France in 1934. Almásy’s photograph was taken at the Louvre Museum in Paris, articulating the theme of artworks needing to be remembered by documenting an actual historical event. In 1938 with the threat of war loo| Messy Nessy Chic
1. The oldest functioning planetarium in the world © Isabel Bronts © Isabel Bronts Hidden behind a pocket-sized door in a doll's house-like building in the sleepy Dutch town of Franeker is a room so unique that even a King was star-struck. Explore the extraordinary world created by wool w| Messy Nessy Chic
