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Fancy living in your very own Rapunzel tower less than an hour’s drive from Paris? Our Rapunzel in this case was Anne Boleyn – the first of Henry VIII’s wives to be beheaded – who lived...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/04/19/property-of-the-week-anne-boleyns-14th-century-french-home/

Even the most expensive VIP box seat at the Superbowl has nothing on this. Rewind to 1968 and we’re at the gilded Astrodome stadium in Houston, Texas. This luxurious and flamboyant stadium wa...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/02/09/the-guy-that-built-his-house-in-a-sports-stadium/

Let us take a look inside the classical grandeur and neo-romanticism that flows through the oeuvre of Emilio Terry. A maximalist from the school of more is most definitely more; Terry was an ar...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/02/02/the-enchanting-genius-of-a-quietly-forgotten-midcentury-maximalist/

Hit pause on reality for a moment and step into the fabulous shoes of a bohemian design diva whose life reads much like a fairy tale. With looks straight from the glossy pages of Vogue Italia; ...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/12/15/muse-du-jour-gabriella-crespi/

I came across some gorgeous vintage sinks on the gram and got to thinking about American bath ware. All too often overshadowed by Europe’s long history of artisanal and design talent, we forg...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/11/09/the-unsung-artistry-of-20th-century-american-bath-ware/

For some lucky theatregoers, a trip to see the latest B-Movie at their local picture house also means a trip across space and time. It’s all thanks to the atmospheric movie palaces and theatr...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/10/19/the-enchanted-cities-hiding-in-movie-theatres/

Imagine the sweet sound of a duet between Elton John and Frédéric Chopin, or a Van Gogh painting interpreted in song by David Bowie. What if the lyrics for a Fleetwood Mac verse or a Pink Flo...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/08/31/forget-versailles-tune-into-the-forgotten-chateau-that-became-frances-abbey-road/

It’s taken many names, shapes and forms over the centuries – the conversation chair, the courting bench, a tête-à-tête, a chaperone chair, the vis-à-vis, gossip chair or the indiscret. ...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/01/30/a-brief-compendium-of-the-conversation-chair/

Their’s is a love of strange and beautiful proportion. The kind measured in porcelain, peanut-sized dolls, and antiqued oysters as big as your face. “It’s hard to imagine a time when we�...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/09/12/digging-for-treasure-and-love-in-new-york-city/

If a French chateau is a little out of your vacation budget, why not consider a cave house? Unforgettably unique and even more historic, the “troglodyte” homes of France; those ancient rock...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/05/08/if-the-flinstones-vacationed-in-france-a-guide-to-the-cave-villages/

I gave three taps to the door with the ominous Egyptian door knob and timidly stepped inside number 18 Folgate Street in Spitalfields, London. Here, you can smell the past. You can see the du...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/09/30/chasing-ghosts-in-an-east-london-time-capsule/

This is your chance to relive the summer vacations of an icon– and hey, it’ll only cost you $85,000,000. Andy Warhol’s Montauk estate ↑, a 30-acre oceanfront compound with a historic ...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/08/13/summer-in-the-seventies-with-andy-warhol/

There was a time when these floating hotels that have rested on the lakes of Kashmir since the 1800s, were host to movie stars, artists, writers, famous musicians and wealthy western travellers...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/05/27/the-forgotten-houseboat-hotels-of-kashmir/

A stone’s throw from a medieval sea fortress in the heart of Morlaix Bay in Brittany, France, on a little rocky island with a 19th century lighthouse and a white and powder-blue cottage, your...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/03/27/borrow-a-private-lighthouse-island-for-the-price-of-a-bed-and-breakfast/

They might easily be mistaken for playhouses fit for a princess, like Marie Antoinette’s little hamlet houses at Versailles, but these pint-sized castles dotted around France were in fact des...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/07/11/the-french-castles-fit-for-a-pigeon-literally/

Airlines today just aren’t up for a good party anymore. Look at those fancy folks hanging out in comfy swivel chairs, ordering Martinis and asking attractive strangers, “So, do you come her...

https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/03/13/lets-reminisce-airplanes-piano-bars-cocktail-lounges-pubs-restaurants/