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We do love a good plunge into worlds apart – filled with secret society conspiracies and folks living off-grid or on the fringes of society. The latest curious collective to pique my interest...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/09/06/mostly-this-secret-masonic-order-just-wants-to-have-fun/
1. This excellent Twitter (X) thread about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that peopl...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/09/02/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-708/
1. A new hotel in Rome designed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name The Palazzo Talìa is 26 rooms and the Challengers director designed its public spaces and one of its suites...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/08/26/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-707/
1. The marbelised “Literatur” passageway in the Museumsquartier in Vienna Free to wander through, the mural (painted by Austrian artist Johanna Kandl) is inspired by the marbled endpapers u...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/07/29/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-706/
1. The oldest functioning planetarium in the world 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 ...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/07/22/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-705/
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...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/07/15/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-704/
1. Fellini’s Forgotten Masterpiece Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius’s work Satyric...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/07/08/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-703/
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 artwork...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/07/01/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-702/
1. I did a breakfast podcast with the Earful Tower And I’m now known, according to the brilliant Oliver Gee, as the woman selling the Seine River. You can listen to the episode of our chat di...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/06/24/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-701/
You name an avant-garde brand of note – Saint Laurent, Rick Owens, Moschino, Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, Jacquemus – and chances are they’ve been overtly influenced by a shoe desi...
In Physiopolis, life was better in the buff. Or at least in a bikini, which was as close as one could legally get to public nudity in 1930s Paris. It was here, on an isolated sun-baked island o...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/05/10/wet-hot-parisian-summer-a-lost-1930s-nudist-utopia/
For a few Spring months in 1954, a melancholy Picasso found himself enraptured by 19-year-old Sylvette David. Of all the muses who bookmarked his life — and there were many — she’s fallen...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/08/21/what-happened-to-picassos-forgotten-teenage-muse/
There’s a curious expression used in Provence by pétanque players. “Embrasser Fanny” or to “kiss Fanny”, is a small recompense for making a fool of oneself to put it simply. But wher...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/05/12/the-art-of-kissing-fanny/
Last night I was standing at the counter of our local café on Boulevard Saint Germain, finishing off a last glass of wine after work before heading home for the evening, when I noticed somet...
I had been curious about what was behind the door of No. 6 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in Saint Germain for quite a while before I decided to Google it, half expecting to be disappointed by news that it...
https://www.messynessychic.com/2016/10/13/inside-a-time-capsule-fencing-club-of-paris/
I came across these curious photographs from the French National library, dated to 1932 and labelled, “École d’aviation sur le toit des Galeries Lafayette” – Aviation school on the ...