1. This incredible artist chess set By Artist Rachel Whiteread. Sold at Christie’s in 2019 for 10,000 GBP. 2. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. A mid-19th-century French watch bottle (circa 1850) Represents a luxurious, functional accessory blending horology and jewellery, likely created for the European market or high-end export. It typically features a miniature watch movement encased in azure blue enamel, decorated with seed pearls, and housed in a fitted red shell-shaped leather case. Found on the Decorative… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Name that aesthetic: Domino Paper (for those of us who find as much joy in a book’s “clothing” as its contents) The forerunner of wallpaper, domino paper achieved its golden age in the second half of the 18th century. It took the form a 36X45cm sheet of paper that was printed using engraved wood-blocks… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. How Marc Chagall made the Paris Opera House Fresco Ceiling in the summer of 1964 (and should it be kept there?) On August 7, 1964, inside Hangar Y, (formerly the Chalais Meudon site where the world’s first airship hangar was built in the 1870s and is now an excellent art & culture museum in the… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. A Parisian apartment frozen in time with floor to ceiling cinema posters Inside the 400m2 home of a French doctor who was crazy about cinema. His walls that tell a lifetime of passion for cinema, every room is an archive, every wall a memory, Discovered and shared by vintage film poster restorer, Arthur Fouasse.… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. A Behind the scenes look into the sketchbook of a medieval book illuminator Aren’t these incredible? Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a fifteenth-century monk working in South-West Germany, where ideas and layouts for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Mistletoe sellers in Paris, 1928 Found here. 2. Collecting Modernist Mailboxes in Paris Photographed by Romain Laprade. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting A very interesting read for anyone who loves curiosity cabinets: In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. An ode to Shopfronts (shot in the early 80s) Scans from the vintage book “Shopfronts”, 1981, found by Press SF. 2. Some thoughts on Personal Business that obviously resonated with me “In You’ve Got Mail, Kathleen Kelly is positioned as virtuous but naive, a hopeless romantic stuck in the old way of doing things. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. The hidden worlds hiding inside Curtis Talwst Santiago’s jewelry boxes Canadian-Trinidadian artist Curtis Talwst Santiago uses reclaimed jewelry boxes as tiny stages for his elaborate miniature dioramas, which are part of his continuing “Infinity Series”. These meticulously built scenes—complete with lush plants, architectural details, and minuscule figures—are dense with narratives of home, intimacy, diasporic… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Who is the countess living in the Port of Missing Men? On the edge of Scallop Pond in Southampton, an 85-year-old noble holds court in a hunting lodge dating to the Jazz Age that she is determined to protect. Photographs by Thomas Loof. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Movie Posters as Embroideries by French artist Emily Beer Discover more of her work here. 2. A charming archive of church kneeling cushions It’s an instagram account you can follow. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. A Collection of Antique Hold-To-Light Postcards: something to look out for at your next flea market Each of the cards have been intricately “carved” out and painted with bright colors allowing those areas to glow when held up to the light, the thicker parts of the paper don’t let any light through. All of… Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Kindred Spirits Found on Anonymous Works. 2. A most beautiful story about the Couple who Lives on the Last Ellis Island Ferry Boat 3. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

1. Forgotten Victorian hobby: seaweed herbariums bound in scallop shells View this post on Instagram A post shared by @templeofleaves Found one for sale here. 2. Continue reading at the publisher's website.