Who doesn't feel the pull of a walled-off space - the need to get in there and find out what's going on? A secret garden is romantic.

Illustration by Artus Scheiner for Lustige Blätter (1901)

Cooking—it’s that optional thing that we do when we don’t want to look like lazy good-for-nothings eating cheese and salami straight out of the pack and munching on raw vegetables instead of making a salad. Even cavemen and barbarians were able to cook things well. But even with the help of modern technology, we sometimes end up absolutely butchering our meals and making mega cooking fails.

D'you ever find yourself . . . just not reading? For weeks? Or months? Maybe years? I have gone through long-term reading slumps that have made me ashamed

These require an explanation.

Up till about a week before my wedding I would have sworn up and down that I was going to wear a veil. I had so many reasons, including the Jewish idea that when you wear a veil, the spirits of all your decedents walk down the aisle with you. (Beautiful right?) Also, I really like Read more...

Martina Mondadori Sartogo, founder of the obsessively cool design magazine Cabana, is in Houston this month for Texas Design Week. Here, she talks all

Detail of a gravestone, St Peter’s church, Heysham, Lancashire (via here)

14 Cursed Images That'll Make Your Dark Soul Cringe - The internet has generated a huge amount of laughs from cats and FAILS. And we all out of cats.

Persephone is one of the most important goddesses in ancient Greco-Roman mythology. Her story is a timeless tale that has been retold many times over. It's about love, it's about death, and it's also about

Fosse… anche l’unico canto libero di Ophelia lasciami sfumare così infiorata di mia follia in assolo del fato che mi trascina via... ~ Catherine La Rose© ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser was a German painter from Gnoien/Dresden. He began studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Pohle and Paul Mohn. After initially spending three years in Dresden, he attended the Kunsthochschule in Karlsruhe and then the Académie Julian in Paris. After completing his studies Heyser devoted himself mainly to portraits and historical paintings. Among the portrayed were numerous prominent figures such as Prince Regent Albrecht of Braunschweig, Prince Albrecht of Prussia and Prince Johann Georg of Saxony. In addition, Heyser created genre pictures, whose representations were based on German poetry, for example, "The Fisherman" after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886).

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© Robert Doisneau If you were living in Paris during the years that followed World War II and liked to party, you'd better have known Boris Vian. In 1950, he wrote the original guidebook to bohemian Paris and pioneered a movement which brought back the city's "joie de vivre" that had been lost du

These illuminating images show the crumbling remains of some of the worlds places of worship. The shots include golden chapels, overgrown synagogues and eerily

Picnic At Hanging Rock Style Inspiration With the recent airing of Foxtel’s ‘Picnic At Hanging Rock'- that boasted a deeper, darker, sexier approach to the original,...

Auguste Toulmouche’s 1866 painting “The Hesitant Fiancée” is making the rounds on TikTok FYPs across the globe, inviting women of all ages to not only marvel at and meme-ify the bride’s pissed off scowl, but see themselves in it, too.

A relationship expert weighs in on second chances.

The great and terrible Paul Rumsey

The Other Side, Dean Cornwell, 1918