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01/09/2026

30 Days to go! ⏰ Two years after our little shop first appeared in the back streets of Paris, Messy Nessy’s Cabinet is stretching its legs, tripling its floor plan, and preparing to reveal a mysterious new world hiding just behind the curtain.

Messy Nessy’s Cabinet 2.0 opens to the public on October 1st. Let the countdown begin

01/09/2026

The Gibsons are my kind of family

The Gibsons are my kind of family. Papa John Gibson, a local seaman from Penzance, took his first photograph of a shipwreck in 1869 and from then on, he and his family were determined to be first on…

01/09/2026

“In this world where everything is banal and ugly, we must know how to create the beautiful and unusual.”

"In this world where everything is banal and ugly, we must know how to create the beautiful and unusual." These are the words of Jean Pierre Ponthieu, quite possibly the maddest French inventor of…

31/08/2026

Cast your eye over the creations of Jacques Griffe

Cast your eye over the creations of Jacques Griffe, and one can’t help but wonder why a designer so acutely gifted doesn’t also boast a couture legacy similar to that of many of his contemporaries.…

31/08/2026

Sometimes I get a little … well, bored with today’s celebrities.

Sometimes I get a little ... well, bored with today's celebrities. And then I start looking for a silver screen starlet to re-discover. With that unmistakable "one is not amused" sultry gaze and…

30/08/2026

An elixir of youth, a sexual stimulator and mental health cure all in one?

Artwork by Letters & Liquor The poet E.E Cummings once wrote of a "famous doctor who inserts monkey glands in millionaires" and in a pre-code Hollywood musical starring the Marx Brothers, they sang…

30/08/2026

Consider this your personal invite

Like they do at prom, the guests of the 1883 Vanderbilt fancy dress ball each had the opportunity to have their photo taken at the event of the year, or perhaps the century. All of New York's elite…

29/08/2026

Time for your internet tea break

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 778) - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy's

29/08/2026

Imagine popping out for groceries and running into The Doors frontman Jim Morrison or Canadian rocker Neil Young

Joni Mitchell photographed by Graham Nash, 1969. Imagine popping out for groceries and running into The Doors frontman Jim Morrison or Canadian rocker Neil Young, maybe scoring an invite to Joni…