Erotic Cameos From After The Reign Of Tiberius, Published In The 1770s
In 1775, when the Marquis de Sade travelled to Italy at the age of thirty-five, he had yet to write his libertine Justine or the...
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Thomas Edison’s Creepy Talking Doll Sounds As Scary As It Looks
You already know Thomas Edison, the famed inventor that gave us important innovations such as the phonograph and the light bulb. In...
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The Beautiful And Gruesome Porcelain Dolls Created By Jessica Harrison
I'm a little late to the party but I'm a big fan of Jessica Harrison's take on the traditional porcelain doll. We've all seen them....
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Morocco’s Ancient Granaries: One Of The World's Oldest Banking Systems.
According to historians, the Igudar granaries in Morocco are the world’s oldest bank, going back as far as the 13th century. Some...
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Charles Rolls And Henry Royce Walk Into A Bar
They couldn’t have been more different: Henry Royce was just nine years old when his impoverished father died in an English workhouse. By...
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Charles Baker, The Little-Known Inventor of The First Friction Radiator
Born into slavery in Savannah, Missouri on August 3, 1859, and was raised by his father with the help of a plantation owner’s wife after...
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The Erotic Alphabet of 1880
Learning your ABCs and working out what each letter stood for became simpler thanks to French artist Joseph Apoux (1846-1910). In 1880,...
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The World’s First Pocket Record Player: The 1924 Mikiphone
The Mikiphone pocket phonograph was designed by Hungarian brothers Miklós and Étienne Vadász, and mass produced under licence by Masison...
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Schlörwagen: The Bizarre German Car That Was Super-Aerodynamic But Super Impractical
The 1930s was a defining decade for automotive design, during which time the car evolved from its horse-drawn ancestry into an integrally...
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Inconvenient Household Items Designed by Katerina Kamprani, Collectively Called 'The Uncomfortable'
The Uncomfortable is a series of impractical household objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. The infuriating works play...
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The 'Monowheel' - An Invention That Didn't Catch On
Between the 1860s and 1930s, the monowheel (also referred to as a monocycle) was frequently suggested as a serious new form of...
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A Sculpture That Doubles As A Handrail
Public art is a wonderful way to help passersby engage with their environment. It adds a layer of interest and whimsy to busy public...
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The Murder Of Maurizio Gucci
A scion of the Italian fashion empire, on the face of it, Maurizio Gucci had it all. He was raised in luxury that would eventually take...
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Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971)
In 1971, Dutch artists, photographers and graphic designers Ed van der Elsken, Anna Beeke, Pieter Brattinga, Anthony Beeke, and Geert...
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Spend A Little Time With Beautiful Lifts From Around The World
From the mid-1920s up until World War II, Art Deco in art and design gained global popularity. Originating in Europe and America, the...
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Analogue 'GPS' From The 1920s and 1930s
Long before the days of celebrity voices calling out directions while you drive, paper-based attempts at mobile mapping generated an...
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The David Weingarten Collection of 20th-Century Souvenir Buildings
The David Weingarten Collection of 20th Century Souvenir Buildings comprises more than 3,000 three-dimensional miniatures of actual...
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These Volkswagen Beetles Converted Into “Bug Campers”
Volkswagen Beetles have skittered across roads since the 1930’s – but in the 1970s, a company transformed these iconic cars into adorable...
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Fantich & Young’s Creepy Shoes with Human Teeth
A bit of bling in your teeth never hurt anyone. But shoes with human teeth as soles? That’s some crazy stuff if someone starts kicking....
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A 'Man Amplifier' By Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories
The 1966 book Bionics: Nature's Ways for Man's Machines by Robert Wells has some great pictures of the "Man-Amplifier." Cornell...
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The Lamborghini Countach Limousine, A Crime Against Humanity?
Built by Ultra Limousines, the California Countach was a glassfibre replica that measured a whopping 5710mm long, which was around 1500mm...
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Adhesive Bras: The Stick-On Bra Swimsuit That Never Caught On.
In May 1949, Charles L. Langs announced a daring innovation in beachwear: a pair of bra cups a woman could affix to her breasts with an...
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Polish Posters Of Classic Films Are Next-Level Beautiful
You may well have noticed that these days a lot of film posters look the same and every genre seems to have its own visual stylistic...
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