Step into the Picture...

Came across these antique German photographer backdrops (circa 1900) during a binge through the blogosphere... vast and beautiful.

Via here 

Hidden Archives

Sometimes, one comes across an image or collection that leaves one open-mouthed. This is one of those instances. Joanna Ebenstein (founder of the Morbid Anatomy Blog and Library) has made it her quest to seek out and document...

untouched, hidden, and curious collections, from museum store-rooms to private collections, cabinets of curiosity to dusty natural history museums, obscure medical museums to hidden archives... with an eye towards capturing the poetry, mystery and wonder of these liminal spaces. 

The result? A photographic exhibition called The Secret Museum...

Cabinet of Curiosities of Bonnier de la Mosson, Paris

Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands, Established 1778

Comparative Telegraph Cables, Teylers Museum

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection, London (private collection)

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

Tim Knox and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan Collection

More here

Exposed

Via here

Maria Grossman

Shades of teal, sea grey and black from It Remains of a Day by Maria Grosmann (in collaboration with Monika Schürle)...

All images via here

Up to the rafters

The Abbey Bookshop in Paris - I could so easily lose myself in here for a day...

Via here

Unrivaled...

Waif-ish and gorgeous. Kate Moss...

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5 Beekman

Apparently, the collective hearts of those in-the-know broke a little bit when hotelier Andre Balazs' deal to purchase decayed urban treasure 5 Beekman Street (just a block from City Hall) fell through early this year. But all are a twitter that a new joint venture partnership has purchased the building at a whopper of a price, and one of the partners is the owner of the Ace Hotel. Looks like all the finger crossing paid off...

 All photographs via here and ScoutingNY