Category Archives: Places
Places: Lamorna
The Cornish village where writer and artist Ithell Colquhoun lived and worked (and died)
Places: Lamorna
The Cornish village where writer and artist Ithell Colquhoun lived and worked (and died)
Places: Sissi and Fanny’s Corfu
The adjacent hillside retreats of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and “bohemian countess” Franziska zu Reventlow
Places: Sissi and Fanny’s Corfu
The adjacent hillside retreats of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and “bohemian countess” Franziska zu Reventlow
Places: Nevill Holt
The birthplace and childhood home of Nancy Cunard
Places: a Turin trinity
A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.
Places: a Turin trinity
A stroll through good and evil, light and shadow, life and death, genius and madness, heaven and hell.
Places: (a bit of) Gustav Meyrink’s Prague
Three stations in the writer’s early life
Places: Muskauer Park
A visit to the estate of Romantic-era polymath Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Places: Architektenhaus
A major pre-Dada event, 100 years ago today
Places: Crowley’s Berlin
The Great Beast witnesses the Weimar twilight
Places: Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center
The siblings travel to Athens in search of the glory that was (and is) Greece
Places: Isadora and Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center
The siblings travel to Athens in search of the glory that was (and is) Greece
Places: Clifton
In search of the Reverend Montague Summers
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Places: Casa Grande
100 years since the death of artist and lifestyle pioneer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach
Places: Nollendorfplatz
The birth of arthouse cinema, 100 years ago today
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Places: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
The centenary of a Parisian instution and its most famous performance…
Places: Quinta da Regaleira
It is the hill-hugging grounds which make this place so special. Stepping through the ornate portal, visitors find themselves in a miraculous micronation of evocative follies, a garden refuge out of the dream of a precocious child.
Places: Quinta da Regaleira
It is the hill-hugging grounds which make this place so special. Stepping through the ornate portal, visitors find themselves in a miraculous micronation of evocative follies, a garden refuge out of the dream of a precocious child.
Places: Schleißheim
Complaining about the lack of conventional narrative in Last Year at Marienbad is like standing in front of a Pollock and asking where the basket of fruit is.
Places: Schleißheim
Complaining about the lack of conventional narrative in Last Year at Marienbad is like standing in front of a Pollock and asking where the basket of fruit is.
Places: 1466 N Kings Road
If you’re quick (and rich, and ready to resettle) you can pick up one of the most illustrious settings in the history of experimental film, the location of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon.
Places: 1466 N Kings Road
If you’re quick (and rich, and ready to resettle) you can pick up one of the most illustrious settings in the history of experimental film, the location of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon.
Places: Grand Hotel et des Palmes
There is something weirdly moving about this meticulous list of drugs with names like Saturnian moons (“Phanodorme”, “Veronidin”, “Sonéryl”), recorded along with their effects (“slept 12¼ hours”, “euphoria all day”, “confused euphoria”).
Places: Grand Hotel et des Palmes
There is something weirdly moving about this meticulous list of drugs with names like Saturnian moons (“Phanodorme”, “Veronidin”, “Sonéryl”), recorded along with their effects (“slept 12¼ hours”, “euphoria all day”, “confused euphoria”).
Places: Palais Rose, Le Vésinet
Montesquiou first laid eyes on the house in 1908 and announced that he would die if it were not his the following day. Well, it took two days to secure a sale agreement but the silly old drama queen somehow managed to cling to life.
Places: Palais Rose, Le Vésinet
Montesquiou first laid eyes on the house in 1908 and announced that he would die if it were not his the following day. Well, it took two days to secure a sale agreement but the silly old drama queen somehow managed to cling to life.
