These beautiful butterflies are made by Australian artist Catherine Swan. Hand cut from vintage magazines, Catherine’s paper butterflies appear to be specimens from a nostalgic technicolour world perpetually fluttering between the 50s and 60s. Featuring powdery lilacs, candy pinks, baby blues and the same shade of orange you’d normally find in soft centre chocolates, these [...]

Good news: Polaroid is not completely gone! Urban Outfitters has partnered with The Impossible Project to support their mission to restart and reinvent instant film photography. When Polaroid ended production of Instant Film in 2008, The Impossible Project bought all the machinery and equipment at Polaroid’s Dutch factory where the instant films were made. [...]

I love this photo from photographer and Etsy seller Jane Heller. Jane is inspired by the nuances of everyday life, the small details that go unnoticed, light and shadow, humor and sadness and pretty much everything in between. You can purchase Jane’s beautiful photos from her Etsy shop.
(via More Ways to Waste Time)

Dwell Magazine recently featured the home of Parisian gallery director Didier Krzentowski. Didier’s house is filled with beautiful art. The installation in the image above is by artist Alan McCollum. The purple sofa is from Pierre Paulin and the Wire lamps are from Verner Panton. You can read the entire article here.
(image from Dwell [...]

If you are Amsterdam the very recently opened Hermitage museum is an interesting place to visit. The Hermitage is a first true satelite museum of the famous Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

The museum is located in the Amstelhof building, which used to be a care home for the elderly for over 300 years. The building was [...]

I love everything about the interior in the image above (which I found on Design*Sponge). The Eames chairs, combined with that wooden table, and especially that painting by Canadian artist Patricia Larsen.
(image by Kim Christie for Canadian House and Home)

I usually don’t post in weekends and although I have million things to do today, I had to post about this beautiful Christmas tree created by Jane. You might know Jane from a post I did a while ago about her shop All the Luck in the World. Jane: “The tree is made with (useless [...]

This is the kind of grafitti I like (via The Design Files)! More examples/images can be found here.

Fashion designer Lisa Perry is known for her bright colored and retro style fashion and accessories. You can see this signature style also in the interior design of her apartment in New York.

This loft is a mix of sixties fashion with Pop Art and vintage furniture. It is obvious that Lisa Perry is a Pop [...]

As many of you seem to be inspired by The Selby today some more images from this highly addictive website.

This is the New York City apartment from stylist and illustrator Cheri Messerli and graphic designer / musician David Rager.

(images from The Selby)