Furniture
April 3, 2018

Designers Custom-Build Luxury Lounge Room for Fancy Felines

While most pet owners know that cats can make themselves at home almost anywhere, many would argue that our feline friends are worthy of luxury accommodation. Today, modern cat furniture is more popular than ever. So much so that there’s even an interior design term for the genre in circulation: catitecture. One design firm to embrace the trend is Taiwan-based INDOT, who designed a modern kitty lounge for a family home.

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Landscape Photography
April 3, 2018

Gorgeous Candy Colored Infrared Photos of the Snowy Dolomite Mountains

Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani, known for his infrared landscapes, is back with a new series of pink-hued photos. After his photos of New York, he tackles a space closer to home—Italy's Dolomite mountains. Proving once again why the infrared technique is one of our favorite types of photography, he turns the natural world into a candy-colored dream.

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Architecture
April 2, 2018

Archeologist Spends Over 35 Years Building Enormous Scale Model of Ancient Rome

Tucked in the residential Roman neighborhood of EUR, a sprawling 1:250 scale model displays the glory of ancient Rome. Known as the Plastico di Roma Imperiale, the plaster model was commissioned by Mussolini in 1933 and depicts Rome in the 4th century AD at the time of Constantine I. It now sits in the Museum of Roman Civilization, a museum opened in the 1930s to demonstrate the history of ancient Rome.

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Art History
April 1, 2018

How Museums Evolved Over Time From Private Collections to Modern Institutions

The Cabinet of Curiosities In the 16th century, collectors built upon this desire to display objects by creating Kunstkammer, or cabinets of curiosities. Much like Princess Ennigaldi's organized treasure trove, these rooms were dedicated to housing unique artifacts. Unlike her hoard of Mesopotamian antiquities, however, the collections exhibited in cabinets of curiosities were often eclectic and encyclopedic in nature, ranging from natural history specimens and scientific wonders to works of art and religious relics.

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My Modern Met

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