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Can you describe your weekend occupations in a single word?

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The state before sleep, when the whole world has turned into Ghibli animation

NB! · Architecture · Heritage · Paris

Notre-Dame Is Still Not Entirely Free of Its Scaffolding

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Nadya Sheveleva's Hat in the Fendi Boutique

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Young man in a black sweatshirt at a window with rooftops behind him

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In case anyone has forgotten, this is Justin Trudeau in his youth, back when blacking up with boot polish for a masquerade had not yet been declared an unpardonable incantation

NB! · Aristocracy · Archive · People

Felix Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, at Different Periods of His Life

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Truck with two men in the cab against a large red panel

NB! · Archive · Art · Moscow

Moscow in 1982 through the lens of the celebrated German photographer Walter Schmitz, who repeatedly visited the USSR in search of inspiration

NB! · Archive · Moscow

Beloved Smolenka, 1982

Beloved Smolenka, 1982. Photo by Walter Schmitz

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Detail of a sculpture made of charred and brass violin parts

NB! · Art · Books · People

In the 1960s Tove Jansson illustrated the Finnish and Swedish editions of The Hobbit, and the result was some of the least canonical drawings ever made for Tolkien's universe