The hush of evening falls as the day’s warm breeze brushes against you in the dimming light.
And there you sit, looking out into the dusk with a “nightcap” in hand, leisurely enjoying the last moments of the day. Ah,...
MAGICAL DESTINATIONS
We asked a few of our favorite authors to tell us about the most enchanted places they’ve ever been. This is what they came up with ...
As soon as you get there, you know you’re not in Kansas, anymore.
Istanbul...
Photography by Ulrike Klumpp
Deep in heart of southwest Germany’s Black Forest sits a picture-perfect little town named Baiersbronn. Surrounded by one of the most beautiful woodlands in all the world, a place of deep, dark wilds where spruce grow...
by CAROLYN TURGEON
Photography by STEVE PARKE
Our resident love witch Veronica Varlow calls the legendary Chelsea Hotel the most magical place in New York, a portal that for over a century has drawn the artists, the troubadours, the poets—and plenty...
Photography by Bryony Whistlecraft
Step into herbalist Ali English’s rural village home in Lincolnshire, England, and you might suspect you’ve been transported back in time. Heavy wood cabinetry filled to the brim with jars of herbs in an abundance of dusky...
Feature Image: Alphonse Mucha, The Nature, around 1900. Collection F. W. Neess, Photo- Museum Wiesbaden : Bernd Fickert
They come one after another, these treasures, nearly too many, too much, to absorb. There are the Rozenburg eggshell porcelain teapots, vases,...
Feature Image Photo by TAYLOR MOORE
If the central question of the Enlightenment was “How?” then the Romantics were distinguished by their “Why?”—their yearning to understand the self. In rebellion against the Age of Reason, the Romantics literally let their...
Photography by Ciaran McHugh
Have you ever loved a poem or story so much you wanted to make it real for yourself ? Actually place yourself in it?
I’ve loved William Butler Yeats since I was in seventh grade and happened...
MAGICAL DESTINATIONS
We asked a few of our favorite authors to tell us about the most enchanted places they’ve ever been. This is what they came up with ...
Sometimes the magic is almost too perilous to touch, and you come away...
Feature Image: Red House, Bexleyheath painted by Walter Crane. Wikimedia Commons.
Perhaps of all the words ever said by a Pre-Raphaelite, the most frequently repeated are William Morris’s: “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be...