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December 8, 2016 1:50 PM Subscribe
"Anyone in the area of the intersection between Bergsgatan and Almbacksgatan in the southern Swedish city should pay attention to where they walk: hidden at ground level lies a French nut store named 'Noix de Vie' selling a range of nuts for the city’s mice. Next door, an Italian restaurant called 'Il Topolino' has moved in, complete with a pin-sized menu attached to the wall detailing its range of cheese and crackers."
Stuart Litttle, Propr.
posted by Quindar Beep at 2:14 PM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Quindar Beep at 2:14 PM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
It reminds me of the fairy doors in Ann Arbor. I LOVE tiny adorable things like this. Thank you!
posted by angeline at 2:17 PM on December 8, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by angeline at 2:17 PM on December 8, 2016 [5 favorites]
they even got the utility box right xD
posted by Foci for Analysis at 2:28 PM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Foci for Analysis at 2:28 PM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Why can't we also have Noix things?
posted by srboisvert at 3:03 PM on December 8, 2016 [10 favorites]
posted by srboisvert at 3:03 PM on December 8, 2016 [10 favorites]
This is so precious, and exactly what my weary soul needed tonight - thanks for posting!
posted by Fig at 4:01 PM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Fig at 4:01 PM on December 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
So this is what happens if you sell a mouse a cookie. This is coming hot on the heels of me finding out "if you give a mouse a cookie" is a kid's book, after google's autocomplete suggested it, along with the weirdly Trumpian word-salad of "if you have hired a ghostwriter you agree you have construction site". The kid's book itself sounds weirdly Trumpian, too - it seems to be a mouse-based screed decyring the evils of welfare.
Or maybe it's just how you get mice.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:47 PM on December 8, 2016 [5 favorites]
Or maybe it's just how you get mice.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:47 PM on December 8, 2016 [5 favorites]
That story did not continue below.
posted by zamboni at 5:20 PM on December 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by zamboni at 5:20 PM on December 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
...slightly disappointed the little Brazilian flag is not in a Brazil nut.
posted by leotrotsky at 7:46 PM on December 8, 2016
posted by leotrotsky at 7:46 PM on December 8, 2016
Leotrotsky, that's possibly because Brazil nuts are known as paranuts in Northern Europe. I don't think many people here know that they're named for a Brazilian state.
posted by brokkr at 2:16 AM on December 9, 2016
posted by brokkr at 2:16 AM on December 9, 2016
It wasn't until I saw the wire bicycle that I was convinced this is an actual miniature. A little worried what happens when it snows.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:57 AM on December 9, 2016
posted by TWinbrook8 at 3:57 AM on December 9, 2016
Some updates from this morning: A visitor checks out the facilities, the restaurant gets a lussekatt delivery, and a club promotor notices an empty space...
posted by effbot at 5:25 AM on December 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by effbot at 5:25 AM on December 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
As a postscript, the installation was vandalized (*) just before new year's eve, after three weeks with lots of visitors and lots of media attention. The anonymouse artists have stated that they're working on a new project, to appear somewhere near you (if you're in Malmö, at least).
*) or maybe it was a gas explosion in the restaurant kitchen, as the artists suspect? Seems there was no cctv coverage at the time, unlike when the nut store had a murine visitor after closing hours.
posted by effbot at 7:00 PM on January 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
*) or maybe it was a gas explosion in the restaurant kitchen, as the artists suspect? Seems there was no cctv coverage at the time, unlike when the nut store had a murine visitor after closing hours.
posted by effbot at 7:00 PM on January 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
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