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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."
(more photos, anonymouse creator's instagram)
(more photos, anonymouse creator's instagram)
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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