In 1919, a handful of architects, designers and craftsmen started the Bauhaus design school in Germany to change the world. They wanted to modernize architecture and product design by stripping away old-fashioned ornamentation, streamlining
elegant design, and making
it...
“I will never understand the bathrooms in this country,” rants George Costanza in a 1995 episode of Seinfeld. “Why is it that the doors on the stalls do not come all the way down to the floor? We’re designing...
Quick! Roll up the Persian carpet. Hide the willow-pattern service. Sweep the wok and chopsticks under the Berber rug. Mr and Mx Virtue-Signaller from number 12 are on their way over for tea. How woke is your house? If...
After opening up a pop-up shop in the Natick Mall last holiday season, the Boston-based e-commerce giant opened its first physical location Wednesday.
NATICK — While Wayfair’s first full-service brick and mortar store at the Natick Mall lets customers see...
This past school year, the Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory supported a comprehensive, multischool physics project that served as a capstone project for high-school students. Seven schools in three school districts across the Los Angeles area participated,...
Robert Krulwich, co-host of WNYC’s RadioLab, uses the following contradiction to engage his audience:“When you unwrap it, break off a piece and stick it in your mouth, it doesn't remind you of the pyramids, a suspension bridge or a...
Foldable phones are here and there is no turning back, even if Samsung’s first attempt was a bit fragile. From Samsung and Huawei to LG and Xiaomi, everybody is racing to get the first foldable phone on the market.With...
In recent years, sellers have called the shots in homebuying negotiations. They’ve had plenty of leverage, too, thanks to surges in buyer demand, tight inventory and soaring home prices in many top markets around the...
