Decor for President!
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Today, people. Today. It’s collective anxiety day. Don’t try to do anything. (Except, you know, vote.) Today is about distraction. So here are my favorite/funniest Schmatta posts to entertain you, all un-paywalled for your enjoyment.
This AI decorating tool turned my daughter into a giant butt plug
I have no explanation for this, but when “AI” became a buzzword over the past year, I immediately thought, instead of Artificial Intelligence: Asshole Indicator. Of course this is probably a subconscious association linked to my anxiety about AI replacing the humans who create media, thereby killing our industry and forcing us to become…I don’t even kno…
Just wow to these Y2K Pottery Barn plates
The time: It's the dawn of a new century. People are partying like it's 1999. Robbie Williams is still a thing. At midnight, all the computers might stop working. At the same time, the future is upon us, and the Sony Aibo is threatening to replace all actual real dogs. It is COMPLETE CHAOS.
Edith Wharton and Rich People With Bad Taste
If anyone knows rich people, it’s Edith Wharton. To start, she was one. Her father’s family (surname Jones) was said to be the “Joneses” you should be keeping up with. Second, pretty sure The Age of Innocence is the epitome of “write what you know.” And at age nine, Edith caught typhoid fever while on vacation with her family at a spa in the Black Fores…
10 Kids' Chairs by Iconic Designers
In writing this edition, I asked my husband to help me think of something funny to say about kids’ chairs. The 52-year-old man came up with the following:
'Each Peach Pear Plum' Was the OG Cottagecore Handbook
2020-2021 was a terrible year for culture, thanks largely to TikTok which imposed upon us a spate of fleeting, nonsensical trends: goblincore (?), dark academia (??), coastal grandma. But one trend emerged with at least some staying power: cottagecore, the aesthetic defined by prairie dresses, gingham motifs, “antiques,” anti-minimalism, and people acti…
An Exploration of Period Furniture
Let me be clear: Today’s post is not about period furniture, which generally refers to antiques of the Western world. Today’s post is about period — as in blood! — furniture.