For wine enthusiasts, a good vintage is only a good vintage if served properly; that means it’s been stored at the perfect temperature and, depending on the grape, given ample opportunity to aerate. Few of us, obviously, have personal wine cellars under our homes naturally kept at prime temperatures, so today’s roundup of wine refrigerators takes some of the guesswork out of the storage process and offers a host of options for collections vast and
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There’s something so sleek about today’s roundup of modern showers, it’s almost eerie. The unyielding gleam of these glass and metal fixtures is clinically clean to the point of looking as if we’re somehow peering into the future. Never mind the fact that their ability to deliver stellar water pressure is likely unmatched by most of their less elegant contemporaries; half their job is completed, really, by the sheer fact that standing underneath one makes
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Dog days at the office can sometimes get a little long, and thankless desk jobs — not to mention the desk chairs that come with them — can do a number on the spine. Ergonomic chairs have practically become de rigueur of late, but let’s face it: not all back-friendly office furniture is exactly handsome to look at. Today’s roundup of chiropractor-approved seats, however, keeps it fresh without bringing the pain. There’s the ubiquitous Eames
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Gone are the days of harsh overhead lighting (remember the kitchen in your childhood home?) that made everyone underneath it look gaunt, sick and haunted. As more and more homes and offices alike are retrofitted with modern light fixtures, a wildly inventive naturalist streak is becoming more widely available across the — forgive us — spectrum of hanging lights on the market. While the Comet lamp, pictured here, gives us an unbridled burst of illumination
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If we spend a third of our lives asleep, it stands to reason that our beds should be pretty grand. While canopy beds these days are far less necessary than they were upon invention, when they protected their inhabitants from the elements infiltrating the thatched roofs under which they lived, or during their heyday in medieval Europe when they began featuring curtains drawn for privacy from servants sleeping in the same room, they still evoke
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