In a phone interview on Monday, Ante, 31, who lives near Stuttgart, Germany, and works in I.T., said he and his fiancée, 26, were perplexed and saddened after his proposal was waylaid. “Disneyland stands for dreams,” he said. “Our moment was destroyed.” He said that he had been planning the proposal since Christmas, when his…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Can high design reverse Murano’s decline? Could one transcendent lamp, or a single game-changing wine goblet, or a fruit bowl created on the Venetian island by one of today’s top designers restore the reputation of this glassmaking capital, whose legacy for…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Success in the design business can depend more on image than on product. High-quality furniture and fabrics can set a company apart, but if they are sold with a good story, that is even better. So maybe it is not a…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Combining features of Brutalist architecture with the transcendent experience of houses of worship, Divine Inspiration is a series of six new lighting collections by the British product and interior designer Lee Broom. On view through June 12 at Blindarte, a gallery…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Three years ago, when the over-the-top décor style called “maximalism” had reached dizzy heights and the word “pandemic” was on almost no one’s lips, Sam Baron envisioned a wildly exuberant trio of rugs. Mr. Baron, 46, a French designer, had been…
This article is part of our Design special report previewing 2022 Milan Design Week. Maria Porro, the president of Salone del Mobile, represents a break from her predecessors. She is the first woman to run the event, which is known in English as the Milan Furniture Fair, and at 38, she is bringing a much…
In the last few years the comedian Mike Birbiglia has emerged as a kind of spokesman for the virtues of punctuality. In a Netflix special, “Thank God for Jokes,” he asks the audience members to clap if “you’re a late person.” Amid the applause, he says, “What late people don’t understand about us on-time people…
As the popularity of CurlyNikki.com grew, Ms. Walton started making guest appearances on “The Tyra Banks Show,” “The Dr. Oz Show” and “Today.” In 2011, she left her job as a psychotherapist in Raleigh, N.C., where she had been working with Medicaid patients, to focus on her site. Things kept picking up — meetings with…
Pride month got off to a fashionable start on Wednesday, when Coach hosted a rainbow-hued party at the Monster, a venerable gay bar across the street from the Stonewall Inn. Saucy Santana performed before a youthful crowd that included Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster and Tommy Dorfman. Also that night, the Guggenheim held a party…
Kelsey O’Hagan first heard about the Gerber Photo Search from a nurse at a doctor’s appointment for her now-12-month-old son, Everett. “She said, ‘Oh my god, you have to submit him, he’s so cute, he’s got such a good personality, and you could win $25,000,’” said Ms. O’Hagan, a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother from Methuen, Mass.…