Mr. Donaldson declined to be interviewed. A representative for him declined to address the working conditions at his companies but said of the videos with offensive content: “When Jimmy was a teenager and was first starting out, he carelessly used, on more than one occasion, a gay slur. Jimmy knows there is no excuse for…
Christopher Carter regularly uses reclaimed lumber, faded rope, tarnished metal and other found materials to create his large-scale sculptures. So when the Miami-based artist needed a new studio and began dreaming of building a live-work space, he knew it would involve many repurposed components. What he didn’t realize was that it would eventually be the…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. A legacy of the pandemic — maybe a long one — is that our homes and offices are becoming the same. More than ever we look for versatility in furnishings, and design companies are stepping up…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. Artisans and designers, including Japanese temple builders, female silversmiths and African-American midcentury modernists, are rescued from obscurity (or simply appreciated from afar) in six insightful new books. More than 1,000 lustrous Victorian vessels appear in “Majolica…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. The latest home-related TikTok video to go viral begins with a woman’s voice patiently explaining that during the pandemic her husband turned their basement into … a video rental store. As she speaks, the camera pans…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. The first place David and Dorothy Measer looked during their long and frustrating search for a house in the country was the area around Sequoia National Park, near Bakersfield, Calif. It’s wild, rugged, real-deal countryside there,…
Most Greeks — who have endured months of lockdown — would agree with that sentiment, said Ms. Nakou, the analyst. “I think there is little alternative, to be honest, given the importance of the sector in the economy,” she said. But Ms. Nakou noted that Covid case numbers rose after the country’s opening to tourists…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. Rootless is how Billie Zangewa recalls much of her childhood, growing up in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana in the 1970s and ’80s. Her father was an engineer who helped build electrical power systems across southern Africa,…
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. Don’t call Travelers New Orleans a bed-and-breakfast. For one thing, there’s no breakfast (for now, anyway). For another, the phrase “conjures images of lace curtains and doilies,” said Ann Williams, who, with her mate, Chuck Rutledge,…
You know that raw overwhelm people have been reporting after months of a pandemic, compounded by economic issues and social unrest? Does fatigue and compulsive social media scrolling strike a familiar chord? Those brittle feelings offer us a glimpse into what regular life can be like for individuals with sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a biological…