Shopping for Settees

What to do when you want more than the single seat offered by chair, but you haven’t got room for a sofa? Consider a settee. Unlike a deep sofa that you sink into, a settee is usually lighter and leggier. That means it can squeeze into any number of spaces. “A settee is essentially a…

The Quest to Make Submarines More Affordable

On the protected southern coast of Curaçao, a tropical island in the Leeward Antilles 40 miles north of Venezuela, sits a massive, Cold War-era Dutch naval ship, housing something remarkable. The boat serves as the Caribbean outpost of U-Boat Worx, a builder of personal submarines based in the Netherlands, which hopes to bring its underwater…