As is traditional, the new President and First-Lady receive an allowance of $100,000 to redecorate their private quarters in the white house. This money comes from American tax dollars, i.e. yours and mine. In a time when we are all having to get creative financially and everyone is learning the value of saving and being . . .

Relieve stress in the Relief Chair, newly designed by Mickus Projects and currently on display in Cooper Hewitt’s  “Fashioning Flt” exhibit. Resting on stainless steel legs are layers of wool felt sheets adhered to each other and sleeved over an internal steel frame. Scraps of felt left over from the fabrication process are reused in . . .