There’s nothing quite as thrilling as a major vintage find. I scored one back in 2008 — a cool armchair on the side of some road out by Princeton — and somehow manhandled it by myself into the back of ...

I have had this little needlepoint footstool for many years — it is sitting right here in my own living room at this very moment. I don’t use it much, but when my little great-grandsons come to visit, ...