I’m on the record as a West Elm skeptic. I’ve been writing about furniture for four years and obsessing over it for longer, and in that time, I’ve found that the home company’s couches are not ...

According to the group of teens we recently polled about what is cool to buy these days, cottagecore — which we’ve described as “a back-to-the-land aesthetic that peddles in picnics, frilly dresses, ...