Decor for President!

Xanaxcore.

Nov 05, 2024

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Today, people. Today. It’s collective anxiety day. Don’t try to do anything. (Except, you know, vote.) Today is about distraction. So here are my favorite/funniest Schmatta posts to entertain you, all un-paywalled for your enjoyment.

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This AI decorating tool turned my daughter into a giant butt plug

Leonora Epstein

Mar 5

This AI decorating tool turned my daughter into a giant butt plug

I have no explanation for this, but when “AI” became a buzzword over the past year, I immediately thought, instead of Artificial Intelligence: Asshole Indicator. Of course this is probably a subconscious association linked to my anxiety about AI replacing the humans who create media, thereby killing our industry and forcing us to become…I don’t even kno…

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Just wow to these Y2K Pottery Barn plates

Leonora Epstein

April 20, 2023

Just wow to these Y2K Pottery Barn plates

The time: It's the dawn of a new century. People are partying like it's 1999. Robbie Williams is still a thing. At midnight, all the computers might stop working. At the same time, the future is upon us, and the Sony Aibo is threatening to replace all actual real dogs. It is COMPLETE CHAOS.

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Polly Pocket Was the OG Small Space Pioneer

Leonora Epstein

May 23

Polly Pocket Was the OG Small Space Pioneer

(via @vintagepollypocketlife)

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Edith Wharton and Rich People With Bad Taste

Leonora Epstein

May 13, 2023

Edith Wharton and Rich People With Bad Taste

If anyone knows rich people, it’s Edith Wharton. To start, she was one. Her father’s family (surname Jones) was said to be the “Joneses” you should be keeping up with. Second, pretty sure The Age of Innocence is the epitome of “write what you know.” And at age nine, Edith caught typhoid fever while on vacation with her family at a spa in the Black Fores…

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I like big bows and I cannot lie

Leonora Epstein

December 23, 2023

(Beata Heuman’s Xmas tree.)

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10 Kids' Chairs by Iconic Designers

Leonora Epstein

Apr 11

In writing this edition, I asked my husband to help me think of something funny to say about kids’ chairs. The 52-year-old man came up with the following:

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'Each Peach Pear Plum' Was the OG Cottagecore Handbook

Leonora Epstein

Jul 11

'Each Peach Pear Plum' Was the OG Cottagecore Handbook

2020-2021 was a terrible year for culture, thanks largely to TikTok which imposed upon us a spate of fleeting, nonsensical trends: goblincore (?), dark academia (??), coastal grandma. But one trend emerged with at least some staying power: cottagecore, the aesthetic defined by prairie dresses, gingham motifs, “antiques,” anti-minimalism, and people acti…

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An Exploration of Period Furniture

Leonora Epstein

Jun 28

Let me be clear: Today’s post is not about period furniture, which generally refers to antiques of the Western world. Today’s post is about period — as in blood! — furniture.

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Decor for President!

Xanaxcore.

This AI decorating tool turned my daughter into a giant butt plug

Just wow to these Y2K Pottery Barn plates

Polly Pocket Was the OG Small Space Pioneer

Edith Wharton and Rich People With Bad Taste

I like big bows and I cannot lie

10 Kids' Chairs by Iconic Designers

'Each Peach Pear Plum' Was the OG Cottagecore Handbook

An Exploration of Period Furniture

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