Nice Try's second season, Interior, is all about the lifestyle products that have been sold to us ov
On this season of Nice Try, we’ve asked why we bring certain goods into our homes. What kinds of uto
The bathroom is our most private room in our private homes, devoted to our most private business. An
Since industrialization, we have developed a convoluted set of cultural rules and etiquette around s
Fitness trends come and go. But the weight, about as low-tech and simple as it gets, is an anchor in
Countertop kitchen appliances—cookers that range from slow to fast—promise healthier, easier, better
One of the most intimate, necessary, and perhaps loathed activities of the home is cleaning. Who doe
The American dream of a suburban house with a white picket fence cordons off the home as a haven, se
Nice Try's second season, Interior, interrogates the lifestyle technologies and products that determ
Before she began writing for the New York Times, or visiting glitter factories and the Royal Wedding
What have all of the utopias we've covered so far had in common? They were all largely driven by the
In 1991, eight people embarked on a two-year experiment to create a completely enclosed, self-sustai
In 1938, Hitler’s chief architect Albert Speer started redesigning Berlin for a New Order, elements
The Oneida Community was founded in upstate New York in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes, a former theolo
Suburban developments built in the 1950s were idyllic communities and gave many people their first o
Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commis
Most people today know the story of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, fr
Explore the hidden stories behind how we design the world we live in, and what we can learn when tho
