This good idea

The Standard Grill in the Standard Hotel New York sports a floor tiled in pennies. Two questions… Did the pick of coin depend on the economy? How hard are they to pry up?—
A.M.

Filed under Interior Design

We every hit too many plugs and too few outlets. This surround o’ outlets solves that problem. No unification because it’s pretty easy to see how it’s done. What’s not so easy is remembering which outlets are live. — A.M.