But as we got closer, he fingered the fabric and said dismissively, “Oh, that would wear really badly.” A striking chair in a delicate deep blue fabric was also rejected for practical reasons: “I have dogs, so that’s not happening.” Photo Mr. Norton first visited ABC Carpet & Home 15 …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is going into the next year “willing to spend as much as $1 billion” on original video content, building out the roster of exclusive TV on its revamped video tab Watch. In …

Alvin Baez | Reuters Fallen trees block a street as Hurricane Irma howls past Puerto Rico after thrashing several smaller Caribbean islands, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico September 6, 2017. “Those are things that matter to them,” says Paul Golden, spokesman for the National Endowment for Financial Education. “The higher your …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images An attendee demonstrates the ARKit, augmented reality tool, on an Apple Inc. iPad Pro during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S., on Monday, June 5, 2017. Apple CEO Tim Cook is downright giddy about augmented reality. And …

Philippe Lopez | AFP | Getty Images A man walks out of a shop displaying a bitcoin sign during the opening ceremony of the first bitcoin retail shop in Hong Kong on February 28, 2014. The price of bitcoin fell sharply after a report China’s regulators are planning a further …

BRAD’S STATUS Ben Stiller’s Brad, who works for a nonprofit, is forced to confront his self-perceived mediocrity after a college visit to Boston with his son (Austin Abrams) makes him jealous of his own former college pals’ success. Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson, Jemaine Clement and Mike White play his high-rolling …

Melina Mara | The Washington Post | Getty Images Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe at a rally in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia on Friday October 23, 2015. Under the caveat that anything can happen in politics nowadays, Axios CEO and co-founder Jim VandeHei said …

That musical, called “Racing in the Street,” didn’t get the green light, either. “My memory is that the script made its way to Springsteen’s people, who said that Springsteen wasn’t interested in theatrical adaptations of his work,” Mr. Weidman said. “Understandable and not unexpected.” Still, you can’t blame a book …

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Takeshi Uchiyamada, chairman of Toyota, poses for a photograph at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2017. A hybrid car was never the first option. But when Uchiyamada’s bosses shot down an initial pitch to develop a car with …

Many works formerly owned by Degas were displayed in a 2016 exhibition titled “Painters’ Paintings,” which also featured artworks owned by Anthony van Dyck, Matisse and Lucian Freud. Photo Édouard Manet’s “The Painter Monet in His Studio” (1874) features Claude Monet and his wife, Camille. Credit BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand …