AD: Children of the ’70s Will Remember These Home Trends by Megan Deem

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If you grew up in the 1970s, you likely spent at least part of the decade in a wood-paneled rec room where you listened to 8-track tapes of Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer, and Neil Diamond, while your parents read The Joy of Sex, played racquetball, and went to key parties (if they were particularly adventurous). Megan Deem catalogs some of the things you had in your home

AD: Children of the ’80s Will Remember These Home Trends by Megan Deem

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The 1980s saw the rise of Reganomics and the birth of yuppies (and guppies and buppies…). America’s youth learned to Just Say No when it wasn’t watching MTV (Madonna! Michael Jackson! Milli Vanilli!) or the films of John Hughes. Television shows such as Dallas (Who shot JR?) and Falcon Crest were but one source of interior design inspiration. Megan Deem gathers some of the gems of the decade

AD: Children of the ’90s Will Remember These Home Trends by Megan Deem

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The dawn of the 1990s begat the introduction of Generation X and the World Wide Web (as well as the sound of phones nationwide dialing up the internet: You’ve got mail). Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office, where he assured citizens that he “did not have sexual relations with that woman.” And America was transfixed by the slow-speed police chase of a white Ford Bronco in Los Angeles. As Megan Deem shows, when we were able to turn ourselves away from the TV, we surrounded ourselves with these comforts of home

Observer: Drexler University: How J. Crew Became Fashion’s Finishing School by Megan Deem

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When Alex Drexler, son of retail macher Millard “Mickey” Drexler, launched his new clothing venture, he wasn’t the first entrepreneur to start a line with his father’s blessing. As Megan Deem reports, under Mr. Drexler, J. Crew has become an incubator for fashion self-starters, including Todd Snyder, Tim Hamilton, Emily Sugihara, and Chris Benz