He has ordered a convertible sofa for his office area, custom made on the basis of photos he took of sofas from the 1930's.
Mrs. Bagot has ordered a new sofa, but as she forgot to ask if it would come in the morning or afternoon, she is spending the day waiting for it.
By Maeve Brennan The New Yorker, March 2 , 1968P. 39 Mrs. Bagot has ordered a new sofa, but as she forgot to ask if it would come in the morning or afternoon, she is spending the day waiting for it.
On a warm July night, with a sweet breeze coming off the river, we sat on one of those white leatherette sofas, ordered a glass of wine and when offered a table were happy enough to stay put.
She had just ordered an off-white sofa when she was in Nunu Chocolates, on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and noticed a mirror that she thought would go with it.
As with its sister venues, Brooklyn Parlor is cultural karaoke at its finest: granted, its idealised vision of a typical New York hangout – all brick walls, open-plan seating and shelves crammed with art and design books – may seem contrived, but once you've sunk into one of the expansive sofas and ordered a round of draught Brooklyn Lager, you probably won't be too fussed either way.
This is not Libin's first attempt to foster a group of AI startups: last year, after he parted ways with Evernote, Libin joined General Catalyst and kicked off a new project there to find, fund and grow startups building bots — tools that chatted with you, a human, using conversational artificial intelligence, to help you find information, solve a problem, order a sofa, and much more.
I ducked from the bustle of the street into the cafe, Coffee and More, sunk into a velvet sofa and ordered an iced tea, which arrived in a glass of slivered ice, sweetened with sugar syrup and laced with lime juice and a musky tangy flavor that took my tongue a minute to identify: galangal, the woody-tasting Thai ginger.
All my friends buy their clothes there: you can order a new outfit from the sofa the day before a night out, an interview or a wedding and they always deliver.
It is the re-emergence of the big-spending consumer (who snaps up a new bed and sofa while ordering a case of wine) that is likely to have prevented the UK economy from repeating the lacklustre growth rate of 0.4% seen in the first three months of the year.
