An all-over-the-place assortment of stood-behind products culled from this very website that appears in the most recent July issue of New York Magazine.

If it’s small enough, any lamp can be a bedside lamp. But when the Strategist’s home-décor writer Erin Schwartz consulted 17 experts, Hay’s Matin Table Lamp (available in eight colors) was far and away the most recommended option. The Matin got the nod from interior designers as well as our style columnist Chris Black and SNL’s Chloe Fineman, who owns two. Fineman said it “creates a beautiful glow” (she has a purple one for her place in New York and a yellow one in L.A.). Schwartz, who tested the lamp, found it was easy to toggle among the three brightness levels and liked how it filtered the light for nighttime reading. Evan Dent, the manager of Shakespeare & Co. on the Upper East Side, who got one as a gift from his girlfriend, agreed. He said, “The shade shapes the light pretty well so that you can keep reading without disturbing someone trying to sleep next to you.”

“Without being shiny, this serum smooths out my skin and gives it a bit of a glow. While we were filming Janet Planet, it was basically the only thing I wore on my face besides moisturizer because the director, Annie Baker, likes showing ‘warts and all.’ ”

“It goes without saying that every Arab household has to have za’atar. There’s sumac berry in this blend, which gives it sour notes, and sesame seeds, which are toasted and add a little bit of nuttiness. Like my mom, I always have it blended with olive oil as a spread.”

“Our Irish wolfhound is 180 pounds. He’s a big boy, and he requires a very large bed. This XXL bed can actually fit two wolf- hounds comfortably, which has been a game changer. The covers on them are great, too. You just remove them and wash them.”

When writer Sara Gaynes Levy had her first child, she, like most new parents, registered for a lot of things neither she or her baby ended up liking very much. Of all the gadgets and gear she has cycled through, this mini-sanitizer is the thing she wishes she would’ve had with her eldest.

“This doodad has become my go-to baby gift: I loved mine more than anything else I got for my third child.
The small countertop device dries and sterilizes pump parts, bottles, and pacifiers using UV lighting, getting you bone-dry, sterilized baby gear in as little as 30 minutes. This is a low-maintenance device (unlike the steam sterilizers I had tried), which was crucial because with my third, I exclusively pumped and had a lot of stuff to wash and dry every day. This saved us so much time and counter space. It looks neat and organized and holds a lot of stuff. It’s expensive but so worth it.”

“They make an absolutely killer all-cotton-crêpe polo that breathes insanely well in the summer but holds its shape,” says Cody Min, the founder of the creative studio Astronaut Monastery, of this polo from Philly-based brand Junior’s. “It has a knit hemline that stays tucked in nicely and tapers the body perfectly.” Min always tucks them in.

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