Class Up Your Zoom Meetings

We’ve sat through plenty of Zoom meetings and seen too many funny backgrounds, so we were thrilled to see a shift from clever to classy when the Metropolitan Museum of Art released ten classic architectural interiors for use as video backgrounds. From a Parisian Rococo study or a Chinese garden court to seedy Dutch dining rooms or a Japanese teahouse, these backgrounds won’t fool anyone — at least until you casually mention that you’re isolating with your great uncle William Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne.

This sharable snippet comes from the April 29 edition of Corcoran’s Home/Office e-newsletter.