Elaine Markoutsas

How can traditional graphic design elements help create a clean look in your home? This is what has worked for Michael and Ann Schroeder Vanderbyl. - Color. ''Go with the...

Just seven months after 400 of ''all the right people and press'' showed up to congratulate Willie and Dainnese Gault on the opening of their men and women`s clothing boutique...

For holiday entertaining or for gift-giving, imagine roast turkey set on a porcelain plate bearing the dramatic black-and-white image of a Robert Mapplethorpe orchid or a more traditional rendering of...

Robert A.M. Stern`s thoughts on: Kitchens: He says kitchens have never been better, though he claims not to know what a Eurostyle kitchen is. Nor does he like open-style shelving...

In her native Vienna, Rita Bucheit grew up amid antiques handed down generation to generation. When she moved to Chicago 1/2 years ago some pieces, including a huge baroque burled...

It can take as long as six months for Ani Afshar to weave one of her magnificent blankets of silk, wool, glass beads and Mylar thread, which has a shimmery...

For those who remember the shop at the corner of Wells and Illinois Streets as one where you might pop in to buy a bicycle, look again. Gone are the...

As a fifth-generation furniture maker, Howard Meister might well have inherited his family`s traditional approach to producing chairs. For 64 years the company mass-produced wood exposed furniture in North Carolina....

When Stephen and Victoria (Tory) Pavlovic began to design a nursery for their son, Dwight, now 9 months old, they were disappointed in their search for images to decorate the...

He lived in a steel-and-glass high-rise on the Gold Coast. She made her home in a vintage Evanston apartment. When Leslie and Lois Fishman decided to marry, that meant a...