Karen Klages

Midwest design is alive and kicking. One of the highlights of last week's Chicago Design Show, held at The Merchandise Mart, was the emergence of good, solid, contemporary home furnishings...

There is nothing exciting about a hammer--until a company known for making ordinary products that feel better in your hand and work more easily than the average model, put a...

Make way for yet another kitchen-and-bath magazine. November finds Fine Homebuilding jumping into the fire pot--and the whirlpool too. In spite of the crowded field, this magazine manages to be...

Furniture manufacturer Giulio Cappellini knows how to take chances. The leader of the furniture company that bears his name, is known for his ability to spot fledgling talent and turn...

Tom Byrne, a New York-based home inspector and president of the American Society of Home Inspectors, a Des Plaines-based national professional organization, offers some tips for keeping pipes free and...

Italy is full of small, highly innovative furniture manufacturers that show the world what cutting-edge design is all about. Among these Italians, Giulio Cappellini reigns as one of the most...

For those who know their way around a sewing machine and are brazen enough to take on making window treatments, the folks at Laura Ashley have a clever idea. Get...

Seen all over New York shops this fall: tabletop pieces made of horn. What was once reserved for caviar spoons is now being fashioned into salad servers, cake servers, small...

Commemorative plates, Y2K--If you're saying, "Geez, how much more of this millennium stuff can we take--and buy?" hold on for a minute. We found something palatable, in more ways than...

What's a groovy potter to do next? If he's Jonathan Adler, it's designing lamps, pillows and more cool pottery. The 33-year-old New Yorker has taken the ceramics world by storm...