Mary Daniels

If your impression of Mexican crafts is clay-colored tourist pottery and rustic chairs of pigskin leather stretched over a wood-slat frame, then a new Evanston shop, Cassona 1509, will show...

"I'm on the Amish Internet. People come in and request things to be made and if the craftsmen I know can't make it, they send me around to the one...

Laurie Carver wants people to come to her Senses--which is what she has named her unusual new gift gallery in downtown Wilmette. Hers is one of the few shops with...

A singing cherub designed by Marie Claude Lalique is the second in a series of angelic collectibles launched by the prestigious French crystal and luxury goods house in collaboration with...

"It's a little bit of country, it's a little bit of contemporary, it's a little bit of the masculine club look, but the whole store flows together," John Gray says,...

Collectors here are getting a world-class antiques show--the new Chicago International Antiques and Fine Art Fair at the Merchandise Mart. It'll be open to the public May 1-4, 1998, and...

Fitting right in with the fashionable look of "shabby chic" is the vintage china and silver plate from old Chicago hotels and private clubs that Salvage One is offering as...

"The Best Christmas Decorations in Chicagoland" by Mary Edsey (Tabagio Press, $21.95) takes readers on a tour of 250 of the most unique and outstanding business, municipal and outdoor residential...

"A lot of cats sleep on their owner's necks or across the tops of their heads," says Los Angeles law student David Lupoff, whose own furry black feline, Cupcake, had...

Chicagoans have a rare opportunity to appreciate the sublime beauty of contemporary Japanese craftsmanship at Yufuku at Paul Stuart, a new gallery in the John Hancock Center. Its premiere exhibition...