Mary Daniels

The crisp, neutral-walled interior of Tabula Tua, a new store at 1015 W. Armitage Ave., is like an Aladdin's cave, with a treasure of shelf upon shelf of brilliantly colored...

Cynthia Perkins, owner of Sugar Hill Wreaths, is one of Santa's special helpers in Eastbrook, Maine. To ensure that needles stay on her balsam fir holiday wreaths as long as...

"Even though this is a traditional business, you've got to go with the times and take advantage of available technologies if you want to be efficient and profitable,"says Sean Susanin,...

Power to ...: For those old enough to remember Woodstock, it doesn't seem like 25 years ago. To jog memories of how Crosby, Stills and Nash used to look or...

New design trends in Finland, which has produced a wealth of innovative products during this century, are a highlight of a massive exhibition at The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture...

While digging up foundations of old homes, Chicago contractor Christopher Robinson says he has discovered a slew of old marbles and became an avid collector. But, when he realized it...

The current "cover" story regarding quilts is the application of their graphic sophistication to a series of journals, sketchbooks, address books, books of days and notecards . The quilt images...

"You never have total control. It's very temperamental," Sharon Gilbert says of the glass she transforms into beautiful three-dimensional cast glass products. "Glass is a magnificent medium to work with,"...

Arthur Rubloff was a heavy-hitter as a collector and that certainly applies to this collection," Leslie Hindman, head of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, says of the late developer and his collection...

As an environmental contractor who does asbestos and lead paint removal for demolition companies, Rick Lair came across countless architectural artifacts-from griffins and North Wind faces to stained glass and...