Mary Daniels

A Hong Kong manufacturer has allowed imagination to take wing on the ubiquitous coat hanger. The ugly duckling hanger has turned into a swan, thanks to Wong's International Trading, Inc.,...

Stephanie Eihl signs her painted art furniture with her name, just as an artist would a canvas. "Eihl," however, trips up people's tongues, she says. "Usually they say `eel.' It's...

Lalique perfume bottles may be the most desirable vessels on collectors' lists, but anything related to perfume is valuable and interesting right now, say experts on this hot new collectible...

"When was the last time you walked into your living room, and your furniture made you smile?" asks Rich Petronio, owner of Stone Soup Ltd., a new interiors shop at...

Four-footed Mississippi flood displacement victims are benefiting from their own disaster relief program. Dr. Mary Baukert, a member of the Chicago Veterninary Medical Association, has designed a food supply mission...

History: This is the stuff your grandma and grandpa brought back from Mexico that you've never known what to do with. It now is considered folk art, made primarily from...

"Prices were good on the whole," said Michael FitzSimmons, Chicago gallery owner, on the recent auction at Christie's in New York of the Domino's corporate collection of Frank Lloyd Wright...

If you are a horse person, or just wish you were, the place to be this weekend is Wadsworth, Ill., where everything from riding clinics to riding clothes will be...

`The selection of Arts and Crafts furnishings never has been greater, prices are lower and there is more knowledge about the style than ever before, making this an ideal time...

Some of the world's most famous equestrians have ridden into history on Hermes saddles-including American Carol Lavell, who was in one when she cinched the bronze medal for the American...