Mary Daniels

For all we know, such famous folks such as Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer), Lady Valerie Solti, Jamee and Marshall Field V, Bill Kurtis and Donna La Pietra and Annette and...

''Horses are a big part of my life,'' says Lee McHugh, who has been breeding and racing thoroughbreds for about 20 years. ''Yet I could never find artwork or jewelry...

For John Maienza, design was a part of his upbringing the way other kids were weaned on music or sports. He grew up in River Forest and graduated from Oak...

Easter is starting to look more and more like Christmas, judging by the accessories showing up at specialty shops here. Decorations are branching out to include the Easter Tree (an...

Paul Granata, 34, tries to ''achieve the concept of comfortable elegance.'' ''I try to put it in the kind of context that a client can relate to,'' he says. ''It...

Anthony Michael, 28, is to interior design what Alec Guinness was to acting, able to handle radically different roles, his talent comfortably manifesting itself behind many faces. He can disguise...

Sieglinde Schoen Smith will tell of her ''Hummel'' beginnings, when she speaks here March 9 at Fruhlingfest (or Spring Festival), sponsored by the NorthWest Suburban Playmates, a local chapter of...

The rust is history at Salvage One, the mother lode of architectural objects. Previously overlooked objects are taking on a whole new life with a little imagination and a blowtorch...

The perfect Valentine`s Day gift for the basket collector can be sent from Celebrations to Go in LaPorte, Ind. and New Buffalo, Mich., which offers ''The House Basket,'' a charming...

''You`ve got to hand it to them,'' said Robert Vavra of the accomplishments of Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher in their book ''African Ark.'' Vavra is himself a world-class photographer...