Mary Daniels

Gay Roberts, owner of Chicago`s City Garden, is the only florist from outside Washington to be asked to design floral arrangments for any of this week`s presidential inaugural dinners. ''I...

Lovers of beautiful handmade holiday things have a treat in store with the 14th annual Christmas at the Faire, a market of handcrafted folk art and gifts next weekend. Entrepreneur...

Northwestern`s favorite graduate vixen swept onto the first-floor concourse of the State of Illinois Center surrounded by a phalanx of Mid-American Swedish Trade Association moguls the other evening. The red-haired...

Decades ago, an automotive ''concours d`elegance'' was a special presentation by coach builders and fashion couturiers on wonderful old estates. High society would gather for an afternoon open-air outing, peering...

A fashion major in art school, she later was a model, painted children`s portraits, ran a business selling gift items, designed and sold needlepoint kits to the Horchow catalog. She...

The ancient Aztecs, in a religious ritual of renewal, burned all their belongings every 52 years and began again. Ursula Wagner didn`t go quite so far as to torch everything,...

Do you love your cat but see a parting of the ways ahead if you can`t solve his aggressive behavior toward other pets in the household, or toward you, or...

All year long the books pour in--beautiful, hefty, glossy-covered books on gardening and art and design. Reviewers` copies are free, of course, but at year`s end we thumb through the...

The American country look has become so popular, it is getting underfoot. ''There are so many `country` homes, primitive hooked rugs have become very desirable,'' said Leila Lindahl of Geneva,...

Images of that four-legged art form, the domestic cat, have been interpreted by 20 artists in a fun summer show at Fairweather Hardin Gallery, 101 E. Ontario St. Through July,...