Sharon Stangenes

Gwen Thomas is owner of a hearty laugh, a small interior design firm and a star-studded clientele that is growing daily. After 17 years as an interior designer and president...

Architects and interior designers visiting the City Lights by Crest showroom, 363 W. Erie St., can sink into cushy black leather sofas, sip fresh coffee and survey a dazzling array...

After waiting one year for enough Indian ebony to be cut and cured for a client`s floor, interior designer Reed Krueger learned his order of exotic wood had been destroyed...

The best of American new-product design is showcased in the latest Innovation, the journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America. The 16 top winners in the 1990 competition include...

Home air compressors inflate toys, pump up tires and power spray paint guns, but what other products might be operated by air? That was the assignment handed design students at...

Hot on the heels of the first Eddie Bauer Home catalogue, are reports that the outdoor apparel and gear company will be opening home furnishings stores in 1991. Cory Strait,...

''I like organized clutter,'' insists Lyn Kavanagh, a Wilmette-based interior designer who counts among her clients author Allan Bloom as well as Lord Wedgwood, descendant of Josiah Wedgwood, founder of...

Looking for a little custom-designed furniture? Well, one needn`t crash the Merchandise Mart to see a few of Chicago`s newest designs. Check out a free exhibition of new furniture, lighting...

If you get a backache when hunched over your work, then a new adjustable height desk from Herman Miller may be just what the doctor ordered. Part of a movable...

Chicagoans will have a new furniture shopping option in the near future with the planned opening of five Value City stores here. Value City`s first entry opened Saturday in Bridgeview,...