Sharon Stangenes

Furniture designer Leonard Eisen is a grab-`em-by-the-eyeballs kind of guy. His Victorian-inspired 221 Baker Street collection for Pulaski Furniture introduced at the International Home Furnishings Market brims with ornate carving,...

Chicagoans who have relied on the guidebook ''Country Inns and Back Roads'' to locate a pleasant getaway will have the opportunity to take a bit of charm home with them....

Mark Hampton may be Barbara Bush`s favorite interior designer, but he won`t be doing an overhaul of the White House kitchen. ''It`s a big, industrial-type kitchen,'' said Hampton, Indiana native...

Spying the first Christmas decorations of the year-like seeing the first bird of spring-is always a tricky business, especially with such a big metropolitan area to cover. Carson Pirie Scott,...

A seat fit for a queen was one of the attractions during the recent National Casual Furniture Market. Two of 20 rose wicker chairs owned for 60 years by members...

Wood is making a comeback for stylish outdoor living, and so are traditional metals such as wrought iron in introductions at the National Casual Furniture Market, which ends Monday at...

It will be the end of an era when Crate & Barrel quietly leaves Wells Street in late September. ''It`s too small and there is no parking,'' explains Gordon Segal...

''Traditional values are back, so traditional is back,'' says Joseph Ruggiero, editor of Los Angeles-based Home Magazine during a recent visit to Chicago. He predicts that this decade also will...

If it isn`t nailed down, interior designer Mario Buatta probably has lent it out for reproduction. The New York designer, better known as the Prince of Chintz, recently signed a...

Stepping up from bare-bones discount to fine furnishings, Colby`s Home Outlet stores at the suburban Fox Valley Shopping Center in Aurora and in Wheeling will switch into full-service Colby`s stores...