Sharon Stangenes

Take 26 appealing but broken-down antique chairs from a Dijon, France, tearoom. Add a sharp design eye, imagination and a good Chicago restoration workroom. Mix in space in the Saudi...

Consumers will get a new furniture shopping option this spring as the Polo/Ralph Lauren Shop, 960 N. Michigan Ave., expands and adds wood furniture as well as china and glassware...

Concerned about ecology and recycling, Marteena Tischer has hit upon an idea she thinks will help solve the nation`s environmental problems. Tischer, owner of Money Honey, shapes newly printed U.S....

Designing fabrics for office furniture is far different from creating new textile patterns for home sofas, says Rob Rose, the fast-talking design director for Architex International, a Chicago-based textile company...

In a reversal of what has become the usual retail pattern, Maurice Mandle & Co., the 60-year-old furniture showroom, closed its clearance center last fall and has reopened in expanded...

There is new hope for consumers who in the past have found most designer products beyond their budgets. Others may gawk at $300 colanders created by French architect Philippe Starck...

Living with a manic-colored chair in brilliant color splashes of hot pink, yellow and blue is not everyone`s idea of relaxing, but ''this to me,'' observes artist Nancy Drew, ''is...

Chicago artist David Csicsko (pronounced sis-ko) is riding out of the Midwest and into the hearts of consumers across the country with a tiny lithograph of a cowboy on the...

Need a holiday gift for someone with a sense of drama? A sweatshirt or T-shirt with a collage of 77 Chicago theater group logos just might be the ticket. Created...

Aiming to catch the eye of working women, Oak Brook-based Spiegel Inc. this year has mailed a digest-sized catalogue called ''Candice Bergen`s 42 Last-Minute Holiday Gift Ideas'' to a million...