Mitsukoshi, the oldest and most prestigious department store chain in Japan, this week introduced at its flagship Nihonbashi store in Tokyo a line of high-end home furnishings manufactured by Kindel Furniture Co. in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mitsukoshi unveiled a wide assortment of Kindel furniture as varied as a reproduction of an 18th century American table […]

When artist Julie Friedman took a five-year break from her art to devote herself full-time to raising her children, she used to dream in color.
“Every night I would see a different color,” Friedman said. “My husband would ask me, ‘What color is it today?’ But just like that, it stopped once I starting painting again.”
Friedman’s […]

Collecting antique furniture is a fine hobby. The chests of drawers, cabinets, and chairs from a bygone time not only decorate your home, but can also be used. And unlike the items for sale at discount stores, antique pieces of furniture - so long as they are originals and not cheap copies - generally do […]

Four years ago, when Cheryl Kwok and husband Jimmy built their house in Clovis, Calif., she wanted a floor that would be durable and contemporary in style but also have a touch of Asian in the living room, dining room and home office. Having seen bamboo flooring in home magazines, she decided to give it […]

Antique furniture and artwork collected by dealer Vernon Regal will be auctioned today and tomorrow at Dargate Auction Galleries in Point Breeze.
The Valencia man, who died on Oct. 13 at age 97, was an expert in 19th-century American, British, Italian and French classical furniture and mirrors, porcelain and clocks from the 18th and 19th centuries. […]

The living room was strewn with more tissue paper than on Christmas morning, but the litter wasn’t yuletide debris. It was the aftermath of what interior designer Joan Craig calls her “I love it/I hate it meeting.”
Craig, co-founder of the 11-year-old architecture and interiors firm Lichten Craig, had compiled a stack of tissue-wrapped “idea packages” […]