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When children grow up, parents usually watch them move into the wide world -- and, if the setting happens to be Manhattan, into a small, cramped apartment. This was certainly [...]

There are many wonderful creations in this bedroom, beginning with its occupant, Sofia Rower, who will soon turn 3. Her parents, Maria Robledo, a photographer, and Holton Rower, an artist, [...]

For most new york couples, decorating an apartment of only 500 square feet would be an issue of what to leave out, not what to add in. But Todd and [...]

This sculptured staircase looks as if it popped from the pages of the Brothers Grimm. Leading to a tower on each side, it might well be the path to some [...]

Mention reproduction furniture to a dealer of fine antiques, and he might well wrinkle his nose as if you'd suggested replacing the Hope Diamond with a zircon. But not all [...]

CHRISTINE Van Der Hurd and her husband, David Hurd, are the ultimate example of the couple who bring their work home. She designs carpets and decorative accessories; he owns the [...]

AT FIRST glance, the pieces in this kitchen look as if they had sneaked in from the living room. After all, cherry wood, cabriole legs, sycamore-and-walnut inlay and hand-carved details [...]

CHRISTINE Van Der Hurd and her husband, David Hurd, are the ultimate example of the couple who bring their work home. She designs carpets and decorative accessories; he owns the [...]

AT FIRST glance, the pieces in this kitchen look as if they had sneaked in from the living room. After all, cherry wood, cabriole legs, sycamore-and-walnut inlay and hand-carved details [...]

The huge living area in this Manhattan apartment could easily be called a room with no view. Although its most luxurious feature is a gigantic picture window, the commanding 22- [...]

Oscar Wilde came up with his own solution to the travails of leaving home. 'I never travel without my diary,' he wrote. 'One should always have something sensational to read [...]

OVER THE PAST TWO months, I have completed an attic studio, created a new home office, built a two-room vacation cabin and even drafted plans for the first floor of [...]

To Janet Roberts, the tiny age cracks that mar her collection of Chinese Export porcelain are no more disturbing than laugh lines on the face of an old friend. 'A [...]

A LONG ISLAND couple, serious collectors of English ceramics, still have the first pieces they ever bought: two Wedgwood blue-and-white cups and saucers, purchased 30 years ago for $15. 'I [...]

IN THE OLD DAYS, A MAN'S MAJOR concern with smell was that he'd better not. Legend has it that the cowboys of yore took to lilac water, hoping to cancel [...]

LEAD: They are definitely no bigger than a breadbox. Most sell for less than $2,000, and some for under $50. They tend to be between 70 and 200 years old. [...]

LEAD: The red and white stripes on the old-fashioned barber's pole stood for blood and bandages, representing a time when a barber was just as likely to remove molars as [...]

LEAD: JOHN STAIR REMEMBERS the day that a very proper-looking woman, about 60 years old, brought him a badly broken Regency chair. ''The piece was so smashed that I asked [...]

LEAD: MEN. YOU CAN TAKE them anywhere, but you can't dress them up. This stereotype seems to have haunted males ever since Adam decided that fig leaves were sufficient attire. [...]

LEAD: Most people would have the same reaction to a lime-green living room that Gelett Burgess had to the purple cow he immortalized in one of his poems: He had [...]

LEAD: Ask a man to name his favorite article of clothing, and he probably won't mention his most expensive suit or the elegant tuxedo he wears once a year. More [...]

LEAD: Like most rules, dictates on dress are made to be broken. Like most rules, dictates on dress are made to be broken. But in the traditional arena of men's [...]

LEAD: ONE DAY A WOMAN walked into Gerald G. Stiebel's art and antiques gallery and told him that she wanted to buy a Rembrandt. ''I was very impressed, even though [...]

LEAD: The stereotype of antiques dealers is that they have too much in common with their wares. Or, as Wheelock Whitney, a 38-year-old Manhattan art specialist who still looks like [...]

LEAD: As William E. Connor was preparing for a business meeting in Seoul, South Korea, he realized that he was missing something terribly important: his pants. Part of a dark [...]

LEAD: Not so long ago, antiques from the Middle Ages and Renaissance were about as welcome in American homes as that other emblem of those eras -the Black Death. ''I [...]

LEAD: For many busy men, exercise has become a little too much like work: getting up early, putting on the required clothes, traveling at least some distance, toiling alongside hordes [...]

LEAD: When Jef Blum moved from New York to California 11 years ago, he brought suitcases full of East Coast clothes - not to mention some psychological baggage. When Jef [...]