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Byline: Elaine Louie She took symbols from ancient cultures and translated them into intricate embroideries, beadings and paintings on clothes worn by the likes of Jacqueline Onassis. Mary McFadden, a [...]

She took symbols from ancient cultures and translated them into intricate embroideries, beadings and paintings on clothes worn by the likes of Jacqueline Onassis. Mary McFadden, a fashion designer who [...]

This salty yet sweet, creamy yet crunchy fresh corn chowder was developed for The Times by the executive chef Wade Burch for a series of articles about chefs who cook [...]

She oversaw the Tiffany girls, a group of glass cutters and artisans who created elaborate, colorful lamps that are still in demand. This article is part of Overlooked, a series [...]

Byline: Elaine Louie and Elizabeth Paton The first Japanese designer to show in Paris, he was known for his origami-like designs, creating pleated skirts, dresses and trousers that afforded freedom. [...]

The first Japanese designer to show in Paris, he was known for his origami-like designs, creating pleated skirts, dresses and trousers that afforded freedom. Issey Miyake, one of the first [...]

His experimentations with different materials and technology earned him widespread recognition as well as patents and awards. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people [...]

A couple of years ago, Kate and Ben Towill decided they needed more living space. They were both successful professionally: Ms. Towill (who was then Ms. Dougherty) is an interior [...]

What do you do when you find yourself envying your horses? You go out and get a barn of your own. That's not as hard as it sounds, provided you [...]

When James Ramsey and Jennifer Blumin bought a TriBeCa loft from the 1830s, they were determined to keep all the original details: the old windows, the tin ceilings, the brick [...]

Folkthread, a collection of home furnishings by Kit Kemp for Anthropologie, was inspired by the folk art and textiles she has encountered in her travels. (Ms. Kemp, an interior designer, [...]

All City, a graffiti art gallery and pediatric clinic, will open on Friday in the former Claremont Theater, a 22,500-square-foot landmark in Manhattanville. The organization's executive directors, Hugo Martinez, a [...]

When a reporter dressed in a black shearling coat and a Tibetan hat edged in fox walked into Libra Leather's pop-up store in TriBeCa, Mitch Alfus, the owner, said, ''You [...]

Some people build their own doghouses or tree houses. Jacob and Melissa Brillhart's D.I.Y. project was a little more elaborate: They hand-built a 1,500-square-foot house. Never again, they insist. Still, [...]

Dan Cooper, an Amherst, Mass., producer of cotton lace curtains with Victorian and Arts and Crafts motifs, has leapt into the mid-20th century with a new design, Galaxy. Commissioned from [...]

Last year, when Jonathan Adler was asked to redesign the 309 guest rooms and suites of the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Manalapan, Fla., he worked with three [...]

It all started with a cup of chai. Or the desire for one, at least. Three years ago this month, Anita Trehan was walking along Water Street, in the financial [...]

''My grandmother, Dorothy Hoffman, was an interior designer, and by the time I was 3, I knew a Florence Knoll couch, the Saarinen round table and his Tulip chairs,'' said [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn 2006, Sheila Bridges, a Manhattan interior designer, updated the traditional pictorial wallpaper known as toile de Jouy with scenes from Harlem, including a couple dancing to a boom [...]

Arnold and Marie Forde have an interesting way of thinking about furnishings. The first thing you notice when you walk into their home in Laguna Beach, Calif., which they bought [...]

Birdsall Otis Edey (1872-1940) was not quite in her teens when she made a paper doll's house from cutup magazines and catalogs. She grew up to be a suffragist and [...]

It's a common enough dream for those who live in cramped urban spaces: Suddenly you notice a door you never realized was there and beyond it a room you didn't [...]

If Isabelle Pribre were to articulate her philosophy of design, it would sound something like this. ''I like design that surprises you as much as it eases your eye, like [...]

For those who want to relive the Age of Aquarius, there is the Hotel Dylan, which opened last month in Woodstock, N.Y. The two-story lodging, decorated by Cortney and Robert [...]

The garden that opened last month at Ladure, the restaurant and shop in SoHo, is a 2,600-square-foot oasis designed to evoke Paris. Elisabeth Holder, a president of Ladure in the [...]

Cristiane Peixoto, a floral designer, and her husband, Marcus Silberman, an investment banker, are from Rio de Janeiro, and as Ms. Peixoto said, ''Life in Rio is all about being [...]

Last month, Patrick O'Connell, the chef and proprietor of the Inn at Little Washington, a clutch of historic buildings in Washington, Va., added the Parsonage to his complex. He did [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFor years, Helen Klein Ross, a novelist and poet, and her husband, Donald K. Ross, a lawyer, lived on the Upper West Side with their two daughters and were [...]

A few years ago, Chad Oppenheim, an architect in Miami, received a run-of-the-mill phone call from a potential client. Debby Lawn, a retired elementary school counselor from San Francisco, had [...]

Byline: ELAINE LOUIE When the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute opens 'Charles James: Beyond Fashion' on May 8, the exhibition will have 70 outfits, making it the largest show [...]

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute opens ''Charles James: Beyond Fashion'' on May 8, the exhibition will have 70 outfits, making it the largest show devoted to the [...]

John and Judy Hobday live in what could almost be considered a museum: an 1810 stone house that they have painstakingly restored to its (nearly) original state. The bathroom and [...]

James McMullan has painted 80 posters for Lincoln Center Theater, won a New York Times best illustrated book award for ''I Stink!'' written by his wife, Kate McMullan, and has [...]

Rebecca Atwood is a pragmatist. ''I studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and realized that textiles were the closest thing to painting that I could do as a [...]

Rocio Moreno, a Spanish interior and product designer, works with artisans in northern India who hand-weave silk brocades in brilliant colors. Her newest collection includes Orissa, a wall hanging that [...]

Clive Wilkinson, a 59-year-old architect, has designed attention-getting offices for TBWA\Chiat\Day and Google, and now he has done one for the Barbarian Group, an Internet advertising company in New York. [...]

When the Broome hotel opens on Feb. 14 in SoHo, it will have a European look, but the furnishings will be mostly homegrown. ''We wanted local artisans and vendors,'' said [...]

Among the eclectic goods at the 60th Winter Antiques Show, which opens Friday, will be a set of library steps. ''It's an unusual piece of furniture,'' said Wendell Castle, 81, [...]

Byline: ELAINE LOUIE New York What do you do when you love a bright color but don't want to be overwhelmed by it? Hire a designer who works almost entirely [...]

What do you do when you love bright color but don't want to be overwhelmed by it? Hire a designer who works almost entirely in white. It sounds counterintuitive, but [...]

Byline: ELAINE LOUIE New York On the theory that if you build it, whomever you're waiting for will show up, Jay Dubiner decided to renovate his apartment. He was 46 [...]

Since 2000, Mary Bergtold Mulcahy has been designing block-printed organic cottons with Srinivas Pitchuka, a textile artisan in India. Working in a tradition called kalamkari, Mr. Pitchuka bleaches the textiles [...]