Designer Amy Smilovic is busy doing a final run-through when I arrive to do a backstage interview. I busy myself by snooping around: lots of black and white with the occasional shot of sky blue. Lots ...

PITTSFIELD -- Walnut arms curve smoothly in a chandalier. A wooden clasp glides apart, and a brown oak box opens to show a row of teabags. Shakers did drink tea. But here with a sewing table and ...

Step into the Shaker Retiring Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and you’ll find no design detail wasted. There are hooks lining the walls for clothes and chairs, wheels on the bed for easy ...

A sense of comfort is experienced in different ways by different people. Even luxury and elegance, which in many minds can be achieved only through the use of richly crafted objects and exotic ...

Anita and David Muertz like to keep things simple. Twelve years ago they moved south from a busy corner lot in Waterloo to Anita's hometown of historic Maeystown (population 233) for a quieter ...

Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing than pegs, ladder-back chairs and quilts. The Shakers, as they were otherwise known, were an English ...