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The land of chairs: an Italian competition for young furniture designers had mixed results - View Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the most north-easterly Italian province, with Slovenia to the east and Austria to the north. It is often overlooked by tourists ......(Continue Reading) How to furnish a perfect patio: homeowners are turning this once-humble backyard area into the utmost in beauty, convenience, and luxurious living - Lifestyles DURING THE 1840s, the cry of "Manifest Destiny" was at the lips of American politicians, setting forth the need to continue westward expansion until ......(Continue Reading)One-stop shopping and e-commerce risk turning the once familiar stretch of Boots and Dixons into a sad no man's land For the past ten or 15 years, British high streets have had comfortingly familiar air. If I was dropped on any one of them with a shopping list, I think ......(Continue Reading)Fat of the land: Dale Boone at the frontiers of gluttony ... an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty ... --Isaiah, 29:8 Dale Boone can eat anything, and lots ......(Continue Reading)Case furniture of the Chapin school, 1775-1800 Eliphalet Chapin of East Windsor, Connecticut, has, since the 1920s, been the lower Connecticut River valley's best-known, and generally considered its most gifted, eighteenth-century cabinet-maker...(Continue Reading)
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