Elaine Matsushita

We didn't want to get stuck with a new sofa we loved but couldn't get down the narrow, short, turning stairway to our basement, so we turned to Kristan Cunningham...

Is there someone on your Christmas list who thinks, if not exactly out of the box, on the very edge of it? Someone so sophisticated in taste, the normal scarf...

Sweaters are perfectly OK. So are jewelry, ties, silk pajamas, scarves and all that. We just happen to be partial to homey gifts for the holidays. And so, for the...

We caught up with James Dyson -- the thinking-out-of-the-bag inventor who brought the world the revolutionary bagless vacuum cleaner -- in midair as he flew from Tokyo, where he was...

Sometimes it seems as though Simon Doonan's tongue is stuck permanently in his cheek. But that's why we like him. That and the can-you-believe-it windows he has been creating for...

OK, with some gifts you can really get in the swing of the ol' one-for-you-one-for-me thing. Probably not this one. And, truthfully, for me: Thanks, but no thanks when it...

It was drama in the form of 14-year-olds' baseball. Bottom of the seventh. Our team had just battled back from a seven-run deficit. We were one out and two runs...

They are things of natural beauty with messages that perhaps only you will hear -- plants and blooms whose names reflect the hopes of many. Imagine a garden of Lasting...

15 minutes of fame: The bamboo forest fight scene in 2000's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Name game: Botanically, bamboo is classified thusly: Kingdom: Plantae. Phylum (division): Magnoliophyta. Class: Liliopsida. Subclass:...

Next week, we will wrap up our Finding Sanctuary series in which we have visited homes around the globe--from Istanbul to Senegal, Belfast to Tokyo, Iceland to India, Cuba, Uzbekistan...