Lisa Skolnik

Peter Carl Faberge, the jeweler to Russian royalty, may be long gone, but the fabulously opulent eggs he created for the last two czars to give their wives each Easter...

You think you've got wood-care woes. . . . How do you remove that nasty water mark from your Mission dining-room table? How do you protect your antique rocking chair...

Wire cloth never looked so good. Usually this material essentially a heavy-duty version of the stuff of screen doors -- is used to make filters for industrial applications. But in...

Wire cloth never looked so good. Usually this material-essentially a heavy-duty version of the stuff of screen doors-is used to make filters for industrial applications. But in the hands of...

Tired of the ordinary offerings at the malls? Forget conventional centers and try the multidealer antique malls that have sprung up on the city's North Side. "It's like the average...

There are some things in life that turn even unassuming folks into photo flaunting show-offs. Sure, sure, not you. But just wait-odds are a lot of people get married, take...

The trademark "let your fingers do the walking" had its limits-the local phone directory. Now you can cover a lot more ground with Catalyst, a new guide by Consumer Direct...

Do your rooms look a little bland around the edges? Boxy and bleak . . . or bordering on boring? "That's the problem with new structures or all those renovations...

Perhaps no other architect in American history stands out as an individualist as definitively as Frank Lloyd Wright. He was the most significant figure connected to the Prairie School, which...

Most antiques shoppers knows the score-the spiffier the store, the more the stuff costs. And if the shop really shines, forget it . . . the prices are probably sky-high....