Author: Kimberly Pearson

“Chatsworth” voted one of England’s favorite “country” houses, sits on the most idyllic 1822 acres you can imagine. This English Baroque style/Italianate “country” house has 126 rooms and requires a staff of 500 to maintain it....

It’s the end of January 1922, in Milwaukee.  A week has been set aside by a group of distinguished lighting designers and manufacturers with the goal “to boost better lighting.”   They referred to this week as the “Better...

If you are a parent, the word ‘remember’ is a regular part of your vocabulary.  “Kids, remember to brush your teeth,”  “remember, you need to feed the dogs,”  “BOYS, PLEASE remember to put the seat down!”   For...

and capsicum.  What in the world do they have to do with anything design related?  Hang on, let me introduce you to the players and see if I can take you on this ride in approximately 600 words. Three years after the Civil War,...

. . . . this would never be the title that I would give the eccentric fashion icon, Iris Apfel. She referred to herself this way because of her late-in-life fame. You don’t have to look too far to find more hysterical and...