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The new trilingual, 720-page edition of "Modern Furniture: 150 Years of Design" is a sweeping retrospective of furniture design, ranging from an 1859 "bistro chair" to the latest design trends through 2011.

For the past three years, one of "Design on a Dime’s" brightest design stars has been Tulsa-born interior designer Joshua Ingraham who has created rooms for the Housing Works benefit that have been as big and bold as Ingraham’s personality.

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The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s McLean Library, located on the first floor of PHS headquarters, 20th and Arch Streets, will house a plant exhibition, "Strange Beauties," beginning Oct. 31 and continuing through Dec. 2.

The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell for the third straight month in September after the spring-and-summer peak buying season failed to entice new buyers.

Steuben Glass, an American icon of handcrafted crystal for over a century, looks now as if it’s vanishing for good. Its lone factory in Corning, a glassmaking company town flanked by Steuben County’s tree-topped mountain ridges in southwestern New York.

The 2012 event will re-emerge as the Maine Home+Design Show, which is slated for Saturday June 30 and Sunday July 1, 2012 and will be held in a specially constructed tent in Rockport.

Introduced in 2002, the Kenneth James brand is on the leading edge of new designs and techniques in wallpaper and a barometer of what’s happening in the high-end marketplace.

The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures.

"It’s a relief to read about other kids with two moms," commented one child. According to the 2010 census, children with same-sex parents live in 96% of U.S. counties.