Q. My husband and I are curious about these vases, which were in his family home for many years. No one in the family knows anything about them and I can’t find anything similar. They are about ...

Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese craft technique that utilizes lacquer and gold to repair broken ceramic pieces. Kunio Nakamura, the 52-year-old kintsugi ... think of the pottery works as ...

The project has since spread to other areas of Japan — and overseas — with people donating old pottery to be reborn into beautiful jewellery and ornaments. Through partial sales proceeds ...

Jobs' passion for Japanese pottery never wavered ... where he met Takahashi Rakusai the Fifth – a master of the centuries-old Shigaraki-yaki style. Takahashi Rakusai the Fifth remembers speaking ...

JOMON (10,000 - 300 B.C.) Prehistoric period of tribal/clan organization. Stone Age hunters and gatherers who make jomon (rope-patterned) pottery inhabit Japan. 660 B.C. Mythological Jimmu ("Divine ...

Mingei’s current popularity might be a pushback against the anonymity of our contemporary, industrialized and globalized ...

Brian Hayes bhayes@thenewstribune.com I arrived at a home in the Lincoln District with a shoebox full of Japanese knives ...

New stores selling furniture, mattresses, and outdoor clothing opened at Westfield Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie over the ...

Thank you for reaching out to share your recent order experience with Pottery Barn. I apologize for the inconvenience you've experienced. Please send us a private message with your order number ...

Suburban Chicago's mall boom continues as six new stores are set to open at Westfield Old Orchard mall in Skokie, including a ...

Must-have qualities for running a creative business are patience, flexibility, creativity, faith and 'an incredibly strong ...

When my mother-in-law, Marta, invited her 100-year-old mother to move in with her ... Instead of creating something new, the firm tweaked Pottery Barn’s best-selling Cayman, Farmhouse, and ...