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May 23, 2025

Designers look to nature, landfills for new decor materials

January 14, 2023 Kim Cook, Associated Press

At first glance, Nina Edwards Ankers’ sconces and chandeliers look like ancient scrolls of parchment, or sheets of buttery toffee, wrapped around LED bulbs. Come closer — or just ask the New York-based designer/architect — […]

Women embrace #challengeaccepted, but some ask: To what end?

July 31, 2020 Kathleen Foody, Associated Press

CHICAGO — “Challenge accepted,” they wrote — female Instagram users across the United States, flooding the photo-sharing app with black-and-white images. Together they formed a grid of millions of magazine-style captures of celebrities, spur-of-the-moment selfies […]