The Finnish designer’s chairs were lauded for their comfort, functionalism and ergonomics as well as their design.

HELSINKI (AP) — Yrjö Kukkapuro, a renowned Finnish designer whose postmodern style of chairs graced waiting rooms, offices ...

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The acclaimed British author, who has sold millions of books worldwide, reflects on her career and the value of giving ...

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What I found was the kind of European who gets on my nerves. The anti-Trumpist, like the anti-American, I ignore, or I send ...

The 100 East Building, at 100 E. Wisconsin Ave., in Milwaukee, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Jan. 16, for being, "significant as the best and most important example of a ...