Based in London, with stores in Santa Monica, New York City, Tokyo, and San Francisco, Rachel Ashwell is best known for creating and coining the decorating style "shabby chic." But many don't know ...

A battered painted dresser; an overstuffed sofa covered in faded, flowered fabric; a chipped vase filled with nearly-gone cabbage roses; a light fixture draped in ropes of rock crystal. These design ...

WASHINGTON — Gilbert Ashwell, a biochemist and medical researcher whose work in a National Institutes of Health laboratory helped lead to new methods of treating disease and infection, died June 27 at ...

Maxed out on midcentury modern? Fashion designer Lily Ashwell (daughter of Rachel) shows a new generation just how chic shabby can be. There’s a scene in Along Came Polly in which Ben Stiller’s ...

At a time when weathered woods, vintage treasures and timeworn flea market finds are enjoying a renaissance in the decorating world, it is more than a bit ironic that Rachel Ashwell, the queen of ...

Matthew Meadows and William D. Ashwell to lead the firm's Richmond location operations RICHMOND, VIRGINIA / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Ashwell & Ashwell, PLLC is excited to open a Richmond ...

Lily Ashwell’s taking her collection of silk bridal gowns digital. The Los Angeles designer, whose namesake store is located in Venice, began offering a small selection of gowns for brides and ...

HUME’S COUNTRY LIFE: Omnipresent in the Nineties, Kirsty Hume retreated from the fashion scene after marrying Donovan Leitch, but has since quietly returned to modeling. The blonde-haired Scot, who ...

James Travis Ashwell, Capt. U.S.N. (Ret), 87, of Smith Mountain Lake, VA, died in Roanoke, VA at the home of his daughter, on Saturday, April 22, 2006. A son of the late Sallie Willie Craghead and ...