Home and Garden

The holidays are a great time to pull out the old photos and reminisce, but there’s no need to huddle around a dusty album.

If you’re looking to glam up your living room for the holidays, you’re in luck. Pantone has released the name of its 2014 Color of the Year: Radiant Orchid.

It is common to think of a solar-powered home as something new and unusual. We’ve come to accept the idea that you cannot have comfort and convenience without paying a significantly large power bill.

Artists often create many different kinds of art: paintings, etchings, prints, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, marble sculptures, bronzes and perhaps designs for commercial products. So it is possible to buy a piece of jewelry by Alexander Calder for far less than one of his large mobiles. Or an electric fan or pedal car designed by Viktor Schreckengost, who is best known for making the ceramic “Jazz Bowl,” an icon that has sold for as much as $200,000. Works by famous artists can be part of your collection if you buy war bond posters (Norman Rockwell) or advertising figures (Maxfield Parrish) or teapots (Michael Graves).