Decorating with blue is hardly new territory, yet this newly crowned Color of the Year feels different – softer, moodier, and ...

A year ago, neighborhood gift retailer Patina was scrambling to build out an e-commerce site to survive the pandemic. This month, the Minneapolis-based boutique chain unveiled an expansion of its ...

One cook struggles to strain a 50-gallon pot of beef stock while another turns dozens of zucchini strips on the grill. Ten other cooks scurry about preparing test meals as Joachim Splichal walks into ...

Let's face it: When it comes to antiques, differentiating between a patina and tarnish can be tricky. "Rust is one form of patina. It is the result of corroding steel after the iron particles have ...

In a day 'n' age when automotive painters have the technology to refine finishes with deeper gloss than ever, somehow patina is all the rage. Should painters be concerned? Not so much the clever ones.

A few weeks ago, a dress at Patina cost $1,800. Today, it’s just $399 — a casualty of a high-cost economy filled with tariffs and inflation. Both factors have forced this long-time Roanoke business to ...

Rick Haase and Christine Ward met in sculpture class at the University of Minnesota more than three decades ago and have been applying their art sensibility to their retail business ever since. The ...

There’s no denying that vintage watches are an endless source of fascination to watch collectors. Most of them predate the quartz watch era and make use of a mechanical movement (either hand-winding ...

Over the course of 32 years, local gift store chain Patina has survived copycats, fires, riots, a pandemic, and Amazon. And now, founders Rick Haase and Christine Ward have ensured their popular Twin ...

At the Las Vegas ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, appraiser Reyne Haines, of Reyne Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, viewed a Tiffany inkwell from about 1900, noting that tape put over the bronze cap of the inkwell ...

In a day 'n' age when automotive painters have the technology to refine finishes with deeper gloss than ever, somehow patina is all the rage. Should painters be concerned? Not so much the clever ones.