The way a person decorates their home is an extension of their personality. After all, home is where people unwind, rest, and host, so it should be equal parts comfort and cool. For those who aren’t ...

Rachel Ashwell remembers her first trip to Round Top. Friends had been urging the creator of shabby chic to check out the semiannual antiques fair for years before she made the trip to Texas from ...

Even if you don’t know the term Shabby Chic,* there’s a good chance you know the look: extra-plush bedding with slightly rumpled ruffles, teeny-tiny floral prints and vintage furniture, often ...

When Rachel Ashwell’s book The Shabby Chic Home was released in 2000, the author and design guru already was well established as a purveyor of new and vintage accessories, furniture and linens at her ...

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For Rachel Ashwell, founder of the Shabby Chic empire, a new home on the Malibu coast serves as a reminder that perhaps the tide is turning. In the last two years, she closed 15 stores, filed for ...

It was a junque junkie’s dream outing: to accompany none other than Rachel Ashwell, the founder of the Shabby Chic home-decor empire and the queen of secondhand stylishness, on a flea-market shopping ...