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 ...

Empire Rebuilding Rachel Ashwell built a powerful retail brand. Then she lost it all.. Misha Gravenor Rachel Ashwell was a single mother when she opened her first Shabby Chic boutique in Santa Monica, ...

But before we get into that, let us pause to remember the dearly departed. Shabby Chic is, or was, a small California-based retail chain, started in 1989 by a British-born Los Angeles resident named ...

Central Delaware might seem a bit barren when it comes to unique home décor, but Simply Charming at The Mill is proving itself a colorful oasis in that home furnishings desert. “We call it ‘rustic ...

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 ...

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 ...