Design-y vases that’ll give cut stems a happy home, plus Chris’s guide to styling men’s overalls, and stylist-approved women’s lightweight sweaters.

Wake up a room with black-and-white interior design, ... tone brown wood floor or adding vibrant flowers to a beautiful vase. ... Dorothy Draper looks is a black-and-white checkered floor.

Designers are ditching vases ... floor, they’re at once returning flowers to the earth (if only symbolically) and repositioning a flower arrangement’s hierarchy in a given room — these are ...

She cited Ettore Sottsass’s postmodern designs as “a great example of vases that represent a time, a movement and a consumer.” Ditto for Dutch Delftware and Native American black-ware pottery.