No matter who you are, you know what it's like to be annoyed. Whether you're at work, talking to your partner, having a discussion with a friend or even interacting with a stranger, there are moments ...

Gracious Home opened its first store, on the Upper East Side, in 1963. It became the quintessential Manhattan housewares emporium: a place where society matrons buying $1,500 cotton sheets shopped ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Fifty-year-old home furnishings retailer Gracious Home has been acquired by Americas Retail Flagship Fund LLC (ARFF), in a timely transaction that "rescued" the company and its more ...

Gracious Home isn’t going away, after all. The luxury home retailer, which closed three of its four stores in Manhattan late last year and is still stuck in Chapter 11, is mounting a Web-based ...

Graciousness looks easy, but of course it is not. Do not mistake mere manners for graciousness. Manners are rules. Helpful, yes. But graciousness reflects a state of being; it emanates from your ...

The word gracious is not one you hear tossed around a lot in casual conversation these days. People used to say, “Goodness gracious!” when they were shocked at something. That sounds rather quaint to ...

Graciousness looks easy, but of course it is not. Do not mistake mere manners for graciousness. Manners are rules. But graciousness reflects a state of being. When wandering the world, forget your ...

There’s a new bakery and café brewing Uptown in the former home of ManhattanJack. Gracious Bakery + Café is slated to open a new location at the Pyrtania Street storefront as soon as early November.

Our handwriting, though slowly disappearing from existence, is one of the more unique things about us. But anyone who has ever sat down to write more than a dozen “thank you” notes knows how ...