In the heart of the antiques district on La Brea north of Wilshire, there’s a shrine to the mundane, to one woman’s passion for the things we never think about yet can’t live without. Drawer pulls.

About three years ago, business owner Tim Judge faced a pleasant but frustrating dilemma. As his business gradually increased, space in his Frenchtown, N.J., store slowly diminished. Attempting to ...

Timothy and Ellen Judge were searching early last year for a place to expand their hardware business, which specializes in replicas of antique fixtures such as claw-foot bathtubs and high-tank toilets ...

It takes a rap on the surface of the claw-foot tub in the Antique Hardware Store in Kintnersville to determine that it’s a fiberglass replica rather than a Victorian-era cast iron original model. Its ...