Israeli Influence
Ukrainian import Tali Kogan brings Tel Aviv designers to the Midwest
Year: 2009
Just Add Drama
Runway makeup for fall ran the gamut from 1980s neon chic at Marc Jacobsto the au naturel faces at Balenciaga. Here, our three favorite looks
Weekend Photos: White Shoes Party at Hub 51
Maybe they didn’t get the memo: Despite the chance to don their white kicks one last time before Labor Day Fashion Police put the kibosh on said footwear, a Sunday night crowd showed up to Hub 51’s White Shoes Party largely white shoe–free. Oh, well. At least this way folks weren’t crying over spilt wine on their sparkling Choos…
Designer Boutique Opens in Pilsen
Half and Half
When the economic crisis hit, boutique owners immediately began buying fewer garments and accessories, leaving many designers with overstock for each collection. Instead of accepting her loss in profit, one of those designers, Annie Novotny, creator of Frei Designs (freidesigns.com), decided to transform the front half of her Pilsen studio space into a retail shop. Opening last month, Workshop (818 W. 18th St., 312-226-9000, workshopchicago.com) features Novotny’s locally produced, eco-friendly line of coats, dresses, tops, and…
Summer Home Lovin’
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Just because summer is over doesn’t mean your summer home doesn’t need you anymore. Sure it does—it needs you to buy it gifts and make it feel better about the fact that you won’t be coming to visit as often anymore. Seagrass is a wonderful spot for outfitting your beloved second home with an East Coast cottage vibe, and it’s having a big sale through October 15, including floor samples.
—GINA BAZER
Ex-Cub Mark Prior Sells His Lincoln Park Townhouse
List Price: $695,000
Sale Price: $676,000
The Property: The pitcher Mark Prior has sold the Lincoln Park townhouse that he bought in 2002 several months after arriving in Chicago to great expectations. Prior left the Cubs in December 2007, but he didn’t put the four-bedroom townhouse on the market until…
High-Minded Hues
Q: Do I want my ceiling painted white, or a more noticeable color?
Statement Furniture
Barnett’s dark-stained cerused rift-cut oak pedestal dining table, $6,800. Coffee tables with Italian ebony bases and hand-chiseled American walnut wavy tops, $6,500 for the pair Self-taught furniture designer John Barnett’s (jbdenison.com) stately yet easy-to-live-with furniture has the kind of bold presence that turns heads. Interior designer Michael Del Piero—whose interiors have a similar effect—has … Read more
Mix Master
At home with the up-for-anything owner of design shop George Lowell
Well Nested
Designer and welder Ross Fiersten was not impressed with the current state of nesting tables. Most were “functional, but not that exciting to look at when they’re nested,” he says. (Fiersten and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hayes, owners of the South Side firm Metal+Works, design and create furniture and architectural pieces with metal, and count Holly … Read more