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Year: 2009

Art for the Stars

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I love the idea of Ellen Degeneres, Meredith Viera, Dr. Phil, and other daytime TV luminaries at the Orpheum Theatre for the Daytime Emmy Awards on August 29, chillin’ in the Green Room designed by Chicagoan Christoper Michiels. Michiels commissioned Sheri Zeman of Faux Design Studio to create some of her new custom textured art panels for the room. We can’t show you the Green Room, but here’s how this wall art might look in your living room.

—JAN PARR

Stylin’ Stroll

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The annual Dearborn Garden Walk is a great place to get inspiration for your garden. This year’s walk includes a tour of more than 20 Gold Coast gardens, ranging in style from minimalist to ornate. Five of the gardens will feature literature-inspired vignettes with furniture and accessories chosen by interior designers from local firms (SemelSnow’s … Read more

Know Your ABCs

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  The alphabet has never looked so cool. Lletras i Tipos wallpaper by artist Javier Mariscal for Tres Tintas Barcelona is great for anything from a hip kid’s room to a home office. Washable and easily strippable, it comes in four colorways: orange (shown here), red, gray, and beige, $135 per roll, each 20¾ inches … Read more

A Second Home Search Engine

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If you are one of the fortunate few looking for a second home, you may want to check out the Niche Properties Network, which showcases second-home properties on eight different websites. Those sites are only a few weeks old now and have very few listings, but this week the company is starting a concerted push to get real-estate agents to sign on with…