Every year on Fulton Market at Aberdeen Street, near his eponymous furniture shop, Morlen Sinoway puts on his iconoclastic Guerrilla Truck Show, with local independent designers showing furniture and objects from the backs of trucks they park on the strip. Last year, some 600 people showed up to see pieces by furniture designer Jason Wade … Read more
Illuminated polyethylene planters from Bordato are flowerpots, plus. They take energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs (included) and are available 19 3/4 inches high ($375) and 27 1/2 inches high ($525); both sizes have ten-foot cords. Use inside or out. At Design Within Reach (dwr.com) Photograph: Leonard Gertz Styling: Barri Leiner
List Price: $899,900
Sale Price: $925,000
The Property: Five days after U.S. Bank put this foreclosed 12-room Hinsdale house up for sale, three bidders were vying for it—and the only reason it took that long was that the bank requires a property be marketed for at least five days before it will look at offers. “It could have gone even…
Combine a warm Chicago evening, two popular Food Network hosts, and a few good friends, and what do you get? An East Coast–style chow fest to remember
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Holy Hockneys, Batman—there are a LOT of mighty fine art events going on in the city this weekend! We have the Mart’s trilogy of trade, Artropolis, consisting of the sprawling Art Chicago on the 12th floor, with modern and contemporary offerings (although I’m told that this year they’ve changed the floor plan of the fair so that it’s not quite so sprawling…I was always wandering in circles, not sure how many booths were left to see), the NEXT show, on 7, which serves up more cutting-edge culture, and a grande dame of an antiques fair on 8, showing—you guessed it—antiques, from 100+ dealers. Wear comfortable shoes, please. But it’s not all about the Mart this time of year—the international art world focuses on Chicago, and local galleries use that attention to showcase the finest fillies in their stable. Richard Gray has a terrific one-man Marc Swanson show in their John Hancock gallery (that’s Swanson’s twinkling taxidermy above) and dealer Aldo Castillo has curated the second coming of Chicago’s only Latin American art exhibit ARTEahora at his River North gallery. And, as I mentioned last month, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will be bringing down the hammer on art and rare books from the collection of the recently shuttered Robert Henry Adams gallery, on Monday May 4. This Rudolph Weisenborn 1951 portrait is among the 285 lots, available for viewing now.
-BRADLEY LINCOLN
Spring is here. Curious which trends will take off, we asked six design-savvy Chicago women to tell us their season must-haves. PLUS: Where to buy
New neighborhood bars that open in not-so-new neighborhoods have a choice to make: Stitch themselves into the fabric or blaze a new path. In a neighborhood as established as Little Italy, it’s not surprising Jay’s on Taylor (1421 W. Taylor St., 312-666-6663) toes the line—so much so that I almost expected the bar, which opened mid-April, to seem a little more weathered and old-school than shiny and sleek…
A new play retells Czech history filtered through rock songs of the times
List Price: $699,900
The Property: Like a camouflaged animal that hides in plain sight, this wild and irreverent West Chicago residence appears from the street to be nothing more than a big ranch house on a huge lot. But hiding inside that conservative shell is one of the zaniest homes I have ever visited…
Left to Right: Globe Stand: Edward Wormley for Rand McNally, Circa 1955. Gary Stier on a 1960s sofa. Sofa: Paul Evans Chrome and Burl. Assemblage, a new 20th-century design dealer in the West Loop, is not just another place to get an Eames plywood chair. In fact, you won’t find much in this 5,500-square-foot … Read more
