With its cool Celtic knot design and durable construction, the Ginger Salt side table looks great indoors or out. Made of laser-cut, powder-coated carbon steel, it’s 22 inches high and 20 inches across, $299, at Crate & Barrel. Photograph: Leonard Gertz
In 1954, a suburban housewife in Oak Park caused a small stir by announcing that aliens from the planet Clarion had told her the world was coming to an end. It didn’t, but the little stir she caused on Cuyler Avenue led to one of the most important breakthroughs in psychology and social science in the 20th century.
We loved the butterfly wall sculpture in a recent episode of WGN-TV’s Bring It Home, so we asked host Rochelle Vayo Adkinson to track down the source—and also a lower-cost option. High Departure, made of found cans, wire, soot, and lead, by Paul Villinski, about $10,000, through Morgan Lehman Gallery, 212-268-6699 Low Polypropylene … Read more
A sold-out crowd tasted samples from 27 breweries at Thursday night’s Beer Under Glass, the official opening bash for Chicago Craft Beer Week 2011 at Garfield Park Conservatory…
More of stylist Susan Victoria’s picks from ICFF…
The Emanuel administration pulls TIF data out of its inflexible PDF jail, making it sortable and downloadable; meanwhile, the Illinois Senate Redistricting Committee puts the process on Google Earth.
What would I do right now if I worked downtown? I’d knock off a little early and head over to The Terrace at Trump, where I’d be among the first drinkers of the year—on an almost-gorgeous afternoon, no less—to take in the best views in the city. Today is the Terrace’s soft opening for the spring and summer season, and in a phone call this morning to the bar’s manager, Kamilah Mahon, I got the scoop on its new Polynesian-chic theme…
In short: the brakes heat up to 2,500 degrees, and the tires immediately deflate to keep from exploding. Then the brakes burn.
The first-shift creative/design lecture series Creative Mornings, which has branches in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Zurich, arrives in Chicago next month.
After more than a decade of experience as a professional custom framer, graphic designer, and furniture maker, beginning from a two-car garage on the North Side, Kansas expat Raun Meyn is branching out with his own Wicker Park retail store this weekend…
