Take a page from specimen-loving designer Alessandra Branca’s book and infuse your home with a little creepy-crawly fabulousness. These porcelain bottles, featuring transfer designs inspired by the curiosity cabinets of Renaissance Europe, will bring a stylish touch of science history to your tablescape. Psi, $115; theta, $90; and epsilon, $165; at Branca, 17 E. Pearson … Read more
Whether a Kindle, an iPad, or a plain old hardback is your reading tool of choice, having a place at home devoted to the quiet contemplation of news and literature is a deep pleasure. Four designers tell us how they created spaces as page-turningly compelling as the books and electronic delivery systems they might hold.
Wow! Manny Torres at Chicago’s Estudio Furnishings just posted a photo of this custom leather ottoman he did for a client…
Associate editor Nora O’Donnell visited the set of CLTV Evening News last week to promote Chicago magazine’s annual Singles issue. Nominations for Chicago’s most desirable singles are now being accepted and Nora gives some insight on how to stand out from the crowd!
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The Property: The sellers of this English country home in Winnetka got only 88 percent of the $5.2 million that they had originally asked for the place—but that’s still at least 43 times what their parents had paid for it in 1952…
@pennypollack: Team Dish says: sloppy Joe @butcherlarder is simple, tasty, but kinda pricey @ $10, w/chips + drink tho. THE BUTCHER & LARDER: 1026 N Milwaukee, Chicago, 773-687-8280
At first glance, I thought the fuzzy bear hood worn by Pete Wentz at last night’s VIP reopening of Angels & Kings in the Hard Rock Hotel—view a photo gallery here—signaled either a transition out of his flat-hair phase or further proof that the fashion industry, and the faux-fur trade in particular, will be taking a truly whimsical turn for spring…
The rock lounge Angels & Kings, formerly of River North, reopened last night to an invite-only crowd in the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago. Pete Wentz and his new band, Black Cards, played a short set before posing on the red carpet (that’s him, with what we can only assume are pro-Bears swipes of solidarity greasepaint) then hitting the bar…
The two masterminds of Architectural Anarchy, Gosia Korsakowski and William Rawski, are behind a new pop-up gallery…
Local medical experts weigh in on the latest developments in fertility, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and other women’s health issues. Plus: Get our list of more than 250 top doctors for women in the city and suburbs in the digital edition BREAKTHROUGHS IN WOMEN’S HEALTH WOMEN IN MEDICINE TOP DOCTORS FOR WOMEN
