Can you persuade your weimaraner to vamp on a Wassily chair? Or coax kitty to strike a pose on that Corbusier couch? If so, you might be able to win some sweet modernist merchandise courtesy of Modernica’s Pets on Furniture contest.
List Price: $4.185 million
The Property: One in a string of three prominent lakefront homes in Winnetka that are often called “the storybook houses” for their fanciful architecture, this Tudor house has a remarkable living room that seems to have sprung more from a stately English country home than a fairy tale…
Liz Goulet Dubois glass, $12, at Museum of Contemporary Art Store, 220 E. Chicago Ave.; 312-397-4000, mcachicagostore.org. Photograph: Courtesy of vendors IDEA International solar sputnik light, $22, at A+R, aplusrstore.com. Photograph: Courtesy of vendors Bond lucite lamp, $695, at Jonathan Adler, 676 N. Wabash Ave.; 312-274-9920, jonathanadler.com. Photograph: Courtesy of … Read more
STILL STANDING TALL: Even as a short sale, opulent house among town’s most costly in 2010
Pollack’s Dinner at Bistro One West in 111 Words
Bistro One West (1 W. Illinois St., St. Charles; 630-444-0600) has a comfortable dining room tucked inside a building that’s a tad hard to find in the dark…
TOP-DOLLAR DEAL: The city’s priciest sale in four years might have gone for more if new
Only in Italy does a utilitarian item become a thing of beauty. Moncler, the Milan-based apparel brand that pushes heavy coats in a fashion-forward direction, has opened a standalone shop on Oak Street just in time for winter lows. For years the brand has been at high-end department stores, but this new boutique offers jackets, … Read more
Our top five picks for things to do this week: For those whose New Year’s resolution was “Hear more live music”: James McMurtry … Allen Toussaint … Charlie Hunter … a behind-the-scenes chat with Lyric leading lady Deborah Voigt … plus, what hometown DJ Jesse De La Peña is doing this weekend
LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES: Carl Carder brings new meaning to the phrase “farm implements”
Garrett Kelleher, the head of the development firm behind the now-defunct Chicago Spire, has quietly put his Astor Street mansion on the market. The asking price is $16 million, according to his agent, Janet Murphy of Baird & Warner…
