There’s a big, arty party in Bridgeport tomorrow night, when the Zhou B Art Center hosts a launch party for the latest issue of Chicago Gallery News, the locally published, comprehensive guide to everything that’s happening on the Illinois arts scene…
Design House Stockholm recently introduced a beautiful collection of dishes, the Cobalt line by Catharina Kippel…
If you’re a soda drinker, an at-home carbonator can save money and trips to the store for re-stocking, not to mention eliminate the constant refuse of plastic bottles and aluminum cans…
Make room in your heart for another vintage shop in the Grand Avenue Design District…
Wordy walls and upholstery are everywhere these days. Interior designer Candice Mathers loves the look and commissioned a mural (“graceful, but with an edge to it”) with words from Dante’s Inferno for some Italy-loving clients’ dining area. Not up for that much verbiage? Scribbles are showing up on pillows and rugs, too.
A French Art Nouveau lithograph by Alphonse Mucha from Macklowe Gallery, an Antiques Fair exhibitor Events Dream Home Check out this year’s rooms by nine design talents, including Michael Del Piero Good Design (library), Buckingham Interiors + Design (foyer), and Frank Ponterio Interior Design (dining room). April 15–December 9, suggested donation $5, merchandisemartdesigncenter.com/dreamhome Chicago Botanic … Read more
In our May/June issue, which hits stands in a few weeks, we feature an outdoor playhouse inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House…
If you were intrigued reading about the talented group of furniture makers that make up the Dock 6 Collective in our January/February feature “Best of the New,” then this weekend is your chance to check out their work up-close and personal…
Chiaroscuro is an Art History 101 (or Art in the Dark, as we sleepy undergrads used to call it) term for the use of lights and darks in paintings to create shadows and depth…
Every so often the name of a store beckons you inside…
