Take Two
A design-minded couple gives a century-old house in Evanston a second chance to make a first impression
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Shop the Mart
The Merchandise Mart’s new Designer-on-Call program lets you borrow a designer for a day to shop the formerly closed-to-the-public upper-floor showrooms. Need something special? Here are stylist Susan Victoria’s picks for what’s great and grabbable now.
Anarchy Rules
A gigantic composite hand that once advertised Schlitz beer (left); a collection of vintage sign letters (far left); vintage paintings (below); a 1930s schoolhouse wall clock (below right) It’s nice to spread the wealth. That’s why we love the fact that antiques dealers Gosia Korsakowski and William Rawski—who until recently operated their business, Architectural Anarchy, … Read more
Pet Friendly
My mother, who is clever in ways I will never be, made a new slipcover for the cushion on our bench…
Epoch Pop-Up, Bring it Home TV, Urban Folk Circuit
Chicago florist Mike Hines has been creating artistic, atypical, not-your-grocery-store-variety arrangements for private clients and upmarket hotels for the past ten years, at his lofty Epoch studio on the West Side…
Drama Lessons
I’m sure I’m not the only designphile who also loves dissecting theater sets…
Let It Snow
On the North Shore, proof that the garden in winter can be a magnificent thing
Trump Tower Model Units
I recently got a preview of the Trump Tower model units, all decorated by Mary Cook & Associates…
Francine Turk’s “Dilemma”
Have you ever seen a piece of art in a movie or on TV and absolutely had to have it, only to never find it again?…
Sitting Pretty
This past fall, at Chicago Home + Garden’s Chairs for Charity event, 200 designophiles convened at The Tile Gallery in River North to check out—and bid on—some very cool chairs.