Best of the New: Young Designer to Watch
T. J. O’Keefe
Ad Categories: Home and Garden
Natural Selections
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
Speaking Volumes
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.
Estudio Furnishings
Wow! Manny Torres at Chicago’s Estudio Furnishings just posted a photo of this custom leather ottoman he did for a client…
Pop-Up Art & Artifacts
The two masterminds of Architectural Anarchy, Gosia Korsakowski and William Rawski, are behind a new pop-up gallery…
Australia at Trump, Art & Artifacts Pop-Up, JG Custom Design
We may be skirting ankle-deep curbsides of slush and scraping Mesozoic layers of ice off windshields, but Aussies are currently enjoying the heady heat of summer, probably planning what to throw on their barbies Monday (that’s the national holiday Australia Day, the equivalent of our Fourth of July)…
Careful Peach Sale
The cute Oak Park shop Careful Peach that was one our “Bests” of Chicago design in 2010 will be offering 30 percent off…
Crosell & Co. Sale
Through January 31st, Crosell & Co. is offering 20 percent off every regularly priced item in its Damen Ave. store…
Best of the New: Source for Glam
Christopher Guy
Best of the New: Eclectic Showroom
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