The Pink Wishbone Project
Just like the Chicago Skyline these days, the famed Hans Wegner Wishbone Chair—featured in our most recent color issue—is going pink…
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Jan Parr on Decorating with Bold Colors
The September/October issue of Chicago Home + Garden is all about color! From yellow and turquoise to gray and hot pink, hues can really pull a space together. No matter what your tastes, there is a color palette for everyone. Watch editor Jan Parr and interior designer Julia Buckingham Edelmann on WGN’s Midday Fix as they share their favorite colorific accessories.
Bladon Conner at The Salon Series
Sparkling conversation, clinking wine glasses, and the face-to-face exchange of questions, answers, and ideas (forget Facebook chat): this is what Chicago artist JC Steinbrunner (and this blogger’s significant other) had in mind last winter…
Best of Show
We love this serene space, part of an award-winning home designed by Margaret McCurry…
ASID Winners
Lichten Craig Architects and Gary Lee Partners were two of the winners in the residential category at last month’s American Society of Interior Designers’ (Illinois chapter) annual awards…
Macy’s Fine Rug Gallery
In July, Macy’s State Street began moving its Fine Rug Gallery from the musty, outdated ninth floor down to the freshened-up eighth, in the process expanding its selection of contemporary rugs…
New stores: Isle of Man, Kenzy
With the current butch buzz of mancaves and bromances (No one really makes a fuss of metrosexuals anymore, do they? Those poor, well-manicured and well-mannered gentlemen must be so . . . relieved.), it’s only to be expected that masculine multipurpose haberdasheries have been sprouting up like so many five-o’clock shadows after a long holiday weekend
Jonathan Adler at Kohler
Visitors to the Kohler Design Center in picturesque Kohler, Wisconsin—just a quick two-hour road trip from Chicago—can now step inside superstar Jonathan Adler’s brain…
New in the Loop: IPO Opens (Quietly) at the W
Going Public
Hitting white-collar LaSalle Street for a cross-cultural urban experience would be like going to Brooks Brothers to buy gold fronts. But IPO (172 W. Adams St.; 312-917-5608)—which opened quietly on October 4th in the W Chicago-City Center hotel—will attempt to bring the two seemingly disparate elements together.
Colorific!
What do Kartell’s Dune trays by Mario Bellini bring to the table? Ripples of vivid color, for one thing. The thermoplastic dazzlers come in two sizes, $83 and $113, at Luminaire, 301 W. Superior St., 312-664-9582, luminaire.com. Farmhouse style, de-rusticated: The 95-inch Walker table has a cherry-red lacquered-wood top, powder-coated steel base, $999, … Read more