White Stuff
The lobby of the new Hotel Palomar Chicago, designed by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, offers an easy formula for how to inject a space with a sense of lightness and fun: Just add white…
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Samuel Heath Shower Baskets
Wish these shower baskets from Samuel Heath were available when I was redoing my bathroom…
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
An appealingly lazy trend among pendant lamps—the option to suspend them from the ceiling or lie them on a flat surface to act as luminous table or floor sculptures
Urbane Outfitter
A designer brings his Edgewater condo to life with classic mid-century and contemporary furnishings
Grand Gets Grander!
Marian Kraus Photography and State Street Salvage (which has another location in Geneva that we covered in our May/June issue just joined the cool crowd (see “West is Best”, a recent Design Dose post) on Grand Avenue…
Pelican Brief
DWR’s August e-catalog has a reproduction of Finn Juhl’s Pelican chair (originally produced in 1941) on the cover and at the office, we’re split on what we think of this design…
Riggo Design, KitchenWalk Kick-Off, Dwell Patterns
I’m kinda-sorta looking for a new sofa, so stopped by Urbanest to check out its new(ish) space, a few storefronts south of the original location on Clark Street, to see if inspiration would hit…
Maison Suzanne
New at Maison Suzanne in Oak Park: Pillows for the holidays made from antique Indian wedding saris…
New Antique Stop on the North Shore
North Shore interior designer Randy Heller recently opened a booth at Anna’s Mostly Mahogany in Highwood, and it’s worth checking out…
Floral Design Classes
The hip garden store Sprout Home is offering flower-arranging classes…