Just because summer is over doesn’t mean your summer home doesn’t need you anymore. Sure it does—it needs you to buy it gifts and make it feel better about the fact that you won’t be coming to visit as often anymore. Seagrass is a wonderful spot for outfitting your beloved second home with an East Coast cottage vibe, and it’s having a big sale through October 15, including floor samples.
—GINA BAZER
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Just because summer is over doesn’t mean your summer home doesn’t need you anymore. Sure it does—it needs you to buy it gifts and make it feel better about the fact that you won’t be coming to visit as often anymore. Seagrass is a wonderful spot for outfitting your beloved second home with an East Coast cottage vibe, and it’s having a big sale through October 15, including floor samples.
—GINA BAZER
" />Just because summer is over doesn’t mean your summer home doesn’t need you anymore. Sure it does—it needs you to buy it gifts and make it feel better about the fact that you won’t be coming to visit as often anymore. Seagrass is a wonderful spot for outfitting your beloved second home with an East Coast cottage vibe, and it’s having a big sale through October 15, including floor samples.
—GINA BAZER
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Just because summer is over doesn’t mean your summer home doesn’t need you anymore. Sure it does—it needs you to buy it gifts and make it feel better about the fact that you won’t be coming to visit as often anymore. Seagrass is a wonderful spot for outfitting your beloved second home with an East Coast cottage vibe, and it’s having a big sale through October 15, including floor samples.
—GINA BAZER
Q: Do I want my ceiling painted white, or a more noticeable color?
Barnett’s dark-stained cerused rift-cut oak pedestal dining table, $6,800. Coffee tables with Italian ebony bases and hand-chiseled American walnut wavy tops, $6,500 for the pair Self-taught furniture designer John Barnett’s (jbdenison.com) stately yet easy-to-live-with furniture has the kind of bold presence that turns heads. Interior designer Michael Del Piero—whose interiors have a similar effect—has … Read more
At home with the up-for-anything owner of design shop George Lowell
Designer and welder Ross Fiersten was not impressed with the current state of nesting tables. Most were “functional, but not that exciting to look at when they’re nested,” he says. (Fiersten and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hayes, owners of the South Side firm Metal+Works, design and create furniture and architectural pieces with metal, and count Holly … Read more
Wait a minute… that’s not the question. The question is, who decorated the Green Room for the Daytime Emmys? Of course you know from reading this blog that Chicagoans Christopher Michiels and Sheri Zeman did! They just sent this snap of Sheri (left) in the room with Bobby Ewing and an associate. They’re standing in front of Sheri’s textural art panels. Toto, we’re not in Southfork anymore!
—JAN PARR
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The eco-friendly Roscoe Village shop A Cooler Planet, part of our green shopping round-up is closing its doors at the end of the month and offering deep discounts on organic bedding, mattresses, bed frames, and more. It’s so sad to see a passionate independent shop with such good values say adieu. Stop in for healthy, earth-friendly good deals.
—GINA BAZER
PHOTO: ERIC HAUSMAN
Greg and Kasia Kay bring a little Vegas to Lake View with their poolside soirées
Hobnob with the ninth Earl of Spencer (that would be Charles, brother of the late, lovely Diana, Princess of Wales) at Barrington’s Honquest Furniture for Living, this coming Tuesday, September 8 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Charlie is in town to meet and greet fans…
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These porcelain cones ($20 each) from Grasshopper 510 are so cute, whether used for display or a vase or serving ice cream. The non-toxic, lead-free glaze makes them good for kids, too. Of course the kid will be bummed he can’t eat the cone. And you’ll be bummed if he drops it. Size is approximately 2¾ inches by 2¼ inches.
—GINA BAZER
