Looking for some fun this weekend? Head to Buchanan, Michigan, just west of Three Oaks and about an hour-and-a-half drive, where several businesses are opening their storefronts to serve wine and nibbles to celebrate the birth of a revitalized downtown there. Highlights are antiques shops owned by a couple of Chicagoans: Alan Robandt and Thomas Jolly. See our story on the two here. The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is celebrating its grand opening, too. The party takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 23, on Front Street.

—JAN PARR

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Looking for some fun this weekend? Head to Buchanan, Michigan, just west of Three Oaks and about an hour-and-a-half drive, where several businesses are opening their storefronts to serve wine and nibbles to celebrate the birth of a revitalized downtown there. Highlights are antiques shops owned by a couple of Chicagoans: Alan Robandt and Thomas Jolly. See our story on the two here. The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is celebrating its grand opening, too. The party takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 23, on Front Street.

—JAN PARR

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Looking for some fun this weekend? Head to Buchanan, Michigan, just west of Three Oaks and about an hour-and-a-half drive, where several businesses are opening their storefronts to serve wine and nibbles to celebrate the birth of a revitalized downtown there. Highlights are antiques shops owned by a couple of Chicagoans: Alan Robandt and Thomas Jolly. See our story on the two here. The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is celebrating its grand opening, too. The party takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 23, on Front Street.

—JAN PARR

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Buchanan Arrives!

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Looking for some fun this weekend? Head to Buchanan, Michigan, just west of Three Oaks and about an hour-and-a-half drive, where several businesses are opening their storefronts to serve wine and nibbles to celebrate the birth of a revitalized downtown there. Highlights are antiques shops owned by a couple of Chicagoans: Alan Robandt and Thomas Jolly. See our story on the two here. The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is celebrating its grand opening, too. The party takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 23, on Front Street.

—JAN PARR

Sweet Dreams

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For the first time in the U.S., Hastens, the luxury bedding company, is putting some of its all-natural, made-by-hand in Sweden beds on sale. The Excel is marked down 23 percent;  the Continental, 26 percent. 430 N. Wells St. and 976 Green bay Rd., Winnetka. Sale starts May 15 and runs through July 1. 

—JAN PARR

Kindel Furniture Launch at Bedside Manor

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May 7, 2009 — Bedside Manor Ltd celebrated the launch of a new line of furniture at its Lincoln Park location on May 7th. The complete line of Kindel Furniture is now available for sale in all stores. Design aficionados inspired by the current Hollywood Regency aesthetic were charmed by the Dorothy Draper Collection on display. Kindel Furniture is the perfect complement to the fine linens and accessories offered at Bedside Manor. Proudly made in America since 1901, the company is well known for its fine quality and hand craftsmanship.

Winging It

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Zoe Ryan, the enthusiastic and talented design curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, gave me a brief tour of the department’s new space in the Renzo Piano-designed Modern Wing the other day. She and her colleagues have put together some terrific displays of functional art. I especially loved the exhibit of iconic seating by Ron Arad, Marcel Wanders, Konstantin Grcic, along with lighting by Ingo Mauer, among others (see it ’til January). Along with gorgeous flatware in one case were elegantly simple, reversible drinking glasses by an under-the-radar Chicagoan, Felicia Ferrone (more on her in the next issue of Chicago Home + Garden).

-JAN PARR

Market Watch

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Antiques junkies, mark your calendars. The Randolph Street Market Festival kicks off its 2009 season at the end of May. Browse the furnishings, housewares, and artifacts of some 200 dealers. The market is open the last weekend of every month, through September. randolphstreetmarket.com 

Under My Umbrella

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On a red carpet, we swear this little number could be mistaken for an Oscar de la Renta. Mirasol Flamenco ruffled outdoor umbrella by Santa Barbara Designs, 7-foot hexagon on an aluminum frame, perched on a steel base. Price available upon request, through David Sutherland, Merchandise Mart, 312-205-7700; sbumbrella.com 

All That Glitters

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Bisazza, the granddaddy of glass mosaic tile, with showrooms in Berlin, Paris, and other major cities, is opening a flagship store in Chicago this summer. Look for sparkling mosaics and a small sampling of the company’s furniture collection. Bisazza Chicago, 226 W. Kinzie St., 312-329-1350; bisazza.com 

Getting Juicy

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Interior designer Jessie Davidson of Juicy & Co. is hosting a Country Antique Market featuring items she’s brought back from the Brimfield Antique Market in Massachusetts and the Scott Market in Atlanta, as well as some furniture of her own design. All of her finds will be staged under a striped tent in a garden setting. Friday, May 29, noon to 3 p.m. and Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 210 East Center Ave. in Lake Bluff.

—Gina Bazer