Some Like It Cold
Eight great ice buckets that add style, cubed, to your holiday buffet or drink cart
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Swedish Fishing
There’s nothing like a Gustavian Swedish bench to give your home the airy feel of a European country home.
Last Minute Gift!
This cracks me up, and it would make for a great pop of color in any room. Don’t know how practical it is, but it’s definitely amusing. Price: $45 at Zella Brown.
—Gina Bazer
Cork, Popped!
Cork flooring is becoming fairly common, but some designers are exploring other possibilities that this popular sustainable material offers—and the results are lovely.
Ideas for using a fireplace to create a focal point?
Q. I live in a 750-square-foot condo with a fireplace that seems like an afterthought instead of a design focal point. My TV sits in a space over the fireplace, which looks strange to me, and the finishes on that wall are a downer. Ideas?
Buyer's Guide
A brief listing of products and professionals involved in the designing of the homes we show in our pages.
Hog Heaven
We fell in love with the leather pig standing guard in Nate Berkus’s master bath (featured in our July/August issue), and decided everyone ought to have one. Turns out we’re not the only ones in the design community who’ve gone hog-wild—pigs are everywhere. Here’s the 411 on Berkus’s pet and a few others.
Delicious Details
The sleek interiors of these three new restaurants made us hungry for more information. So we zeroed in on the touches most applicable to residential design and asked the creative minds behind them how to bring these ideas home.
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At Cambium, very cool salt and pepper shakers made of water buffalo horn ($24); a three-bowl pewter snack set (round or square; each $45). The Simon Pearce crystal tea lights ($30 each) are from Sawbridge Studios.
—JAN PARR
Amazing Space!
We stopped in at Diana Ostreko’s Amazing Space in Oak Park a couple weeks ago and snagged this great vintage floor lamp—which is made of paper but looks like ceramic—for just $37. It’s about 16 inches wide and throws off great light. Everything in the store—including new and cool accessories from Roost and Global Views—is half off through the end of the month. Ostrenko is closing the store in January but will continue to sell online.
—JAN PARR