Mixed Message

Forget matchy-matchy. Handmade and hand-finished porcelain pieces—in styles both delicate and bold—play well with each other.

Welcome To Smallville

I occasionally get e-mails or calls from enthusiastic people telling me about a home they are sure will wow me. The first thing they emphasize: It’s huge! Twenty thousand square feet! Or more! As though this alone will make me want to run and see the place. It does not. Is it 20,000 square feet … Read more

Vintage for All

Wondering whatever happened to Tragara, that funky little vintage shop on Lincoln Avenue? It has been reincarnated in River North as K. Palmer, and it’s no longer so little.