Every year, Travel + Leisure magazine assembles a panel of taste-vetting arbiters to pick the best-designed new products and buildings for its design awards... Read more
Chicago florist Mike Hines has been creating artistic, atypical, not-your-grocery-store-variety arrangements for private clients and upmarket hotels for the past ten years, at his lofty Epoch studio on the West Side... Read more
Nebraskan HGTV buff Marilyn Wilson noticed a lot of chirpy television personalities struggling to maneuver unwieldy headboards up narrow stairwells and into bedrooms, and thought that there ought to be an easier way of spiffing up a boudoir... Read more
For decades, the independently owned Parkway Drugs served the pharmacy and shopping needs of Chicago residents with style and personality, providing a fine selection of gifts, magazines, and housewares to peruse while waiting for those curative creams and pill prescriptions to be filled... Read more
We may be skirting ankle-deep curbsides of slush and scraping Mesozoic layers of ice off windshields, but Aussies are currently enjoying the heady heat of summer, probably planning what to throw on their barbies Monday (that’s the national holiday Australia Day, the equivalent of our Fourth of July)... Read more
Can you persuade your weimaraner to vamp on a Wassily chair? Or coax kitty to strike a pose on that Corbusier couch? If so, you might be able to win some sweet modernist merchandise courtesy of Modernica’s Pets on Furniture contest. Read more
To celebrate el Año Nuevo, the substantial expansion of her Chicago Lawn vintage furniture store An Orange Moon, and just simply life itself, owner Lynne McDaniel is throwing a party this Friday and it’s destined to be a doozy. Read more
The cucumber-cool, mid-century-minded Torontonian furniture company Gus Modern has a no-brainer “Keep On Giving!” deal going on for the month of January at all of its retailers, including local dealers Stitch and I.D.Read more
You have only until January 8 to witness the beginning of a new Chicago holiday tradition, the decorating of the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute. Read more
