Now that we’ve put in most of our holiday gift ideas , it’s time to branch out! The Soup & Bread cookbook by local writer Martha Bayne... Read more
TABLE IT: We love how these dining rooms combine elegance and practicality. Best part? None are so formal that you’d worry about spilling Read more
Furniture maker Michael Dreeben always seems to have a new project up his sleeve. We first covered him in 2008, but his most recent endeavor is AKMD Collection... Read more
ON THE MAKE: Greta de Parry is not your typical woodworker-welder. For one thing, she earns a small stipend while creating whatever she wants (“I could whittle little fox terriers all day,” she jokes) as the sole artist-in-residence at Lake Bluff’s Crab Tree Farm, a working farm that’s also a design incubator... Read more
Angela Finney-Hoffman of Post27 always finds the coolest stuff for her shop! These bookends made by Garth Borovicka... Read more
The second in a series of our staffers’ recommendations for gifts for the design-savvy on your list... Read more