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Gina Bazer
Openings
By Gina Bazer & Barri Leiner Grant
Archisesto Architect Giacomo Ferrucci has expanded the selection at Archisesto, his 3,000-square-foot West Loop trade-only office furnishings showroom, to include three floors of contemporary Italian kitchens and bathroom lines not available anywhere else in the Midwest—and he has opened it to the public. Read more
Galerie du Maroc Move
By Gina Bazer
Moroccan furniture and accessories dealer Galerie du Maroc is moving to Bucktown (1917 N Damen), opening its doors August 28—just in time for the Wicker Park and Bucktown “Last Call” Summer Sidewalk Sale. Read more
The Great, Groovy Outdoors
By Gina Bazer & Barri Leiner Grant
Lawn furniture just keeps getting cooler. So cool, in the case of these chairs from the Paris-based design collaborative Outdoorz Gallery, that you’ll want to bring them inside to live with year-round. Read more
A New Lady
By Gina Bazer
The Painted Lady has opened its second location on (where else?) hopping Grand Avenue... Read more
Lighten Up
By Gina Bazer
Scout is hosting another Ted Harris lamp extravaganza on Friday night from 6 to 10 p.m.... Read more
Furniture Revival on the North Side
By Gina Bazer
Interior designer Crystal Blackshaw recently opened Chic Antique, a new refurbished/refinished vintage furniture shop in Lakeview, proving once again that grandma’s oldies can look new and fabulous again with some artistic vision and fresh coat of paint... Read more
White Stuff
By Gina Bazer
The lobby of the new Hotel Palomar Chicago, designed by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, offers an easy formula for how to inject a space with a sense of lightness and fun: Just add white... Read more
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
By Gina Bazer & Barri Leiner Grant
An appealingly lazy trend among pendant lamps—the option to suspend them from the ceiling or lie them on a flat surface to act as luminous table or floor sculptures Read more
Grand Gets Grander!
By Gina Bazer
Marian Kraus Photography and State Street Salvage (which has another location in Geneva that we covered in our May/June issue just joined the cool crowd (see “West is Best”, a recent Design Dose post) on Grand Avenue... Read more
Pelican Brief
By Gina Bazer
DWR’s August e-catalog has a reproduction of Finn Juhl’s Pelican chair (originally produced in 1941) on the cover and at the office, we’re split on what we think of this design... Read more