List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.625 million
The Property: In April 2003, Josh and Dawn Denberg paid $875,000 for a house with an extra-large lot on a charming brick street in Wilmette. (While the house, built in 1917, is clearly by a Prairie school designer, no one knows for sure the name of the architect.) The couple then...
September 2008
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I got an advance look at the Oak Park River Forest Showcase House on Thursday. My favorite rooms: Debbie Weber and Rod Maxwell’s dark chocolate/glam living room, with a wonderful faux grasscloth paint treatment. The fun “ladies’ lounge” on the top floor, created by Marge Ericksen of Oak Park’s Mixed Company, is also coolly glam. See the home through September 28.
—JAN PARR
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New York Fashion Week's Spring 2009 season kicked off today, and I'll be your guide to the shows and parties in the next few days.
The biggest difference I'm noticing so far between fashion week in New York and fashion week in Paris—Paris, I have done for a few seasons now; New York, it's my first time—is that New York is much more commercially sponsored...
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Thirty years ago, Jim Jones urged the residents of his “utopian” settlement in Jonestown, Guyana, to drink poison-spiked punch. In the three decades since, the event has lingered uncomfortably in the public memory: How did such a thing happen? Why?...
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I think I have an addiction. OK, I know I do. I’m BML and I am a monogram-aholic. My new fix is the monogramania that just launched at Jonathan Adler. Leave it to Mr. Tastefully Playful, who in all of his spare time (does he ever sleep?) launched a brand spanking new line of custom textiles. Llama rugs are $25 a square foot in any color combination and a variety of edging selections; wool pillows, $98, any way you like, and even a tote for $125 that you can make your very own. All the wool is hand-dyed and comes in the most delicious colors, creating infinite one-of-a-kind combinations we L-O-V-E. Check out the wall of fame at the Chicago store that we snapped. Orders take 10-12 weeks if you can stand to wait!
–Barri Leiner
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List Price: $3.295 million
The Property: Set behind a 15-foot-tall privacy hedge, this house in western Northbrook has 18 rooms, a pool and a tennis court, and an outdoor kitchen big enough to cater a swim meet or a tennis match. The contemporary-styled home has a monumental entry flanked by two hefty...
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If you were captivated by the Jeff Koons exhibit at the MCA, on view through September 21, and want to own one of his original pieces, the upcoming fine art sale at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is giving you a chance to pick one up. Lot number 49 is a set of three skateboards, painted with monkey faces in acrylics—the same distinctive style he used on these limited-edition beach towels on sale in the MCA giftshop for $60. This untitled, signed piece has an estimate of $3,000 to $4,000, but as Gina discovered in a previous blog adventure, that means bidding can start at $1,500. The auction is Sunday Sept. 7 and Monday Sept. 8; there are loads of terrific paintings and prints among the other 471 lots offered. I love the gutsy bravado of the Chicago imagists and am going to take a shot at some of the Roger Browns, Ed Paschkes, and Karl Wirsums on the block. Wish me luck.
—BRADLEY LINCOLN
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