Haute Living is having a floor sample sale. Save 35 to 50% off regular retail. Rugs, lighting, and furniture are included. See all the sale items here or stop by the showroom at 222 W. Kinzie.

—JAN PARR

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Haute Living is having a floor sample sale. Save 35 to 50% off regular retail. Rugs, lighting, and furniture are included. See all the sale items here or stop by the showroom at 222 W. Kinzie.

—JAN PARR

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Haute Living is having a floor sample sale. Save 35 to 50% off regular retail. Rugs, lighting, and furniture are included. See all the sale items here or stop by the showroom at 222 W. Kinzie.

—JAN PARR

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September 2009
Haute Sale

Haute Living is having a floor sample sale. Save 35 to 50% off regular retail. Rugs, lighting, and furniture are included. See all the sale items here or stop by the showroom at 222 W. Kinzie.

—JAN PARR

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The Great Terrace — Glencoe
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.2 million
The Property: A new ten-room residence on a quiet block-long street that ends at a Lake Michigan overlook, this house has an overlook of its own: a super-sized third-story terrace with a view over the ranch house next door to the lake. Read more
The Sun Also Rises
Two Floors of Japan

After a year of business, Farmerie 58 (58 E. Ontario St.), a massive Gold Coast space with an identity crisis (farm-oriented bistro? Raw bar? Pub?), has closed. The current plan calls for the ground level to reopen later this fall as a sushi bar with Ming San (formerly of Rise) as the sushi chef. If all goes as expected, the upstairs will eventually unveil as a Read more
Staff Décor, Martha, Design Parties, and More
By Bradley Lincoln
Joanne Trestrail, one of Chicago Home + Garden’s senior editors, wears a lot of hats. In addition to being a fellow copy-cat, she runs all over town as a food critic for Chicago magazine, has taught photography at Jane Addams Hull House, and is an accomplished artist. Read more
5 Theatre Picks
Don't-miss events for 09.23.09 through 09.29.09: Top shows from this week's theatre bill; for our full Fall Theatre Preview, pick up the October issue of Chicago, on stands now. Plus: X's and O's from a real-life Gossip Girl and free jazz in Hyde Park Read more
High Fidelity

Desginphiles and audiophiles, listen up. The local company Specimen Products, which for 20 years has been building custom guitars, horn speakers, and more for the likes of Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Tweedy, and Neko Case, just came out with these cool Little Horn Speakers. Available in several colors, the horns are made from lacquered fiberglass on a lacquered 8-inch birch plywood cube. Dimensions are: 36 inches high from base to top, 14 inches in diameter (the horn). A pair starts at $1,850.These speakers (in a larger version) have graced many a stage with Chicago indie fave Andrew Bird. Love this melding of graceful design with industry cred. Check out the Specimen Web site for more details.

—GINA BAZER

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The Hardest-Hit Communities
By Dennis Rodkin
Each October, with help from Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicago publishes its annual real-estate chart, which, among other things, shows the average price of a house in all 77 city neighborhoods and more than 200 suburbs. The chart also notes how this year’s prices compare to the prior year and to 1994, the earliest year for which MRED has data for most of those neighborhoods and towns. Usually that comparison with 1994 is a heartening measure of the long-term growth in the value of a Chicago-area home. Read more
Couture Jewelry Boutique in Northbrook
By Bridget Maiellaro
Starting when she was 18 and an engineering student at University of California at Berkeley, Julie Liu taught herself how to design jewelry. Her hobby of creating necklaces, rings, and earrings for friends and family grew into a word-of-mouth business. Eventually, Liu quit her job as a hedge-fund manager and, in July, opened a jewelry boutique at the Northbrook Court mall. Located on the upper level of the Neiman Marcus corridor... Read more
Glass with Class

Our art director Megan Duffy Rostan alerted me to some gorgeous glass candlesticks that can be attained at two price points: high and low.  Shown at left, Juliska’s line at Tabula Tua, mouth-blown by artisans in the hills of Prague, with those charming bubbles adding character, starting at $135. At right, the Lumiere collection at CB2, hand-blown in China, very cheap-yet-chic, starting at $3.With the holiday season coming up, each of these options is worth checking out—after all, nothing says festive like an elegant grouping of candles on the table.

—GINA BAZER

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