Fill Your Weekend With Design Events in Chicago

By Alice Oglethorpe

Choose from the Merchandise Mart Sample Sale, the Renegade Craft Fair, and a cool new exhibit at Paperish Mess—or fit them all in! Read more

Here Are Two Cool Chairs Up for Auction at Chairs For Charity

Thirteen designers' chairs will go on the block September 18 at Cosentino Center. Here's a face-off between two of them: Tiffany Brooks vs. Nicholas Moriarty. Read more

Designer Craighton Berman Doesn't Believe in Automatic Kitchen Gadgets

By Alice Oglethorpe

A new line of kitchen tools called Manual, out this fall, have the tactile feel of these Pinch salt and pepper shakers. Read more

Zerobird Studio's Pillow Fight Collection Is Aggressively Adorable

By Alice Oglethorpe

Screen prints of martial artists, fencers, and monsters add just the right type of combat to your couch. Read more

Remix Chicago Is a Small But Mighty Festival Devoted to Repurposing

By Alice Oglethorpe

This weekend, visit Logan Square for an arts and crafts fair that celebrates goods made from recycled materials. Read more

HGTV Pops Up at The Shops at North Bridge

By Alice Oglethorpe

Can't get enough of HGTV? Now you can shop your television guilty pleasure in your own backyard—plus meet HGTV star Meg Caswell and Kitchen Crashers host Alison Victoria. Read more

A New Home Shop Is Opening in Oak Park This Weekend

By Alice Oglethorpe

Find modern, eco-friendly decor at Refind, which opens August 31. Read more

Get a Beautifully Detailed Drawing of Your House (or Someone Else's)

By Alice Oglethorpe

Artist Phil Thompson's renderings of Chicago greystones, brick two-flats, and six-unit courtyard buildings are too charming to pass up. Read more

This Weekend Will Be Buzzing With Design Events and Sales

By Alice Oglethorpe

There's a party at Lillstreet Art Center, the American Craft Expo is in Evanston, a sale is on at BoConcept, and a ton of vintage wares are at Randolph Street Market. Read more

Get Awesome Lamps By Ted Harris at Scout on Friday Night

By Gina Bazer

Get to the Andersonville antique store early in the evening—this collection of 100 unique lamps won't last. Read more

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