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…
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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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This past spring, for the International Antiques Fair at the Merchandise Mart, we asked three interior designers—Greg Jagmin, Julia Buckingham Edelmann, and Hillery Estes—to create vignettes for us that use antiques in a fresh way. What did we learn? That antiques are not stodgy if given a chance to be hip. Take inspiration from these … Read more
So many ways to hang things on the powder-coated aluminum Arrow Hanger by Gustav Hallén for Design House Stockholm, we want to try them all. Flip the shaft down (above) and it holds conventional hangers; keep it upright (right) and use the highly graphic arrow as a hook, or hooks. It comes in several colors, … Read more
