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Year: 2009

Kitchen Walk Kick Off Event

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August 13th — Designs for Dignity held their first Kick Off event for the 2009 Kitchen Walk hosted by Artemide. More than 350 attendees sipped on cocktails from Grey Goose and Martini & Rossi. Catering was provided by Piccolo Sogno and great raffle prizes were coveted by the party goers. Celebrity raffle puller Jan Parr was on hand to dole out fabulous prizes to the winners. The event raised nearly $6,000 for Designs for Dignity. The Kitchen Walk event will be held on Saturday, October 17th in Michigan’s beautiful Harbor Country. Visit www.designsfordignity.org for more info or to purchase tickets!

Going Grunge

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Yesterday I blogged about how grain sack upholstery can make an antique chair more casual. But if you want to be really casual, go for patched-up old truck tarps on your cushions, like the ones on this steel and teak Cargo chair by CS Basics which I saw while I was at ABC Carpet & Home last week in New York. At $1,200 a chair, this is the interior design equivalent of really expensive torn denim. Yet there’s something appealing about it. Perhaps it’s that there’s no reason to worry about ruining it—it’s already ruined.

—GINA BAZER

The Audacity of 'Hope'

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Don’t-miss picks for 09.16.09 through 09.22.09: Ravinia wraps with a biggie … Thomas Frank weighs in on Kansas … Beer returns for one night only … and in Freebies: Joffrey alfresco, plus Dybek, Kotlowitz, and Baryshnikov sightings

Burr Ridge Drops Out of the $1-Million Club

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Chicago’s annual real estate-charts in its October 2009 issue (which hits newsstands this week) reveal lots of declines in both sale prices and the number of homes sold in 288 Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. But one decline demands a closer look: what happened in Burr Ridge? That suburb…