Make Big Plans: No Olympics, but Mayor Daley has a slew of big projects for Chicago
Grading the mayor’s Olympic-sized projects
Year: 2009
Live from the Palace: Running the numbers on Bernard's Bar, the Gold Coast's new haute hangout in the Elysian Hotel
The Peninsula? The Four Seasons? The Ritz? Get me there, get me on a velvet couch—oh, and somebody get me a cocktail, please.
I’m a sucker for luxe hotel bars. That’s why, when an invite from the Elysian finally arrived in my inbox last week, I replied…
Window Dressing
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Arrelle Fine Linens is now offering in-home consulting and a window treatment service. The shop has enlisted veteran window treatment pro Phillip Bernal to help customers dress their windows. His services are free til the end of the year (normal charge is $150 per hour with a two-hour mininum for a home consult, but the fee can be applied toward purchases of $500 or more). Arrelle has also expanded its fabric selection to include more fabrics with ultraviolet protection, insulation, and light-blocking qualities. Too focused on the holidays to think about curtains and shades? The shop has great gifts and free gift wrapping.
—JAN PARR
PAWS Chicago’s Eighth Annual Fur Ball
November 13, 2009 – More than 600 attendees gathered at The Drake Hotel for an evening of elegance and compassion, raising more than $730,000 for Chicago’s homeless animals. The event catered to both people and pets with a dinner buffet and dancing. Sponsors included A. Marek Fine Jewelry, Bentley, and The Drake Hotel. Co-chairs were Diana and David Makowski along with Lori and Ted Souder. Corporate chairs were Amy and Julian Mack. Popular US99 DJ, Lisa Dent, auctioned off a signed Taylor Swift guitar which raised $10,000. The Eighth Annual Fur Ball was PAWS Chicago’s most successful event to date!
Baked!: Best cookbooks of 2009
Just in time for the holiday season, our annual roundup
Gelis at Primitive
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Through January 30, stop by Primitive’s showroom (like you need an excuse) and see the room vignette designed by designer Madeline Gelis. We attended the opening reception a few weeks ago and were wowed all over again by Primitive’s four floors of fabulousness.
—JAN PARR
Blagojevich and Charlie Chaplin Did Not Sleep Here
List Price: $1.499 million
The Property: Built in 1919 on a corner lot in Chicago’s Ravenswood Manor neighborhood, this house impresses on the outside with its brick construction and clay tile roof—and the spacious interior, with its many vintage details, is just as striking…
Finds Under $50 – 40 gifts for those on a budget
For a list of the stores featured here, see Where to Buy » Pencil case, $18, at Jayson Home & Garden Marvis toothpaste, $10.50, at Merz Apothecary Bottle screws, $13 for set of three, at Willow Early-TV stamps, $8.80 a booklet, at shop.usps.com Photography: Michael Boone … Read more
Heather and Yon
Sable on the Table
Heather Terhune, who has run the kitchen at Atwood Cafe (Hotel Burnham, 1 W. Washington St.; 312-368-1900) for ten years, plans to leave her post at year’s end to helm the upcoming…
Jonathan Sample Sale, Nate's New Show, Cozy Throws
Get to Johnathon, swift, if you want to take advantage of a storewide floor-sample sale. Everything in John Gray’s (a former Bravo TV Top Design contestant, don’t you know…) Lakeview home store is half-off, including this linear silver-leafed mirror which has been reduced to $600. The shop is at 3161 N. Halsted St.; the sale runs through Sunday. And remember when I told you about Zella Brown’s big clearance sale a couple of weeks ago? As it happens, Zella Brown’s owner, Trisha London…