Randolph Street Market Buys
I made my first visit to The Randolph Street Market this weekend, and had a great but toasty afternoon in the sun…
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Seltzer Studios
In November of 2009, Kalil had a soft “opening” for her online store, Seltzer Studios, named for her obsession with vintage seltzer bottles, which she has been collecting for 20 years. A real potpourri of fun-meets-functional…
Twice as Nice
It’s always fun to score an old piece of furniture with the intention of reinventing it, but the process can involve multiple trips to various vendors—the thrift store to buy it, the refinisher to clean it up, the upholsterer to cover it in new fabric. Artist and interior designer Kelly Rauch had a novel idea: … Read more
This New Old House
A Victorian home gets the kitchen and breakfast room it long deserved
Crosell & Co. Sale
The Bucktown/Wicker Park Summer Sizzle sidewalk sale is this weekend and we hear Crosell & Co. will have some great deals…
Designs By Maida Sidewalk Sale
Designs by Maida in Woodstock is holding a sidewalk sale this Friday and Saturday, with good deals to be had on bedding, lighting, furniture, gifts, decorative objects, and more…
Catalog Living, Pagoda Red Moving Sale, Secrets of the New Antiquers
I’m a big fan of home and furniture catalogs (as inconveniently eco-unfriendly as that may be–but I do recycle them!) but the photo-styling has been known to occasionally stump and bemuse me…
Kitchen Centric
If there was any doubt that Chicago’s reigning rock star of kitchen design is Mick De Giulio, his new book, Kitchen Centric (Balcony Press, $65), dispels it…
The Henry Collection
Waterworks’ new bathroom fittings collection, Henry (named after the auto inventor Henry Ford), was influenced by the work of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school…
Scenes from the Dearborn Garden Walk
Yesterday, the Dearborn Garden Association hosted its 52nd annual Dearborn Garden Walk. I braved the July heat to take the self-guided walking tour, which allowed access to some 20 blissfully shady Gold Coast gardens, seven of which were outfitted with vignettes inspired by celluloid hits…