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Twice Chic
Julia Edelmann’s dining room (left) and a giant cast-concrete clam shell (right) at SG Grand Ever since they met at a trade show in Atlanta six years ago (two Midwesterners catching each other’s eye across a room crowded with East Coasters), interior designer Julia Buckingham Edelmann of Buckingham I + D and Debra Phillips, landscape … Read more
Transformers
We often get excited when we encounter an old, heavy, banged-up factory pallet or something in a salvage shop and imagine we’ll turn it into a really cool table. And then . . . we have to admit we don’t have the chops. Enter State Street Salvage, where Kevin Hanley, an alum of Les … Read more
Amy Butler Shower Curtains
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I’ve got my eye on this new shower curtain from Amy Butler for Welspun. Sophisticated and graphic, it’s at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Butler has a couple of other terrific new curtains for the same price—very Anthropologie-esque. They’re only $40 each.
—JAN PARR
Vintagey Books
Designer Anthropologie. —GINA BAZER
One Fish, Two Fish … Fab Fish!
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This new fish “bowl” from Umbra is made of glass with a plastic outer shell (the glass portion is removable for cleaning). Individual dwellings can be stacked to create a fish hotel. It’s eight inches tall and $30 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation Shop.
—GINA BAZER
Photo courtesy of Umbra
Art at Scout, Z Gallerie’s Resurrection, Textiles at Maze
One of my favorite Chicago art galleries (Corbett vs. Dempsey)and one of my favorite Chicago home stores (Scout) are hooking up tomorrow, June 17, and you’re all invited to catch the canoodling at a reception at Scout from 5–8 p.m….
Heywood Wakefield Auction
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Have an eye for vintage modern furniture? We do too. Former Heywood Wakefield furniture showroom of Three Oaks, Mich.—Springdale Furnishings—has closed its doors and will auction off its impressive collection of dining, bedroom, and living room furniture at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 19th in Hartford, Mich., about two hours from Chicago. Some 250 carefully restored pieces will be on the block, as well as 1,450-plus pieces in slightly distressed condition.
—Elizabeth Frantz
Reagan Doctrine
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I really love the new Reagan Hayes Collection at the David Sutherland showroom at the Mart (suite 1800). If you’re over there for NeoCon, be sure to stop by and see it for yourself.
—JAN PARR