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If you love the whole Dale Chihuly-colored-glass thing, you’ll want to check out Prodigy Glassworks, a new studio I recently spotted on the happening Harrison Street strip in Oak Park, (on the way to yoga, natch). Matt Kwilas and Bob Johnson moved the studio from Westmont—both have experience in big-name studios like the Corning Museum of Glass. Let them make something for your home or garden, or take a class.

—JAN PARR

At Wright auction house one recent evening, we thought maybe we were in L.A, except for the foot of snow outside. The people-watching was great for the opening of interior designer Kathy Taslitz’s new sculptural furniture collection, called Pieces of Ourselves. The pieces are no longer on display at Wright, but she’s opening a showroom soon. In the meantime, see the collection on her Web site.

—JAN PARR

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My new husband and his son recently moved into my house, which meant some rearranging and merging of furnishings. So far, good. We decided that my coffee table, a gorgeous expandable, slatted walnut piece from my parents’ home in the 1960s, would look better as a bench against the wall in our entrance. So now we hunt a coffee table. There’s way too much wood in our home—a 1920s bungalow with quarter-sawn oak molding and oak shutters. So more wood is out of the question. Molded plastic is too modern. Glass-topped on thin legs would be fine. I love this Kagan one from Pegboard Modern, but it still might be too much wood. I had a wild idea that the Link sidetable from CB2 would look good. My husband is not convinced.

—JAN PARR