Join members of the British Interior Design Group at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lecture Hall Gallery (224 S. Michigan Avenue) to learn tricks of the trade from across the pond. The event takes place Thursday, June 10 from 5:30 -7:00 p.m., and features James Charles of James Charles Design, Simon Hamilton of Simon Hamilton & Associates, and Julia Wong and Guy Oliver of Oliver-Laws. The group will help find solutions to your design problems and share tales of their many celebrity clients. Laura Patterson of HGTV will moderate. Tickets are $10 for CAF members; $15 for non-members.
—Elizabeth Frantz
Image courtesy of Simon Hamilton & Associates
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Join members of the British Interior Design Group at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lecture Hall Gallery (224 S. Michigan Avenue) to learn tricks of the trade from across the pond. The event takes place Thursday, June 10 from 5:30 -7:00 p.m., and features James Charles of James Charles Design, Simon Hamilton of Simon Hamilton & Associates, and Julia Wong and Guy Oliver of Oliver-Laws. The group will help find solutions to your design problems and share tales of their many celebrity clients. Laura Patterson of HGTV will moderate. Tickets are $10 for CAF members; $15 for non-members.
—Elizabeth Frantz
Image courtesy of Simon Hamilton & Associates
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Join members of the British Interior Design Group at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lecture Hall Gallery (224 S. Michigan Avenue) to learn tricks of the trade from across the pond. The event takes place Thursday, June 10 from 5:30 -7:00 p.m., and features James Charles of James Charles Design, Simon Hamilton of Simon Hamilton & Associates, and Julia Wong and Guy Oliver of Oliver-Laws. The group will help find solutions to your design problems and share tales of their many celebrity clients. Laura Patterson of HGTV will moderate. Tickets are $10 for CAF members; $15 for non-members.
Join members of the British Interior Design Group at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lecture Hall Gallery (224 S. Michigan Avenue) to learn tricks of the trade from across the pond. The event takes place Thursday, June 10 from 5:30 -7:00 p.m., and features James Charles of James Charles Design, Simon Hamilton of Simon Hamilton & Associates, and Julia Wong and Guy Oliver of Oliver-Laws. The group will help find solutions to your design problems and share tales of their many celebrity clients. Laura Patterson of HGTV will moderate. Tickets are $10 for CAF members; $15 for non-members.
A 125-year-old brick and sandstone Queen Anne–style mansion at 28th Street and Prairie Avenue is on the market for the first time ever. As you will see in the video, the 24-room house—which withstood white flight, as well as the construction (and subsequent demolition) of a public... Read more
A year after stepping down from the committee for the Jeff Awards, the local organization that vets and gives out annual excellence awards for Chicagoland theatre productions, I was worried they’d get it all wrong at last night’s ceremony for non-Equity theatre, what with my all-important vote no longer counting... Read more
The City and Regional Magazine Association honored Chicago magazine with four awards at the 2010 CRMA Conference on June 7th in Providence, Rhode Island. Competing amid 142 finalists representing 38 publications, Chicago magazine was recognized for the following coverage. Read more
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The new Hermès(25 E. Oak St.; 312-787-8175, hermes.com) holds its grand opening event on Thursday, June 10th in the former Barneys New York location... Read more
One of the pleasures of working in a ceramics studio full of other people, as I do, at the Hyde Park Art Center, is that I get to see some beautiful things being made and talk to the people making them. Some of the most appealing pieces I’ve seen up close lately are made by Amanda Gentry. Her elegant forms and smooth, smooth surfaces are so nice to touch, they pretty much beg to be picked up. All of her pieces are hand-thrown, and all are food-, dishwasher-, and microwave-safe. Or you can just hold them! Amanda sells these small porcelain salt and pepper cellars ($30 for the pair) and other lovable cups, bowls, and serving pieces on Etsy.
On the first day of his trial, Rod Blagojevich encountered two students from Chicago’s John Marshall Law School. When the students approached Blago to introduce themselves, he “shook their hands and told them that he once tried to enroll at their school,” according to Stacy St. Clair’s report in the Chicago Tribune. “‘I applied there on Monday and was rejected Tuesday…. That's why I'm not defending myself.’” Not true... Read more
Michael Flowers, who styled Michelle Obama’s hair from the time she was 18 up to and including the day of her husband’s inauguration, is putting his salon, Van Cleef Hair Studio, up for sale. Flowers and his partner, Daryl Wells, who also runs the studio (at 56 West Huron Street), want to retire to Costa Rica, where they own land, Wells says. Read more
Sunday night’s victory brought the Blackhawks within one game of taking home the Stanley Cup—and, other than the United Center, what better place to watch the drama unfold than at the aptly named Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap? Our photographer dropped by the Lincoln Park bar to snap locals’ reactions to game 5... Read more
