Wait a minute… that’s not the question. The question is, who decorated the Green Room for the Daytime Emmys? Of course you know from reading this blog that Chicagoans Christopher Michiels and Sheri Zeman did! They just sent this snap of Sheri (left) in the room with Bobby Ewing and an associate. They’re standing in front of Sheri’s textural art panels. Toto, we’re not in Southfork anymore!
—JAN PARR
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Wait a minute… that’s not the question. The question is, who decorated the Green Room for the Daytime Emmys? Of course you know from reading this blog that Chicagoans Christopher Michiels and Sheri Zeman did! They just sent this snap of Sheri (left) in the room with Bobby Ewing and an associate. They’re standing in front of Sheri’s textural art panels. Toto, we’re not in Southfork anymore!
—JAN PARR
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Wait a minute… that’s not the question. The question is, who decorated the Green Room for the Daytime Emmys? Of course you know from reading this blog that Chicagoans Christopher Michiels and Sheri Zeman did! They just sent this snap of Sheri (left) in the room with Bobby Ewing and an associate. They’re standing in front of Sheri’s textural art panels. Toto, we’re not in Southfork anymore!
Wait a minute… that’s not the question. The question is, who decorated the Green Room for the Daytime Emmys? Of course you know from reading this blog that Chicagoans Christopher Michiels and Sheri Zeman did! They just sent this snap of Sheri (left) in the room with Bobby Ewing and an associate. They’re standing in front of Sheri’s textural art panels. Toto, we’re not in Southfork anymore!
List Price: $1.899 million The Property: Among the sharpest buildings from the city’s recent years of condo buildup is the five-year-old Contemporaine, a modern 15-story concrete and glass design by the estimable Ralph Johnson. Read more
Hobnob with the ninth Earl of Spencer (that would be Charles, brother of the late, lovely Diana, Princess of Wales) at Barrington’s Honquest Furniture for Living, this coming Tuesday, September 8 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Charlie is in town to meet and greet fans... Read more
Christopher Kowalski’s home may not be his castle, but his guesthouse sure is. A three-bedroom castle complete with turrets, gargoyles, and rooftop battlements, the guesthouse stands about 50 yards away from the four-bedroom Tudor home where Kowalski and his wife, Grace, have lived since 1990... Read more
Three dispatches about happiness:
According to a new homeowner confidence survey from Zillow.com, homeowners in the Midwest are more glum about the near-term future of the value of their homes than their counterparts in the rest of the country. The survey, released Tuesday, comes on the heels of... Read more
I had dinner recently at Nightwood, a wonderful place from the Lula Café people (see our story about the fantastic artwork at Lula here that was designed by Kevin Heisner (Empire Liquors, Bar DeVille, Angels & Kings). While going to the bathroom was not the highlight of the evening, I was impressed by howstylin’ it was for a loo (don’t laugh—we take bathroom design seriously around here!). It felt like it belonged in a vintage apartment more than arestaurant, actually. Heisner and his team did all the moldings and painted them in Benjamin Moore’s Honey Oak to match the handmade Moroccan cement tiles on the floor (from the online dealer Mosaic House. I love the black sink, too, though it could use some nicer pipes sticking out underneath. If you want a vintage look that feels fresh, try this for inspiration.
It’s almost August yet it feels like summer just started, with all that less-than-beachy weather and whatnot. Oh well, if life gives you lemons, you can still make a vodka lemonade, and there’s plenty of time to legally still wear your white skinnies... Read more
If our kitchen and bath issue flushed you with excitement, come on out tomorrow, July 23, 6:00 - 9:00, for a night of tips, talks, and 'teezers at Community Home Supply, 3924 N. Lincoln Avenue. (For such a deceptively proletarian moniker, this showroom has an inspiring selection of the latest domestic and European home fixtures... Read more
The PrairieMod Design Group’s lease is up on their Wheaton offices, and they’ll be moving to a smaller location in Lisle at the end of this month. The new space doesn’t have room for the product inventory they stocked for the PrairieMod outlet store... Read more
In between noshing on Tibetan dumplings and viewing a pre-release screening of Frederick Marx’s moving documentary film Journey From Zanskar at a fundraiser a couple Saturdays ago, Primitive owner Glen Joffe and PR pro Dan Davis took the time to give us a tour of the grounds and show off some fantastic African movie posters Read more