More than 600 artists are heading to the Merchandise Mart next week to set up for the 11th annual One of a Kind Show, a four-day marketplace of handmade furniture, jewelry, clothing, serving pieces, and art... Read more
ON THE MAKE: Greta de Parry is not your typical woodworker-welder. For one thing, she earns a small stipend while creating whatever she wants (“I could whittle little fox terriers all day,” she jokes) as the sole artist-in-residence at Lake Bluff’s Crab Tree Farm, a working farm that’s also a design incubator... Read more
Bust out the brilliantine and lint-roll the sharkskin, cats, because tomorrow night Lynne and Ty McDaniel are having a stomp-the-floor party to celebrate the opening of An Orange Moon’s new Wicker Park perch at 2418 West North Avenue... Read more
Ninety-nine percent of Chicago’s art and design community is rallying behind the symbiotic pairing of the SOFA (Sculpture Objects and Functional Art) and Intuit (Folk and Outsider) art fairs going on at the tip-top of Navy Pier this weekend... Read more
Last fall’s first-ever Chairs for Charity event lured more than 200 fun party people to the Tile Gallery, and raised about $10,000 for Designs for Dignity... Read more
This painterly sampling of items will be available at Les Tableaux’s pre-holiday open house and overstock sale this Saturday, Oct. 22, from 10–5... Read more
Silver is the traditional gift for a 25-year anniversary, and making it that long is a sterling achievement for any business or relationship... Read more
The Chicago Architecture Foundation has an ambitious citywide DIY tour weekend coming up October 15–16, and it’s a great opportunity to gain rare access to more than 100 of the city’s most interesting historical and newly constructed residences, office buildings, retail and hospitality hotspots, cultural and holy hallows, and institutions of higher learning and social services... Read more
