Kelly Rauch of the interior design, decorative painting, and upholstery studio Twice is a maestro at reinventing vintage furniture, but she’s not one to hog the spotlight. Read more
Dock 6 Collective is a group of independent furniture and cabinet makers, including Carson Maddox Studios, Lagomorph Design, zakrose (whose dresser is pictured here) and -ism furniture (check out our January/February 2011 story about them), who like to party... Read more
Some people do triathlons. Others do 5Ks. Personally, I like a nice kitchen walk. If you do too, check out the 27th Oak Park and River Forest Kitchen Walk Saturday, April 28 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.... Read more
Can it be eight years already that the Merchandise Mart has given Chicago designers pie-in-the-sky budgets to create fantasy rooms for its DreamHome installation?... Read more
The second epic season of Showtime’s lavish Renaissance series The Borgias starts up on Sunday, and I can’t think of anyone who isn’t excited about hooking up with that crazy back-stabbin’, arsenic-sprinklin’ papal family for round two (other than a few Medicis and Sforzas, perhaps)... Read more
The countrified goods at Andersonville’s Roost vintage shop have always seemed to be bursting at the seams of its two jam-packed storefronts... Read more