2011 Merchandise Mart Dream Home is very dreamy indeed
This is Michael Del Piero’s beautiful interpretation of a home office at Merchandise Mart’s 2011 Dream Home. She used a neutral Maya Romanoff wall covering made with handmade textured paper that...
View ArticleIt’s a nice time of year for a kitchen walk . . .
There’s a big kitchen walk this weekend. Here’s Rebekah Zaveloff, of KitchenLab and Design in a Bag, with all the details: For 26 years, the Parenthesis Kitchen Walk has been a much anticipated...
View ArticleOpen House: Johanna Lowe’s Buchanan home
Johanna Lowe’s 150 year old Buchanan, Michigan home is one of the many country cool spaces featured in the latest issue of Chicago Home + Garden. Like many before her, Johanna, was charmed by...
View ArticleJinx you owe me a coke! Coincidence or design doppleganger?
Top photo: The dining room in my Edgewater Glen apartment. Bottom photo: The family room in my friend JB’s Highland Park home, which I’ve photographed twice, the first time a couple of years ago for a...
View ArticleLife’s a beach for Barri Leiner Grant
In the four-bedroom Lakeview apartment Barri Leiner Grant shares with her husband and two daughters, seashells, mattress ticking and weathered antiques commingle with crystal, velvet and silver to...
View ArticleAce Hotel Palm Springs design lessons
I just returned from 11 days in California, four of which were spent in a very smart, super comfortable, uber-cool two room suite at the Ace Hotel, which is my new favorite place to stay in Palm...
View ArticleMid-Century Sale – Sat 9/24 and Sun 9/25 (sponsored)
Attention mid-century modern lovers: The Christian Science Reading Room in Oak Park will be closing on October 1st, and Amazing Space’s Diana Ostreko will be selling off their stellar collection of...
View ArticleNeighbors Say the Darndest Things
A few months ago, I was chatting with my neighbor, Judy, who is sort of a neighborhood legend, known for her involvement with the community and the local church (not to mention the raucous back porch...
View ArticleRoundup!
Recently I’ve been kind of obsessed with Lindsey Adelman Studios and their fantastic lighting collection. If you don’t have 15 big ones to drop on one of their custom chandeliers, Lindsey Adelman...
View ArticleOpen House: Mary’s Logan Square 3-Flat
Earlier this year I met Janet, a very talented interior designer who lives in a massive, gorgeous apartment in a vintage Logan Square 3-Flat. After I finished shooting Janet’s place, she introduced me...
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