Week of 05/10/12

Modern Cooperative Opens in Pilsen

Things are happening in Pilsen, and I’m not just talking about gallery walks and foodies geeking out at Nightwood

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Week of 05/03/12

Dock 6 Collective Open House

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...

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Week of 04/26/12

Oak Park/River Forest Kitchen Walk

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....

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Week of 04/19/12

A Sprout of a Different Kind

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things; of designer sales and clean-lined tips; of cabbage rose wallpaper and bling.”

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Week of 04/12/12

DreamHome Opens at the Mart

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?...

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Week of 04/05/12

Borgias Tribute at MaxAlto, Architecture & Design Film Fest

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)...

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Week of 03/29/12

New Shops! The Hutch, Circa Modern

The countrified goods at Andersonville’s Roost vintage shop have always seemed to be bursting at the seams of its two jam-packed storefronts...

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Week of 03/22/12

Apartment 528 Sale, Pyar Pillows, Golden Triangle Celebrates Local Talent

You can shop India Shannon’s online stock of handmade housewares, vintage furniture, and quirky gift items any time of the day or night, or make an appointment to visit her space...

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Week of 03/15/12

Shopping the MCA, Free Renovation Consults, P.O.S.H. Sale

I was really into the late-1980s art scene in Chicago, working in galleries and gadding about, so checking out the MCA’s current show, This Will Have Been: Art and Politics in the 1980s, was high on my to-do list...

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