Domestica

May 2011

Domestica: Garden Talk, Randolph Street Market Opening, Vintage Galore

05/26/11

Domestica | Domestica: Garden Talk, Randolph Street Market Opening, Vintage Galore | Bradley Lincoln

Dollars to doughnuts, the eateries of pioneering restaurateurs in under-the-radar hoods leads to an increased number of home design stores and other independent ventures...

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FoundRe Opening, Ugly Kitchen Contest, Barley Twist’s New Twist

05/19/11

Domestica | FoundRe Opening, Ugly Kitchen Contest, Barley Twist’s New Twist | Bradley Lincoln

After more than a decade of experience as a professional custom framer, graphic designer, and furniture maker, beginning from a two-car garage on the North Side, Kansas expat Raun Meyn is branching out with his own Wicker Park retail store this weekend...

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Vintage Galore, Stylish Strolls, Mart Sample Sale

05/12/11

Domestica | Vintage Galore, Stylish Strolls, Mart Sample Sale | Bradley Lincoln

The fifth annual CANstruction design contest/benefit for the Greater Chicago Food Depository gets cooking tonight in the lobby of the Merchandise Mart, with a $25-ticket judging party from 6–8:30 p.m...

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A New Marimekko Store, S. Lloyd Natof Event, Secrets of the Stylists

05/05/11

Domestica | A New Marimekko Store, S. Lloyd Natof Event, Secrets of the Stylists | Bradley Lincoln

Crate & Barrel has been showing and selling the bold and joyful fabrics of Finland’s Marimekko company since the mid 1960s, and often uses the material to perk up store displays and distinctively swoop around its retail locations like titanic toilet paperings...

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ABOUT THIS BLOG

Gina Bazer and Alice Oglethorpe

Domestica is an online extension of the inspiration, advice, and scoop that the Chicago Home + Garden minimag provides four times a year inside Chicago magazine. Here, Chicago magazine style and Home + Garden editor Gina Bazer (left) and contributing blogger Alice Oglethorpe (right), along with guest bloggers, dish on home design trends, discuss design obsessions and dilemmas, share spaces they love, and bring you the latest local design news, from sales to events.

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Photograph: (Bazer) Anna Knott

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