Domestica

September 2011

Yearbook, Design Harvest, Free Design Consults

09/29/11

Domestica | Yearbook, Design Harvest, Free Design Consults | Bradley Lincoln

I know we haven’t known each other very long, Yearbook, but I’m already enrolled in your fan club and hope we’ll be BFFs. This frosh new Forest Park vintage shop and design studio has opened with validation from mayor Anthony Calderone, extra credit from home-savvy headmasters, and hip-hip-hurrahs from shoppers...

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Randolph Street Market, Furnishings and Fine Crafts Show, Mitchell Gold Sale

09/22/11

Domestica | Randolph Street Market, Furnishings and Fine Crafts Show, Mitchell Gold Sale | Bradley Lincoln

There is always a lot of creative bang-for-the-buck action going on at the Randolph Street Market, with its subdivisions of an antique market, a modern vintage clique, and an indie designer market nesting like Russian dolls...

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Urban Orchard, Dock 6 Party, Vintage Bazaar

09/15/11

Domestica | Urban Orchard, Dock 6 Party, Vintage Bazaar | Bradley Lincoln

I stopped by the grand opening of A’ville’s newest grocery and retail destination, Urban Orchard (at 5212 North Clark Street, the old Urbanest space) last weekend, and it was a bustling scene...

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Sales at Branca and Twice, Street Fests

09/08/11

Domestica | Sales at Branca and Twice, Street Fests | Bradley Lincoln

Kelly Rauch’s interior design studio Twice is typically open only by appointment, but tomorrow night you can stop by 5400 West Belmont Avenue and check out all the services and products that are offered out of the atelier...

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Stuff, Missoni at Target, Chicago Luxury Beds’ New Look

09/01/11

Domestica | Stuff, Missoni at Target, Chicago Luxury Beds’ New Look | Bradley Lincoln

Chicagoan Karen Peterson was sick of shelling out storage fees to house the overflow of antiques, furniture, artwork, and home and garden accessories she loves to collect but had yet to find a place to use...

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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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