Show It

By Gina Bazer and Barri Leiner

The biennial Lake Forest Showhouse and Gardens event is back, this time featuring a 22-acre Beaux Arts–style estate built in 1911 for the head of Rand McNally. Interior designers Michael Del Piero and Kara Mann and landscape artists Craig Bergmann and Rocco Fiore and Sons are among the 36 pros whose work is being showcased. Proceeds benefit the Infant Welfare Society. lakeforestshowhouse.com

April 25-May 17
$30 in advance
$35 at the door

 

Photograph: (Lake Forest) Linda Oyama Bryan

 
This article appears in the May - June 2009 issue of Chicago Home + Garden Magazine.

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