A Designphile Lives Here

Help your friends find your home easily and give your street the gift of public art with this head-turning example of form meeting function

By Barri Leiner
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Your very own address can be cast, sculpturally, in hand-poured aluminum by Designer House Numbers, $800, 847-432-8369; designerhousenumbers@gmail.com

 

photograph: leonard gertz

 
This article appears in the September - October 2007 issue of Chicago Home + Garden Magazine.

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