Yesterday afternoon, I deplaned into a space that, for me, was not unlike entering someone’s home—and a really cool home at that. I was in Seattle, in the new section of the SeaTac (Seattle-Tacoma) Airport.

Now, I’m a firm believer that you can judge a book by its cover. What better way to sell it (as […]

It’s kind of like this. Chicago is the Mother Ship of the Midwest, surrounded and fed by her satellites of St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Des Moines, Minneapolis…

Chicago’s big. She’s smart, powerful, beautiful–and on the global map. As a transplanted Angelina (L.A. native, not Babe o’ Brad) with a bi-coastal bent, I came […]

         
Today, as part of–oh, I don’t know…let’s call it some sort of ad hoc Spring Training-and-refresher-course-in-conservation, I happened across this little tidbit on page 127 of the New York Times Bestseller, The Little Green Book:

Get ceiling fans and use them instead of air conditioning. It costs just a penny an hour to […]

 
In Chicago, or planning a visit before May? Then you must head to the Art Institute for a stellar double feature: Edward Hopper and Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, presented as part of the museum’s American Perspectives: a yearlong celebration of American artistic vision. 
What can you, as a contemporary global citizen, learn from these […]

The weekend is ever so slowly approaching and you’re counting down the minutes until freedom. You peruse through blogs, repeatedly check your email - though you know there is nothing to respond to, and search obscure topics on wikipedia, but to no avail boredom is quickly setting in.
Don’t worry, theres a cure - in the […]

For those of you who have not had the pleasure of meeting her, or reading her regular commentaries on the hard copy pages of the Chiasso catalog, Nanette is the company’s CMO and CCO (chief merchandising and creative officer). She recently stopped by the Blogissimo virtual office for a chat.
Blogissimo: So you were recently in […]

Me thinks not since the Bauhaus era has Germany experienced such a burst of design creativity—BMWs notwithstanding. When I lived there in the early 80s all the homes were rather boxy—and I’m talking on the inside. While, ironically, as this is still a box, here’s just one example of Kreativität at work on a former […]

Find modern the way you want to live. We wanted to provide you with a exclusive peek at our new Spring 2008 Collection and hear what you have to say about our soft, luxurious and oh so comfortable new designs. It’s effortlessly chic, and you’re going to live it!
click here to leave your comments on […]

I don’t know about you, but that’s all I needed to hear before I immediately started fantasizing on how I was going to spend the money. Up to twelve hundred dollars! What a great present. I’ve actually never been happier to be married in my life.

The first thing I thought of was making a donation […]

With spring—tee-hee—just three weeks away, who can resist the urge to go a little au naturel? I’m speaking only of color and motifs, don’tcha know. Lucky for us, Chiasso has all things flora to fawn over—and, better still, there’s no formula to follow. So let’s get ready to let our hair down everywhere, shall we?
You […]