Being in Seattle is like visiting someone’s home you admire: it’s in the perfect setting (perched on a beautiful Sound). There’s heirloom stuff in it, new stuff in it and stuff in-between. You know it wasn’t put together all at once, nor may it look exactly the same the next time you see it. But, […]

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 […]

 
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 […]

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?
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Okay, so let’s say this weekend, you’ve been inspired by thoughts of Spring (in most parts of the country arriving not a moment too soon), leafing through a catalog (Chiasso), seeing an actual in-home, turned on version of the Wave fireplace you saw in the Chiasso catalog (on a new episode of HGTV’s Divine Design), […]

I came to this conclusion last night when I had the occasion to entertain a group of women in my home. Now, mind you, I’m not normally insecure about where I live. In fact, it suits me just fine. It has all the space I need, I am grateful to have it and understand that […]

Miami: 82 and sunny. Chicago: 27 and…enough said. 
Nice weather can definitely change your outlook on everything—even design. Still, the Miami Modernism Show, for which I had escaped the comforts of 14 inches of snow to attend, was a disappointment because, with the exception of only a handful of the 60+ dealers who had come from […]

I was getting my nails done in a Vietnamese salon the other day, one with a particularly fine sound system I might add, and wanting to hold my hand out to examine the new copper shade I had eschewed for my usual Lincoln Park After Dark, when out wafts the most intriguing, almost-but-not-quite familiar music.
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No, it’s not a typo, but it is a reason to visit Chicago in the dead of winter. You with the earmuffs. You heard me right. Now start packing. P.S. If you’re a local, you’re in luck. Here’s why. First picture Millennium Park—the affectionately nicknamed Bean (aka Anish Kapoor’s massive Cloud Gate sculpture), Frank Gehry’s […]