Each day, you hear more and more about authenticity-this and authenticity-that. (It’s the new “express yourself.”) Heck, mea culpa for blogging about Seattle’s authenticity a couple of days ago. So it was with equal parts amusement and intrigue that I picked up Time magazine’s March 24th issue, with the cover story, 10 Ideas That Are […]

Still haven’t recovered from Spring Forward? Want a fresh face to look at in the morning? Seeking a new partner to help you hop to it before Easter arrives?
Chiasso has practically more choices than eggs on the White House lawn.
      
For starters, there are two versions of the blocks clock. One’s in color and the other’s […]

   
 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 […]

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 […]

 
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 […]

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 […]