If you’ve eaten at a restaurant designed by Chicago-based Siren Betty Design, you remember it. The firm’s principal designer and founder, Nicole Alexander, has made full-throttle, go-big-or-go-home impact a hallmark of her hospitality projects. “I tend toward a sort of lived-in maximalism — lots of layers, textures and colors, a sprinkling of vintage, and one-of-a-kind […]
If this quarantine is inspiring you to nest and, let’s be honest, redecorate, you aren’t alone. Local designers are rising to meet the challenge by offering services virtually using technology like Facetime, Google Hangouts and Zoom. Some are even brainstorming new packages to meet clients’ changing needs. Many of the designers we have spoken to […]
Caption: A Lake Zurich solar home completed in 2018. The home was designed to capture key views out to the lake and features a long list of sustainable features including a significant solar panel array. (Photos courtesy of Kipnis Architecture + Planning.) Incorporating sustainability into the home has never been more critical, not only […]
If interior design were as easy as selecting furniture from a catalog, most of us could manage well enough on our own. Putting it together is the tough part, and that’s why a young couple with two children in grade school asked interior designer Claire Staszak, of Centered by Design, to decorate their Lincoln Square […]
If interior design were as easy as selecting furniture from a catalog, most of us could manage well enough on our own. Putting it together is the tough part, and that’s why a young couple with two children in grade school asked interior designer Claire Staszak, of Centered by Design, to decorate their Lincoln Square […]
Solid and voluptuous, these objects are local and global, limited-edition and mass-produced treasures. BAKKER’S POT Dutch designer Aldo Bakker’s Pot is a limited-edition collectible. Made of bone china, the teapot is manufactured by Frans Ottink. Available online for $2,200. MARGAUX SWING ARM SCONCE By Charles de Lisle for Phoenix Day, this is made from solid brass. […]
Solid and voluptuous, these objects are local and global, limited-edition and mass-produced treasures. BAKKER’S POT Dutch designer Aldo Bakker’s Pot is a limited-edition collectible. Made of bone china, the teapot is manufactured by Frans Ottink. Available online for $2,200. MARGAUX SWING ARM SCONCE By Charles de Lisle for Phoenix Day, this is made from solid brass. […]
With more than 30 years experience in architecture, interiors, and landscape design, the Morgante-Wilson team delivers a comprehensive and consistent project from start to finish; creating personalized, memorable spaces. We asked Elissa Morgante, president of Morgante-Wilson Architects, to tell us more about the mission and passions that drive their dedicated team: Make It Better: Briefly describe your […]
It only takes a few minutes for everything to change. That’s what a Winnetka family learned when their vintage Tudor Victorian home of only several weeks was consumed by a raging fire on an otherwise ordinary Saturday morning. Thick black smoke filled the interior, and loud popping sounds came from inside the walls. When the […]
Bold coffered ceilings and echoes of traditional boiserie lift a classic but timeworn Russian Hill pied-à-terre. When a couple from a leafy Chicago suburb who needed to be closer to their daughter and grandchildren in San Francisco found a worn fourth-floor flat in a 1924 Russian Hill condominium building, they took it. “It had bay […]
