Architect Scott Fortman has designed buildings in a variety of styles, from traditional to Richard Meier-inspired modernism, but it was Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style dwellings that first sparked his imagination. When Fortman was courting his wife, he often took her on tours of Wright-designed homes. They married in Wright’s former home and studio in […]
COVID-19 didn’t yet exist when Jason and Alexis Beckwith decided to buy a 10-acre partially forested property just an hour’s drive from Chicago in Chesterton, Indiana, a rural community known for its art galleries, antique shops and annual festivals. But especially after sheltering-in-place for the past few months, the former Chicagoans are grateful they followed […]
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 […]
