Even today you’d be hard-pressed to find a starchitect-branded glass structure in Florence, one of the few cities in the world with a skyline still relatively untouched by modernization (although rumor has it that Sir Norman Foster has...
Call it the “Little Black Dress” of the interior design world: Tom Bucina believes concrete to be the perfect blank canvas. In 2009, Bucina founded Chicago Concrete Studio after honing his craft at commercial...
A man living solo has always been an intriguing subject for satire: the empty pizza boxes strewn about, the fridge bare but for the random condiment bottles and beer cans, the almost-endearing lack of interest in the environment department (flat-screen,...
“I am so lucky this didn’t come out looking like a Picasso painting,” says Dara Levy with a laugh. The self-taught design enthusiast juggled the roles of architect, interior designer and project manager during the construction and...
“It was a family affair,” says Aimee Wertepny, founder of Project Interiors, of the recent collaboration between her firm, interior designer Lauren Warnock, LG Development Group and—of course—the client. The team worked...
Right angles rule in Chicago designer Lukas Machnik’s latest project, the renovation of a three-story, single-family Bucktown home that was built in 2002. Lanky floor lamps jut from behind squared-off couches; flames flicker inside a long, low,...
With Chicago’s most famous designer planted in New York City to film The Nate Berkus Show, his talented right-hand ladies Sasha Adler and Lauren Gold are holding down the fort back in Chicago with big style—and an even bigger sense of humor. We...
“Carte blanche” and “budget-conscious” are rarely the usual terms of engagement from client to designer. “They’re not contradictory, but they do make strange bedfellows,” observes Chicago interior designer Anthony Michael...
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