Some of our favorite local designers have popped up in the August issue of Chicago Magazine. In the last few years, collaborations between design students, professors, and international manufacturer...
We heard from Mara Snipes today. She is a local textile designer and screenprinter who works from her home based studio in Lincoln Square and does printing at Lillstreet Studios. We really like the lo...
Chicago firm Wilkinson Blender has been featured on AT before. (Remember the ultra-cool, LEED-certified live/work space of Smog Veil Records? They did that.) They're great at making use of spaces th...
Last night at our Design Meetup at the Tree Studios Design Within Reach, the finalists of the first "Get Lit" lighting competition were put on display. There were 60 entries which resulted in 17 remar...
New Buffalo, Michigan has been coming up in conversation a lot lately. Three years ago, I took a drive with my dad to see if his grandparents' house was still there (a place he spent many childhood su...
Local Chicago designers, Alicia and Robert of Unison, sent us a little preview of the pieces they'll be launching at ICFF, which will be available in early July... ...
These are some of the coolest chairs we've seen in a while: green, ultra-versatile, and made right here in Chicago. Local designers Roscoe Jackson (aka Caleb Dawson, Shawn Gnann, and Thomas Fowler) ...
While scouting for new finds this past weekend, we ended up at Haus and discovered these great pieces of furniture by local designer Bladon Conner. ...
Flipping through the Spring issue of CS Interiors, we noticed that one of the recipients of the 2008 AIA Honor Award for Interior Architecture is based here in Illinois. Thomas Roszak designed his o...
A_StoolChicago furniture designer Jonathan Nesci debuted last year at ICFF. His line features five sleek sculptural pieces made from his current material of choice - powder coated aluminum. Jump below...
These furnishings designed by McKinley Wells are clean-lined stainless steel pieces that work with modern interiors. The local designer also makes railings, fixtures, staircases, and fireplace surro...
Last month, Heather posted on I.D. Chicago's new interior design services. While clicking around the web, we recently stumbled across a portfolio of rooms by I.D.'s Jonathan Kramer. Simple, livable,...
Maxine Snider is a Chicago designer whose work straddles the traditional/modern categories. Her collection includes fifty pieces and many of them (like this Bauhaus Console) could work in a bedroom,...
Workroom is the Chicago atelier of designers Joel Klaff and John Diekmann. A major focus of their design studio is the creative use fabric in the creation of custom, couture window treatments. Good ne...
Launching today! A brand new line of fabric designs called Modern Flora. Coming in at the tail end of our month of all things DIY, we had to fit in these fabrics covered with patterns of various brigh...
Thinking about living in the Chicago Spire? The homes went on sale last week - starting at $750k for the 534 sq. foot studios......
Michael W. Dreeben is a sculptor who makes furniture. His MFA is from the University of Chicago, which he followed up with a stay in India to study traditional craft and woodworking. His current work ...
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