In the Sort-of Ethnic Home: We've tried to get in her ourselves, but it looks like the NYTimes have scooped us. Calypso Home, over on Lafayette is a stunning and colorful shop for world style at reasonable prices.
Got 2 Extra Hours for Your E-Mail?: Our biggest new clutter problem, email, is sorted out by Lizette Alvarez, but we wish she would have told us what to do about it.
"Just a nice, clean modern phone. " They still make phones with cords? HA HA...
Chiasso is only ok, They used to have a retail location in Chicago at Watertower Place, and I still get their catalog in the mail. But, I find that they are often more expensive than I can buy locally (even before you factor in shipping), and they tend to mix a few nice design things with a lot of poor quality knock offs or cheap imports. This makes it hard for the regular person to discern what is good and what is crap.
...and they provide a (catalog and web) design alternative to those places not quite so blessed as is Chicago with retail alternatives...
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"Just a nice, clean modern phone. " They still make phones with cords? HA HA...
Chiasso is only ok, They used to have a retail location in Chicago at Watertower Place, and I still get their catalog in the mail. But, I find that they are often more expensive than I can buy locally (even before you factor in shipping), and they tend to mix a few nice design things with a lot of poor quality knock offs or cheap imports.
This makes it hard for the regular person to discern what is good and what is crap.
...and they provide a (catalog and web) design alternative to those places not quite so blessed as is Chicago with retail alternatives...