Sitting Pretty

Multisensory splendor in a backyard hideaway in Uptown

Empty nesters turn their apartment into a sleek space for two - and a fine setting for entertaining their brood

Designer Michael Abrams creates a sophisticated abode in a converted Lake View church

This past spring, 42 Chicago-area interior designers and 12 landscape pros took on the formidable task of adorning the 2007 Lake Forest Showhouse

Inside the home of two modernists with a taste of timelessness

Help your friends find your home easily and give your street the gift of public art with this head-turning example of form meeting function

Channel your inner blueblood and have your monogram knit into a cashmere pillow in the colors of your choice.

There’s nothing more luxurious than setting your table with Nymphenburg

Sculpture masquerades as a (three-leaf) table

With vintage colored glass becoming increasingly collectible, new art glass is having its moment, too.

Towel bars are so pedestrian

The other ritzy, trade-only plumbing showroom to open in River North lately is Toto.

Wondering whatever happened to Tragara, that funky little vintage shop on Lincoln Avenue? It has been reincarnated in River North as K. Palmer, and it’s no longer so little.

Hydrology was created specifically to give designers and contractors an easy, well-edited place to source high-end plumbing and kitchen products outside of the Mart.

Five local home blogs that keep us coming back for more

The business model behind Haelo Design, a collaboration between furniture and object designer Helen Maria Nugent and her husband, architect Ron Kirkpatrick, is quite simple: she dreams; he builds.

For Kevin Schwartzberg, 11 years in the contemporary furniture business led to many trips to Europe

With everything wooden and stumplike all the rage these days, it’s not surprising that Italy-based sculptor Ernst Gamperl’s handcrafted Italian oak vases and bowls are flying off the shelves at Morlen Sinoway’s Fulton Market gallery

After 15 years of custom-designing furniture for his clients, Chicago interior designer Michael Richman had created a bona fide furniture line, if only in his portfolio.

Just in time for baby, a new kitchen and bathroom are born in Roscoe Village

Decorating with art for the neophyte

A once-humble home feature becomes—voilà!—the new must-have amenity

Open shelves are so very cool, but what to put on them? A designer offers two solutions ...

A backyard prone to flooding becomes an opportunity to reshape outdoor space with architectural elements

High-society bandleader Stanley Paul throws an Old Hollywood–style party