I won't lie to you: I'm nearly as pleased with this post's title as I am with the items pictured below. This weekend I picked up three emery pillar candleholders from Crate & Barrel and then rounded out the half-dozen with three blogger-approved candleholders from CB2. (Manhattan Nest is surely responsible for moving some units for [...]
(Preach! will be an occasional Sunday feature with personal endorsements of products, stores and services. I plan to do one Chicago recommendation and one anywhere-in-the-world recommendation.) Pinzon Flannel Sheets Persuaded by their near-flawless rating, I ordered these sheets from Amazon at the beginning of winter. They're perfect. Our bedroom is the coldest room in the apartment [...]
My favorite thing on UChicago's campus is this workshop in the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
Happy new year to you all and welcome to new readers! Now that my subscriber count has surpassed 1,500 (thanks, everyone!) and we've rolled into 2013, I wanted to pause to do a DIY project round-up. Not necessarily comprehensive, just a visual introduction to what goes on around here. 1: Operation Obscurement: Window Film 2: [...]
A few months ago Design*Sponge posted a round-up of art scarves, including this awesome furoshiki from The Link Collective: Folded Paper Furoshiki designed by Lucinda Newton Dunn (Photo copyright: Link) Link says: "Furoshiki (風呂敷, fu-rosh-ki) is a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth. Each of our products has been hand printed in Japan, using traditional [...]
Project Palermo 