Strange Closets

When it’s not snowing, raining, chilly or overcast, spring in the midwest can be lovely. Because the season can be so unpredictable, plan a trip to the North Shore where you can grab a bite to eat, enjoy a day of shopping and if the weather cooperates, even take a walk by the lake. If [...]

Seagrass Home is the kind of shop I was expecting to find when I vacationed in Provincetown a few years ago, but unfortunately tourism had driven up rents to such a point that most of the good shops had long ago succumbed to those selling trinkets and t-shirts (survival of the fittest).  Which was disappointing, [...]

Ro McLaughlin and her sister Barb Lund’s Winnetka shop the Maclund Gallery specializes in 19th century British antiques and art and is quite befitting of its charming but less than provocative Winnetka downtown location.  But like a rebellious teenage girl winking at the hunky bad boy behind her strict father’s back, the Maclund Gallery offers [...]

I’m still processing the splendor that was the Winnetka Modernism show. After a hectic couple of weeks, I spent Sunday evening going through some papers and was happy to be reminded about Rita Bucheit’s interesting color algraphs (which are printed from a prepared aluminum plate rather than a lithographic stone [distinctions distinctions]). Using vintage wallpaper [...]