Category Archives: Art For the past three years, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has opened more than a hundred of the city’s most beautiful spaces to the public for the 48-hour Open House Chicago festival. It’s an invitation to discover something new about a city you may think you know all about, to gape at stunning architecture, or just […]  Last fall, when the leaves were still on fire, my wonderful, stylish friends Claire and Richard asked me to snap a portrait for their Christmas card. Winnemac Park couldn’t have been a more gorgeous setting, and we capped off the day with some crazy-amazing antiques shopping at Brimfield, where plaid is the new black. You […]  Pictured below: Apple picking at Crane Orchards. The Saugatuck waterfront on an Indian summer afternoon. Not pictured: Blazing fall colors bordering the highway as we drove to Fennville. The heartbreaking decision not to stop at Pleasant House in Three Oaks along the way. Our first stop, lunch at Crane’s Pie Pantry—the orchard’s kitschy companion pie […]  On a rainy evening last May, my friend Carolyn and I stood at a candlelit highboy in Maude’s Liquor Bar in the West Loop, slurping gin and vodka smashes and discussing our shared need for some sort of summer escape. I mentioned that I’d booked a trip to Spain; she revealed that she’d been considering […]  It is my firm belief that everyone should have the opportunity to take at least one solo adventure during their travels, and I was lucky enough to find myself alone in the Sagrada Família, in all its unfinished glory, for mine. The cavernous basilica is architecturally similar to a stained-glass and granite forest, with its […] |
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