midcentury modern Archives

The minimalist jewelry designer: Allison Mooney of Allison Mooney Design

Her pieces have been picked up by Nordstrom, but she remains a DIY type.

Kelly Caldwell makes a passionate case for living in Chicago’s south suburbs.

The curving streets of the affluent north suburbs are lined with midcentury-modern marvels and the locations of John Hughes movies.

Humboldt Park furniture shop owners Ty and Lynne McDaniel are fostering a business community west of Western Avenue.

In the North Park neighborhood, a midcentury building is occupied by a business straight out of the 60s.

North Center’s “mushroom house,” a 60s party pad by the designer of Playboy‘s headquarters

After their newly acquired Logan Square residence went up in flames, the couple got creative with an “unintentional gut rehab.”

Pete Klockau and Katie Monachos’s house is home to six-foot totems and 200 tiki mugs.