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Home » midcentury modern

Tag: midcentury modern

Posted inArts & Culture

The minimalist jewelry designer: Allison Mooney of Allison Mooney Design

by Isa Giallorenzo July 25, 2018August 18, 2021

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

Posted inCity Life

For a midcentury-modern furniture collector, Homewood is where the heart is

by Laura Pearson October 12, 2016August 18, 2021

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

Posted inBest of Chicago

Chicago’s North Shore fuels architecture fantasies

by Laura Pearson June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

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

Posted inCity Life

Midcentury modern vintage store An Orange Moon glows in Humboldt Park’s ‘WOW’ district

by Andrea Bauer April 2, 2015August 18, 2021

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

Posted inBlogs

Radio Advertising Inc., producing those ‘brought to you by’ ads since the 1960s

by Qudsiya Siddiqui January 30, 2015August 18, 2021

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

Looking south, Von Hartz's living room is illuminated by the large skylight.
Posted inCity Life

A mushroom-shaped party pad by the designer of Playboy’s headquarters

by Laura Pearson August 10, 2014August 18, 2021

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

Posted inCity Life

A blaze of glory for Taryn and Sanford Parker’s home

by Andrea Bauer February 15, 2014August 18, 2021

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 began building their tiki mug collection on their honeymoon four years ago.
Posted inCity Life

Mai tais and monsters collide in Uptown

by Andrea Bauer September 27, 2013August 19, 2021

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

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