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This Week . . . Praha
To me, the best stores aren’t fancy necessarily (but they can be) and they’re not part of a big chain. My favorite stores are owned by real people who show up every day and put their heart and soul...
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This Week: Ravenswood Antique Mall
If you want to get a sense of where trends are going, you have to know where they’ve been, because, as they say, history repeats itself. Ravenswood Antique Mall is like a library if the card catalog...
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This Week: Patina
Who wants a hand? Patina, an industrial-chic boutique, is one of those places that seems to hover just under the radar. Located in a slightly subterranean storefront on a slightly residential,...
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This Week: FourSided
FourSided is the most recent addition to the small and independently owned framing company that Todd Mack began more than eight years ago when he opened a shop on Broadway in Lakeview. A third store,...
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This Week: Mod Life
Fans of retro mid-century furniture will want to check out Mod Life, a sleek Lincoln Square showroom, which offers a terrific selection of mid-century furniture and accessories, much of which has been...
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This Week: Smythson Yeats Antiques
“Tramp art,” the shop proprietor shouted, startling me as I examined a picture frame made out of a material I couldn’t quite identify. My brow furrowed, and his eyes widened – you could hear a pin...
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This Week: Smythson Yeats and the Case of the European Bounty
Smythson Yeats owner Dick Rosen just received the container of goodies he bought during his recent European shopping trip (so help me God, if he complains about his job, I’m puttin’ my dukes up)....
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What’s new at Praha?
Praha owners Todd and David were busy getting the shop together when I stopped by the Lincoln Square store late in the afternoon earlier this week. Business has been good, and torrents of shoppers...
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The Chesterfield sofa at Smythson Yeats
After finally putting my newly stripped and shined tanker desk back together and stumbling upon the perfect little sofa at Broadway Antique Market, my den is nearly complete. Successfully refinishing...
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