Browsers in the renovated 6th-floor Home Store at Marshall Field & Co. will find that they can gaze toward the famous Picasso sculpture while shopping. How fitting, since some of the merchandise approaches the cost of a work by the Spanish artist.
Those customers who have plenty to blow on the boudoir might peruse the new Couture Linen Shop with $3,000 silk sheets from Anichini and Lysdarb of Belgium.
The Couture Linen Shop is among an audacious array of boutiques and galleries throughout the floor.
Field`s is one of the last big-city department stores in the country to devote so much space to home furnishings and accessories. The elegant area is a fitting climax to Field`s five-year, $115 million downtown store renovation. Among the special features: The Sheridan Shop of fine Australian linens;
a Quilt Shop featuring Amish and other American-made coverings; Field`s first Laura Ashley shop and a Ralph Lauren area three times larger than before.
There`s no shortage of crystal, with galleries for Orrefors, Hoya, Baccarat, Waterford and Lalique. That choice is surpassed in china, where more than 750 patterns of dinnerware are featured.
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Particularly fetching is the 50-year-old Astbury fine bone china by Wedgwood. Featuring an ivory background with black overlay, embellished with pure gold, the china is not for everyone. Price for a five-piece setting:
$4,150.