In an Instagram world, does pretty food make us think it tastes better?
The kid wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — with not too much peanut butter but a lot of jam. "And Mom," he said as he left the kitchen,...
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Outside in: Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence on interior design
For the editor of a lifestyle magazine, Elizabeth Gordon of House Beautiful was a little wound up. The target of her wrath? "A self-chosen elite that is trying to tell...
Front row seats at Kris Bryant’s Vegas wedding
When Cubs star Kris Bryant tied the knot in Las Vegas with his high school sweetheart, Jessica Delp, on Jan. 7, the happy couple and Bryant's teammates announced the news...
This svelte coffee table comes with a secret
The cute box you bought to hold the TV remote? It doesn't really fit the four remotes now required to manipulate your tangle of streaming services and black boxes. Those...
Kitchen overflowing? Try modern take on Julia Child-style pegboard
Great storage solutions are born in one of two ways: in a frantic effort to make sense of an ever-expanding universe of things, or as a surrender to the knowledge...
Nate Berkus’ new show hits close to home
Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent are no strangers to decorating houses, appearing on television shows, or doing things as a couple. But can they do all three at once? We'll...
Maria Pinto’s top picks from Chicago couture auction
Leslie Hindman's spring Luxury Accessories and Couture auction is underway — which means your favorite fashionista might be a little distracted (checking her online bids ... again) or MIA today...
Uniting politically divided quilters, stitch by stitch
Mary Fons sat up in bed, mind racing. She was in her late 20s, barely married, but headed toward divorce. She was sick — a horrific disease, ulcerative colitis, had...
Gallery director Vincent Uribe on his artful approach to life
Vincent Uribe believes in art, wherever he finds it. He's the founding director of LVL3 art gallery and online magazine in Wicker Park; works with adult artists with disabilities at...
Director of SAIC’s Fashion Resource Center Gillion Carrara on her all-black look
The soloist Singularity is important to Gillion Carrara. "Artists," says the professor and director of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Fashion Resource Center, "want to be different."...