The new interpretations of color and pattern reflect a different set of sensibilities, different uses and different environments from the originals. We crave that reference point to the past but move inexorably into the future. That’s the fascinating thing about fashion — it’s endless capacity to mirror our own desires back at us. So the [ read more… ]
Right now, this year’s local graduates are on top of the world and the view is expansive. In many ways, they started out there. Let’s add one more wish for their furture success and happiness: that, like the many good people and companies out there, their success will end up benefiting the larger world.
If it’s been a couple of years since you’ve shopped for furniture, you may drive to the old familiar spots you remember and find yourself in an empty parking lot, staring at a locked door or “liquidation sale” sign in the window. Adjusting to a changing global economy is taking its toll in many sectors, [ read more… ]
More furniture industry angst… It would be easy to bemoan rising costs in transportation, raw materials or production; to point the finger at off-shore labor, the current housing crunch or the internet. But the genie of globalization will not go back in its bottle, and though change can be painful it has brought about undeniable [ read more… ]
I like to think of style as eternal spring — the process of new growth, of starting fresh. There’s always something just under the surface waiting to push its way toward the sun.
Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Nice to see it getting its due.
As I have mentioned before, I am a display artist at Toms-Price. The out-of-sight areas of our furniture store are called “the dock” and the parallels to a home are striking. Just as I suspect that I spend, in sum, far more time in my laundry room than I do in front of my fireplace [ read more… ]
In January I’m usually pretty prompt in packing up holiday decorations and getting them out of the way until next year. And after I get over the shock of seeing the house so denuded, I wonder where all the space came from. I don’t remember buying a bigger house, but I swear there’s more square [ read more… ]
Every year at this time our stores go through a transformation. Furniture arrives sporting new trendy fabrics and fresh colors, and little by little, week by week, the store begins a metamorphosis before our very eyes. I like to think of it in terms of that old Hans Christian Anderson tale of the ugly duckling [ read more… ]
