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Jay Pridmore has written a book about architect Ike Colburn, whose house on Lake Road in Lake Forest turned heads.
TV host backs new women’s clothing store An upscale women’s clothing store, COURAGE b, is slated to open at 267 E. Westminster Avenue in Lake Forest in late April. The boutique is backed by TV personality, entrepreneur and Lake Forest resident Marcus Lemonis. It is the third business he is opening on the North Shore this year. COURAGE b will feature high-end tops, sweaters, dresses, skirts, pants, accessories and handbags. Courage b’s Lake Forest store will join its six other locations in New York City, Aspen, Palm Beach, Bethesda, Md., and Greenwich, Conn. It is a family-run business that was founded in 2009 by siblings Stephanie Menkin and Nicolas Goureau and caters to women of all ages with American and Continues on page 12
Architect’s unique North Shore house to be tackled in book BY BILL MCLEAN
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t was a quirky eyesore to some. It was a magnificent structure to others. It was the Colburn House on Lake Road in Lake Forest, also known as the “Swiss cheese house.”
Its glaring centerpiece was “a forest of brick buttresses (towers) on all four sides of a second-floor living room,” Jay Pridmore writes in the January/ February issue of Chicago Architect.
“It did look like it was ready to take off into the stratosphere,” says the 62-year-old Pridmore, who grew up in Lake Forest and returned to his hometown more than 10 years ago. Architect and New England
native I.W. (Ike) Colburn designed the house. It was built in 1965. He and his family lived in it for nearly a decade. Its slender, distinctive towers — full of holes — were torn down in 1973, victims of unforgiving winters,
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Pridmore surmises, along with speculation that Colburn did not want to leave the most startling gesture of the house to someone else before he and his family moved to Manchester, Mass. “There were indications that the masonry was failing,” Pridmore notes. “Chicago weather, with its freeze-thaw-freezethaw nature, did some damage.” The rest of the Colburn House — situated across from Forest Park — was razed in 2005. “It was a masterpiece,” Pridmore says. “Ike was very influential in his day, a pretty interesting guy, a real independent architect. He was a modernist who also saw the hallmarks of traditionalism. He built splendid luxury houses … houses that are still here in Lake Forest [including the McLennan and Runnells houses on Lake Road]. His houses made you feel you were looking at more than the strict, rational elements of a building. He liked using the kind of historical gestures that invoke memories of the past — when one fell in love in Paris, for example.” Pridmore, author of several books about architecture, felt Colburn — who died in New England in 1992, at the age of 67 — deserved to be the subject of a book. So he wrote one. Its title is “I.W. Colburn: Emotion in Architecture” (Lake Forest Continues on page 12
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