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9:30–10:30AM 1871—Lessons Learned Building the Largest Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the U.S.
Howard Tullman, CEO, 1871 (Chicago); Barbara Pollack, owner, Barbara S. Pollack & Associates (Chicago) 9:30–10:30AM Health Care (Welcomes/Seeks/Takes On) Workplace
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Sparked by sportswear and racetracks, Active, the latest nylon carpet collection by Shaw Contract Group, is meant to help energize workers. The customizable lexicon of kinetic, boldly graphic patterns “activate a space” with their optimistic flair. Boosting the invigoration factor are the three fluorescent colors specially developed for the collection. Available as carpet tile or broadloom. space 10-167
Crystal Dippre, IFMA, lead workplace strategist; Samantha Gotta, NCIDQ, LEED AP BD+C, IIDA, interior designer; both Stantec (Chicago) 9:30–10:30AM Breaking Boundaries: Reimagining a Transit Workplace
Liza Lewellen, NCIDQ, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C, interior designer; Theresa Maurer, NCIDQ, IIDA, interior designer; both Pivot Architecture (Eugene, OR) 9:30–10:30AM Innovate in Place: How to Use Research to Stimulate Creativity in Your Office and Distinguish Your Firm in the Marketplace
Michael Hickok, FAIA, senior principal; Yolanda Cole, FAIA, senior principal; both Hickok Cole Architects (Washington) 9:30–10:30AM Designing a Workplace For Nonprofits
Spin a color wheel fast and it appears gray. That’s the notion behind Infinite Neutral, a polyester textile by Wolf-Gordon in four cool-to-warm gray-beige colorways that are actually composed of threads in 30 hues. Ever since art school, when designer Morgan Bajardi wove primary colors together and was surprised to discover a rich gray, she’s wanted to replicate the concept in a textile. The result? Multi-dimensional neutrals with eons of depth. space 10-161
Jim Kales, CEO, Aspire (Hillside, IL); Marc Adelman, AIA, CFM, CCS, principal, Perkins Eastman (Chicago); Jennifer Sobecki, CEO, Designs for Dignity (Chicago)
big leaps Australian design studio Dowel Jones jumps into the North American market with the Hurdle series of chairs and stools. The simple tubular-steel frame is reminiscent of the track and field hurdle, while the white-oak seat is equally elemental. “This young firm has a talent for stripping everyday products down to basics,” Grand Rapid Chair Co. president Geoff Miller says of how the work of founders Dale Hardiman and Adam Lynch caught his eye. space 394
11:00AM–12:00PM Use Every Inch in Educational Environments!
Daniela Voith, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, principal, Voith & Mactavish Architects (Philadelphia) 1:00–2:00PM Designing for Innovation: The Role of Serendipity In the Workplace
Lise Newman, AIA, director, workplace practice, SmithGroup JJR (Detroit); Arnold Levin, principal, workplace, SmithGroup JJR (Chicago) 1:00–2:00PM Big Data, Big Insights
David Euscher, ASID, IIDA, Associate AIA, LEED AP, interior designer (Houston) 1:00–2:00PM The Five Rules for Designing Transformative Learning Environments
Vuk Vujovic, Associate AIA, LEED AP BD+C, vice president, director of sustainability and energy; Sylvia Kowalk, LEED ID+C, director of interior design; both Legat Architects (Chicago) Seminars are $70 and require registration; check the NeoCon Show Directory for locations.
strong, silent type Its name may be Muffle, but the Okamura modular system for carving out quiet zones in open offices could cause a riot of applause. To oblige fans, the Japanese manufacturer has expanded and refined the line’s adaptable panels, sofas, and tables with new colors and finishes, integrated power outlets, a cable management system, plus additional work surfaces and storage. The possibilities are practically endless. space 11-124 What design pieces should you definitely see? Those at the Interior Design SELECT partner showrooms, of course! For the list of locations, see page 98. #IDneocon
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Niels Bendtsen, of Bendtsen Design Associates, has teamed up with Allsteel for a much-needed Retreat... OK, they’re not really going anywhere, but the so-named collection of upholstered lounge seating for collaborative work spaces will take offices to new heights of style and serenity. The wings on the highback Wingback Lounge enable a modicum of privacy for the user, while the arms on the Lowback Lounge comfortably support various work postures. space 1120
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PEARSONLLOYD’S TOM LLOYD AND LUKE PEARSON.
PATRICIA URQUIOLA.
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ARCHITECTURE PLUS INFORMATION’S DAG FOLGER AND BRAD ZIZMOR.
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DARRAN FURNITURE: BLOOM, SPACE 7-5046
OFS BRANDS: COACT, SPACE 1132 ARCHITEX: AUTHENTEC, SPACE 11-117
DESIGNTEX: BUTE, SPACE 1032A ANDREU WORLD: RAGLAN, SPACE 10-132
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designer Sarah Kuchar Studio. highlights A Scandinavian influence subtly pervades the maker’s “resi-mercial” showroom design, with streamlined earth-tone wainscoting backdropping introductions like the Lore sofa.
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designer Standard Issue Design. highlights Tapping into the senses are a series of pods, one enclosed in Chroma’s sunset-inspired hi-res gradient, another clad in the calming stillness of Seeyond.
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designers Haworth design studio and Patricia Urquiola. highlights Vignettes transition from grown-up to start-up with a “graduate office” library concept for a small company and, for youthful tech disruptors, a Milton Glaser–like mural by Detroit street artist Paul Johnson.
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Setting the Martʼs ground-floor northeast corridor aglow, the Mobius bench is one to catch. Designed by Louis Lim of Brooklyn’s Makingworks, the seat is surfaced in 3form’s new Dark Chroma material. At rest, the piece looks almost black. Touch it, though, and LEDs looped around the particleboard interior structure spring to life, animating the unit with bright, colored light that courses and flows like liquid. Illuminating!
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“The material mesmerized me. It transmits light better than something white or translucent. Black is the absence of light: It is space and void, yet 3form’s material expresses color, light, and form. I find this paradox magical”
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café, operated on an honor system. Approached to design such a project in the Taiwan city of Taipei, Johnny Chiu responded with the idea of paper. What if we could make a space where you can be a child, happy to draw on everything? he thought. Why don’t we even create furniture out of paper? So that’s precisely what J.C. Architecture did—with about 12,000 linear feet on which customers can leave drawings or inspiring messages for whoever happens to drop in next. Using rolls of brown paper thick and strong enough to resist dripping coffee mugs not to mention shuffling feet, he constructed a surprisingly graceful collection of nooks, tunnels, canopies, beds, and even a paper pup tent for romantic tête-à-têtes. The rolls can unfurl to reveal clean, new writing surfaces or wind back up to transport to different locations. (The lease for the current 4,300-square-foot space, in former military barracks, is temporary.) According to Chiu, customers haven’t been shy about adding to the mélange: “After two weeks, it was like wow.” Words and pictures were everywhere. —Winifred Bird NORA WANG; MARIA ISABEL LIMA: PROJECT TEAM.
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High on a hillside, overlooking the infamously traffic-clogged 405 freeway through Los Angeles, Milken Community Schools occupies an 11-acre campus. The upper school consists of four unusual buildings, each with levels that step outward as they descend the slope. Connection between the buildings is lateral, across outdoor terraces. Lehrer Architects LA was commissioned to transform two of these structures. The first houses the Guerin Institute for Advanced Sciences, where the curriculum includes robotics and a fabrication lab affiliated with MIT. The second is home to the Architecture + Design Institute, exposing students to the craft as it is practiced in the commercial, residential, and institutional realms. Every project “needs a big idea,” Michael B. Lehrer notes, and there’s no doubt about this one. “It’s all about seamless indoor-outdoor living, learning, and being.” To eliminate the buildings’ dark, inward-facing classrooms, replacing them with light-filled environments befitting the Southern California locale, and to take advantage of the previously underused terraces, Lehrer stripped the buildings down to their structural steel. Rebuilt, they share the same design vocabulary. Standouts include skylights and, as he puts it, “animated flooring of epoxy and paint.” The latter literally bridges indoors and out when garage-style doors fold up to enable classrooms to spill onto the terraces. —Edie Cohen
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If you truly must work in Los Angeles, the experience is supposed to feel like you really aren’t. And as coworking spaces encroach on the turf of the traditional office, the need to distance them from a coffee-bar atmosphere has grown. Those two conditions—plus a design concept that the Rockwell Group had established at NeueHouse’s first location, in New York—set the stage for Interior Design Hall of Fame member David Rockwell’s gutsy mix of mid-century and contemporary elements. The L.A. outpost occupies William Lescaze’s 1938 CBS Radio studio, where the pilot of I Love Lucy was filmed. Today, the interior could be mistaken for a luxe hotel lobby. Hair-on-hide rugs, seating in leather and polished chrome, and polished steel chandeliers with glass globes fill the 70,000 square feet—not a water cooler in sight. Wall surfaces alternate between board-formed concrete and raw oak planks. As at most coworking concerns, there are conference rooms. Here, however, the ante is upped with a screening room that evokes bygone Tinseltown glamour. “We kept the DNA of the building but re-envisioned it as a new kind of creative hub,” Rockwell says. Think of it as a cultural and social center that doubles as a place to get stuff done. Membership in the working class has never seemed so. . .Hollywood. —Jeff Jablansky GREG KEFFER; MICHAEL SIPORIN; SARAH ABDALLAH; NATE BETTINI; EVELYN CHOI; LIZETTE HENSONVILORIA; LAURA KERN: PROJECT TEAM.
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haworth SPACE 312 Philippe Starck mixed the elegance of a dining chair and
the comfort of a task chair to create a pair of swiveling barstools perfect for the office cafĂŠ. The nylon shells of ovular Caprice and the square-cornered Passion rest on steel bases that can be painted (black, white, or taupe) or finished in polished aluminum or shiny or matte black or white. Caprice stands 101 inches tall, Passion 109; each have a chrome-finished footrest. Coordinating tables with matching bases come topped in marble, oak, or laminate.
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This sofa serves as a grand Finale to the legendary career of Charles Pollock. Renowned for his eponymous chair with George Nelson and his designs for Knoll, the icon died unexpectedly in 2013 while working on the collection this piece completes. Pollock’s signature loop stitch softens the rigorous form, as does the soft curve of the sofa’s arms and back. The stainless-steel frame is offered with a polished or brushed finish or in dramatic matte black, while upholstery options include any Bernhardt Textile or leather. Measuring 80 inches wide, 28 ¼ deep, and 27 ½ tall with a 16 ½-inch seat height, the sofa perfectly complements the collection’s club and armless chairs, lounge, and cocktail and side tables, each poised on a four-legged base.
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The warm glow of timber flooring meets the durability of luxury vinyl tile in More Than Wood. Tandus Centiva applies its state-
of-the-art digital printers to a series of faux bois patterns, allowing for previously impossible levels of detail and variation—not to mention far longer pattern repeats. Like all of the brand’s LVT products, it’s Floorscore–certified and a fine choice for retail, hospitality, and health-care applications.
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Designed by Jessica Engelhardt, Fiore will fire up any office or educa-
tional setting. Talk about options: The seat shell is offered in eight hues of polyester or veneered (oak, walnut, or beech), with optional upholstery and seat pad. The four-post frame, finished in chrome or wood, is a classic choice—and stackable, to boot. Or opt for a four- or five-star swivel base with casters. Just as hot: There’s also a barstool version and an armchair iteration with polished aluminum arms and softskin pads.
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A collaboration between Populous principals Felicia Balestrere and Adam Stover, the Lutta collection includes dining, barheight, side, and cocktail tables, all with steel bases custom powder-coated for use in interior or exterior applications. Top options include varieties of marble, wood, stone, steel, or glass marker surfaces; optional power and data cords are discreetly routed to one leg so they’re within reach yet out of sight. Bonus: The table’s frame is designed to allow stools and chairs to be stashed underneath when not in use.
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A bold melding of form and function, Cove invites work and repose in equal measure. Accompanied by an ottoman, the oversize chair is generous enough to accommodate a variety of seating positions (and, of course, your laptop). The base—in steel, aluminum, or wood—can swivel in fixed, free, or return-to-center directions. And the soy-based rigid shell is padded with foam and can be upholstered in any of the firm’s in-graded fabrics, or custom.
Mark Müller’s sleek Nesting
tables do just that: Set them out as needed and then stack them out of sight until duty calls again. Beech legs with optional grooved cable channels are offered in three solid hues and 14 stains, while the steel frame comes finished in gray or white. Sizes include heights perfect for use as cocktail tables, desks, counters, and bars; highpressure laminate tops ensure cleanup’s a snap. MARK MÜLLER
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The brand’s Virtual Design Library ventured to New York
City’s hippest borough…and returned with Inside Brooklyn, a collection of 28 laminates. Highlights include Linear Graphite, an impressively dimensional abstracted faux stone ideal for health-care applications. Arab Arabsesque, meanwhile, pays tribute to the timber-centric aesthetic the borough made famous, but adds a global twist courtesy of a nod to Middle Eastern inlay motifs.
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The beauty of Mother Earth is embodied in Natural Creations, a luxury flooring series fortified with the brand’s proprietary Diamond 10 technology. Whether replicating the fine grains of hardwoods (including bamboo, oak, ash, maple, and cherry) or the cool textures of concrete or stone, the planks are available in sizes up to 9 by 48 inches. And because the coating, in an industry first, actually incorporates cultured diamonds, it is entirely resistant to scuffs, stains, and scratches. Dozens of patterns and tones provide ample options for health-care and educational applications, too.
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Polyurethane looks better and bolder than ever in the Modern
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Geometry collection. A dozen patterns explore grids, intersections, and dimensional angles, resulting in a range of fabrics sure to withstand the passing of time and changing fashions. Quadrant, a dimensional faux leather, looks quilted courtesy of inherently flame-resistant padding. Silicone hybrids including Axiom, Vector, and Pascal come in eye-popping colorways, while irresistible graphic plaids like Crosscut are offered in both neutral and multitoned colorways to perk up high-traffic areas.
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senator SPACE 10-146 The prototypical office desk comes, er, full circle with Orb. Interlocking crescents, either 54 or 60
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inches in diameter, form a daisy chain of shared workstations. (Or keep the “bite” version all to yourself, leaning in to the small indentation.) Rest the thermal-fused laminate top on a cast-aluminum four-star base, column, or feet. Pair with Justus Kolberg’s i-Workchair, its technical-weave fabric wrapping around a 3-D cut-perforated foam core that vents heat from the back muscles. Even better, the chair’s aluminum frame features dozens of preset and adjustable tilt, lumbar, and armrest settings.
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Tropical islands and glam minerals have inspired three fabric offerings. Bali, a blend of acrylic and polyester, both solution-dyed, renders winding pathways in bright hues against a sand-toned ground; the coordinating solid texture Fiji comes in two dozen colorways. Both work equally well indoors and out, as their stain-resistant finish and acrylic backing fend off wear and tear. Crystal references its namesake via a multicolored mid-scale expanse of rectangles, triangles, rhomboids, and parallelograms. It’s 100 percent polyester with a soft heathery fill.
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“Pleating brings movement to still objects, animating them from within”
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buzzi space SPACE 10-111 Bringing traditional hand-pleating
into the 21st century, 13&9 partners Martin Lesjak and Anastasia Su introduce BuzziPleat, a multipurpose sound-absorbing element. The company’s BuzziFelt, made from upcycled plastic bottles, is folded in various formations to maximize surface area, resulting in superior acoustical performance. Mount BuzziPleat on the wall for a noise-buffering sculpture with an architectural edge. Add an LED bulb for a pendant fixture. Choose from three patterns, a dozen colors, and three diameters: 32, 47, or 63 inches.
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brentano SPACE 1040A Iris Wang arrives at a true Pinnacle with this solution-dyed acrylic-
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polyester inspired by frescos made by the Asiri women of Saudi Arabia. Eight colorways range from monochromatic to kaleidoscopic, with a vertical repeat of over 11 inches. Her cotton-velvet Pandora, meanwhile, incorporates alternating stripes of color and both cut and uncut loops, in six color combinations with mid-scale repeats.
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The Italian manufacturer offers a pair of ruminations on hard versus soft. The shell of Saint Tropez looks like quilted
fabric, but is actually polycarbonate—in transparent and matte colors—atop a polished-brass-finish base. The Academy collection includes sharp multipurpose seats with dozens of frame and shell options, many stackable, softened by padding in eight colors of Skuba eco-leather.
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halcon SPACE 10-121 Protection is the name of the game with Halo meeting and
conference tables by Gensler. Their perimeter profile defends both edge and tabletop against scrapes and scratches from chairs, while almost invisibly incorporating power and data needs. Materials include aluminum, wood, glass, and stone. Complementing the range are sideboard and bench options, along with modules for refrigeration, waste, and storage needs, all similarly impact-resistant.
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Head to floor 11 to see the Form + Finish collection, which transforms the delicate
art of ceramic glazing into durable carpet tile. A proprietary blend of Universal fibers, with a polyester wear layer and polyester-felt cushion backing, ensures the patterns’ fine details—including the likenesses of dripping paint, the bubbly textures inherent to lava glazing, and the gauzy fields of raku—won’t fade over time. The tiles contain 55 percent recycled content, are completely recyclable, address perennial concerns about safety and acoustics, and come in multiple patterns and formats.
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keep sight lines open, with glides or casters to allow ease of movement as educational needs shift from focused to collaborative work. Users can also safely perch on the fiberglassreinforced seat back, creating tiered classrooms on the fly, and use the integrated arm as a work surface. Offered with four legs or stackable, 15 or 18 inches high, the chair has a tubularsteel frame that can be nickelplated or powder-coated. Consider the optional bookracks and an upholstered seat, available in a rainbow of cheery colors.
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A modular system of panels, sofas, and tables, Muffle now includes more accessories and sizes than ever. A single-room unit (in four heights and eight widths) features a gracefully integrated sofa and cable-management system. Curved, straight, or rounded corner panels can be specified with plain knit or interlock fabric; choose solid color or wood grain laminate details. Some 30 colors are on offer, plus custom options for the sofa and pillows.
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mayer fabrics SPACE 1173 Check out these two chic upholstery fabric introductions. The Renewal collection encompasses five patterns of solution-
dyed nylon with a soft hand and intricate weave that’s nonetheless durable enough for health-care and hospitality environments. Jeremy Noonan references ancient stitching and patching techniques to create Japanese Boro, a performance offering for health-care and other settings featuring the non-fluorinated performance option C Zero Plus. Proceeds benefit the breast cancer charity Common Thread for the Cure Foundation’s Helping Hand Grants.
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Dorothy Cosonas didn’t travel far to find inspiration for her latest collection—she just hit the books. “I have a large collection of volumes about Japanese culture, art, and photography,” she explains. And so the creative director and her team began distilling influences into a richly informed series. Azuma— Japanese for east— evokes the culture’s emphasis on balance and harmony. Kabuki is a stylized graphic in cotton, polyester, and nylon. Sashiko emulates folk embroidery in polyester. Zen Wave recalls undulating sand and kimono motifs in nylon, cotton, and polyester. And Kaya, which translates to netting, is a textured polyester with high-performance Crypton finish.
“Azuma is inspired by the balance and harmony found in Japanese design: motifs, fashion, costuming, and the arts”
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Sporting clean lines and crafted of sumptuous materials, the Highline Fifty collection assembles high modernist details that
can be mixed and matched. The 96-inch-long credenza is defined by a 2-inch-thick case with drawers, doors, or open cubbies separated by a finger grip reveal. It’s available in countless options of wood veneer, powder-coated polyester, and metal trims. Meeting table options include a 72-inch-square version with power and data drawers; its layered back-painted glass top boasts a chrome reveal, set off by a chrome-trimmed polyester base.
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SPACE 1123A Patterns from two new series offer fresh
spins on time-honored fabrics. Part of the Flax collection, Patina is made of, yes, flax, which is spun with wool, fiber-dyed, and offered in 40+ colorways. The Synergy collection includes a wide wool panel fabric, in two dozen solids, as well as Paris Wakefield Additions’s Zig Zag upholstery, animated with multicolored parallel lines.
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thonet SPACE 11-111 The legendary manufacturer lives up to its Legacy with this collection inspired by Bruno Weil’s No.1294 bent plywood chair, originally introduced in 1946. Dorsey Cox updated the classic design, creating chairs, barstools, personal desks, and various heights of communal tables sturdy enough for hospitality and health-care environments. And Weil’s timeless profile can now be specified in various plywoods, including maple, oak, or walnut.
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dining guide fresh pick! Bar Takito [¢] Hit up this Latin shared-plate eatery for fun, festive fare inspired by Mexico and South and Central America. See page 92 for more details. 201 North Morgan Sreet; 312-888-9485.
With all the hours you clocked traipsing the Mart, it’s no wonder your stomach is growling! But where to satisfy it? Our annual roundup of dining destinations will help you decide.
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[¢] Moderate. [$] Expensive.
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1416 South Michigan Avenue; 312-566-9300.
This seasonal American restaurant gets its name from architect Charles B. Atwood, who designed the 1895 landmarked Reliance Building it’s housed inside. But it is BCDG Studio that refreshed the current interiors with crisp white subway tile and tufted black-leather banquettes. As for the menu, it serves up such homey, flavorful classics as pan-seared chicken and rhubarb upside-down cake. 1 West Washington Street; 312-368-1900.
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Earning a Michelin star less than a year after opening is no small feat, yet that’s what Alinea alums Michael Carroll and Craig Sindelar have achieved. The brewhouse is set in an industrial brick building accessed by a sunny yellow door. The eclectic list of brewed-in-house drafts—the floral Cherry Kyoto and the black wheat ale (Sitting on) the Dark of the Bay among them—rotates seasonally and influences the food menu, which offers such delights as 30-day aged steak or braised celery root with pumpkin seeds, pecans, brown butter, leek oil, and vegetable caramel. 4710 North Ravenswood Avenue; 773-271-4710.
Bar Takito [¢] Is it Mexican you’re craving? Then get thee to this Latin shared-plate concept kitchen that draws inspiration from Mexico and Central and South America. The food is local and seasonal with inventive (but not out-there) takes on the quintessential, like an avocado margarita or the coffee-braised beef barbacoa tacos. Designed by D+K and Alex Alcott, the interiors are equal parts fun, festive, and industrial. Party time.
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Bernie’s Lunch & Supper [¢/$] At Bernie’s, named after co-owner Zack Sklar’s grandfather, the servers wear tags with fake monikers like “Ethel” and “Wilbur.” So, you might expect a throwback menu but in fact the food falls loosely under the Mediterranean banner—think sweet-potato falafel sandwich. The luxe-industrial turquoise banquettes and custom brass chandeliers were masterminded by 555 International. If you strike happy hour, there’s an affordable menu of bites, which can be enjoyed on the rooftop bar, where one of the cocktails is called Weekend at Bernie’s 3. 660 North Orleans Street; 312-624-9892.
Brindille [$] You may recognize this one: It won the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design, thanks to Bureau of Architecture and Design. Principal Tom Nahabedian, who’s a cousin of the chef, Carrie Nahabedian, outfitted the space in a serene arboreal theme (brindille is French for “twig”) of branchlike Lindsey Adelman light fixtures and walnut accents redolent of a forest. The cuisine is equally exquisite: lobes of foie gras, caviar atop Cortes Island oysters, sweetbreads with cocoa—and those are just the appetizers. 534 North Clark Street; 312-595-1616.
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As the general public continues its fascination with culinary culture, a trade term has entered the layperson’s lexicon: “the family meal,” which is what’s served to employees before a restaurant opens for dinner service. When chef Roland Liccioni was tapped for this all-day brasserie inside the Hyatt Centric, he thought about which meals made his colleagues in the kitchen happiest—thus the menu’s mix of comforting French classics: omelets, French dip, and steak frites. 100 West Monroe Street; 312-754-6560.
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Hearty Italian-American cuisine is the wheelhouse of this highly rated trattoria serving the usual (tasty) suspects. Stuffed artichokes, baked ziti, thin-crust pizzas, and other classics grace the menu. There’s also Joe Mama’s meatball salad and a pizza with garlic oil, minced clams, fontinella cheese, and basil for slightly tweaked fare. Black-and-white photos and a vast wooden bar contribute to the ambience.
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Chef Stephanie Izard has a herd of goat-named restaurants in the West Loop. This is the most recent, and it comes with the endearingly up-front tagline “reasonably authentic Chinese.” Classics like moo shu pork mingle with such unusual takes as goat and duck skin spring rolls, glass noodles with smoked blueberries, and a miso sundae. The setting, courtesy of AvroKO, is sultry and decadent, conjuring a dreamlike version of Chinatowns across America—the perfect spot for a late-night feast.
Fire and ice is the theme of this Mexican restaurant from James Beard Foundation Award–winning chef Rick Bayless. Raw seafood is the ice, while everything else— braised short ribs, butter-roasted plantains, char-seared octopus—is cooked over a wood fire. Design Bureaux balanced the rustic cuisine with luxurious saddleleather chairs and walnut tables and made a feature of the exhibition-style chef’s kitchen, visible to all diners. It’s all enveloped in colors recalling the landscape of Oaxaca, the region that influences the mescal libations.
857 West Fulton Market; 312-902-3825.
900 West Randolph Street; 312-733-1975.
The name means love in Danish, and it is that culture’s cuisine that subtly inspires the fare at David and Anna Posey’s new eatery, where you can start with poached cod and end with a sunflower-seed parfait. Food aside, the design by Boone Interiors is also reason enough to go. It’s artsy and serene with wallpaper handdrawn by Anna, Apparatus sconces, chairs by the mid-century Danish designer Ejvind A. Johansson, and a courtyard warmed by an open fire.
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Momotaro [$] As far as Japanese restaurants go, this one breaks the mold. Its 11,000 square feet, designed by AvroKO, offer multiple dining experiences—from the sushi bar, set in the middle of the main floor, akin to a buzzing stock exchange, to a subterranean izakaya, dedicated to craft cocktails and inspired by the back alleys of Tokyo. Food choices are equally diverse: The extensive menu offers nigiri, robata skewers, and hibachi, among countless other options. 820 West Lake Street; 312-733-4818.
Frontier [¢] Should you have time to really break away from the Mart, head on over to “the edge of civilization,” aka West Town. Your palate should have that same sense of adventure, since nature dictates what’s on the menu. There are sausages made of wild boar or venison, smoked beef-cheek tacos, and an entire section dedicated to alligator (hot fried gator legs, anyone?). Saddle up to the generous wooden bar in the rustic main dining room, or kick back in the open-air beer garden. 1072 North Milwaukee Avenue; 773-772-4322.
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Roister [$] This is a fairly casual eatery for the acclaimed Alinea Group, but it’s just as excellent—and certainly lively, even boisterous at times. The tagline is “the kitchen is the restaurant, the restaurant is the kitchen,” and chef Andrew Brochu follow suit with high cuisine rooted in primal cooking techniques. Whole chicken with chamomile, maple-poached salmon, and hearth-baked lasagna are some of the dishes on offer. Enjoy them at the usual table-for-two or sit at the bar facing the open kitchen and watch the chefs work their magic. 951 West Fulton Market; reservations via tocktix.com.
A restaurant group from Indonesia makes a move to North America, landing in the Windy City. The food, though, is less Balinese and more Chinese, with a special focus on chef Wang Hongjun’s lamian, or hand-pulled noodles. Instagram aficionados fixate on the colorful xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, which come in a rainbow of hues corresponding to flavors such as spicy Szechuan, crab, truffle, and Gruyère. Designed by Jakarta-based firm Metaphor, the birdcage pendant fixtures and handmade lattice screens offer a contemporary take on traditional tropes.
WEDNESDAY 6 West Hubbard Street; 312-595-9440.
The Aviary [$]
Libations emerge from smoking chests. Elixirs steep in miniature French presses. Liquor is suspended in an ice orb, ready to be cracked open and consumed. These are just some of the theatrical presentations at Grant Achatz’s cocktail lounge. Though each drink can be served à la carte, the menu’s multicourse format ($65) is encouraged, the cocktails taking on the arc of a meal: a lighter concoction to start, moving to more substantial offerings, and ending with a digestif. For $135, enjoy a five-course pairing of food and drinks. 955 West Fulton Street; 312-226-0868.
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Scenes from a spectacular three days at NeoCon. A big thanks to photographer Mary Clare Glabowicz for her inspired snapshots, and to the Mart for hosting us. See you next year!
Barber & Osgerby’s Jay Osgerby and Edward Barber at Vitra.
At the Interiors from Spain booth.
SNAPS Jesse Davis and Marisa Pichigian of Arc-Com.
Kurt Vander Schuur, Lauren Rottet, Primo Orpilla, Ghislaine Viñas, and Carlos Posada with Interior Design’s Cindy Allen at Rottet Collection.
Leon Ransmeier at Maharam.
Jeff Hollingsworth at DarRan.
Steve Symons, Anastasia Su, Tom Von Dessel, and Martin Lesjak at BuzziSpace.
Paul Godwin, Susan Lobel, and Shimoda Design Group’s Susan Chang.
Janice Feldman of Janus et Cie.
Brad Ascalon at Gunlocke.
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Joyce Romanoff of Maya Romanoff.
Alberto Meda at Vitra.
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Rory Gordon and Keith Gordon of Architex.
IIDA educator of the year Jon Otis and Pratt design students meet Dorothy Cosonas at KnollTextiles.
Sina Pearson of Momentum Group.
Paulo Kos of West Elm Workspace with Inscape.
Human Connections at Interface.
Ryan Menke of OFS Brands.
Interior Design’s Cindy Allen with Holly Hunt.
Todd van der Kruik and Sherry Dreger of Bentley.
Annual Health and Wellness Roundtable On Monday, Interior Design’s Carol Cisco and Annie Block led a lively talk on trends.
Mannington Commercial’s Roby Isaac.
Annie Block, deputy editor of Interior Design.
Publisher Carol Cisco, Gensler’s Anne Gibson, and HDR’s Tom Trenolone. Eric Koffler, Harley Ellis Devereaux; The group of 25 at Cynthia Hubbell, Mohawk Group; Amber Matter in the Mart. Wernick, Clive Wilkinson Architects.
Kristie Strasen and Susan Lyons at Designtex.
Cindy Allen with Sergio Chismol and Piergiorgio Cazzaniga at Andreu World.
Gift bags by Sunbrella, a sponsor.
Louis Lim with his 3form Mobius.
Kari Pei of Interface was one of many big-name designers to chat with Helene Oberman on day two of Interior Design Live, presented by Carnegie. Thanks for tuning in!
Carole Baijings of Scholten & Baijings.
Steve Atkins and Natalie Jones at Sunbrella Contract.
Co-chairs Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins.
Ana Segovia of Odosdesign.
The DIFFA/Chicago 2017 gala, mounted at the Modern Wing of the Art Institute, was dedicated to the cause of eradicating HIV/ AIDS in our lifetime. Honorary cochairs—and Gensler co-CEOs—Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins lent their star wattage to the bash.
DIFFA/Chicago board chairman Kim Winzeler.
Board member Jen McCordCrestondina and Tim Smith. TV personality Catherine De Orio.
Designer Todd Bracher.
Held at the Four Seasons Hotel, Sunday’s IIDA Cool gala celebrated winners of the organization’s annual awards program— including design firms Gensler and LSM.
Kari Pei of Interface.
Rockwell Group’s Barry Richards.
IIDA Will Ching and Interior Design competition winners.
New York Design Center’s Dennis Cahill and Hall of Famer Eva Maddox.
Rob and Mary Jo Fasan join Nila and Ron Leiserowitz.
Annie Chu, Gabrielle Bullock, Dina Griffin, and Cheryl S. Durst.
Gensler’s Carlos Martínez.
Gensler’s Tina Rothermund, Philippe Paré, and Robin Klehr Avia.