Laura Layfer Treitman

HENRI BENDEL

While younger Chicagoans may not be familiar with Bendel’s, the elegant midsized department store that once reigned on Manhattan’s 57th Street and later on Fifth Avenue and on Chicago’s Mag Mile, most fashion mavens will recall the store’s iconic brown and white striped logo. When magazine writer and editor Tim Allis learned that a biography

HIS MAJESTY

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain may be the first literary publication by London- based Martin Williams, but his imprint on social media has reached fans far and wide who enjoy his posts of sophisticated images and information on cultural discourse. Williams’ inaugural title, available in

HEDGE YOUR BETS

When Jenny Just, co-founder of PEAK6 Investments, a multi-billion- dollar options trading and technology firm, first heard her business partner and husband, Matt Hulsizer, mention the game of poker, it had nothing to do with their professional endeavors. He wanted their teenage daughter, Juliette Hulsizer, to learn how to play as a way to improve

IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME

London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and now Chicago comprise the growing roster of the famed Carpenters Workshop Gallery (CWG)’s global presence. Founded in 2006 by two childhood friends, Loïc Le Godard and Julien Lombrail, the firm was aptly named for the space it first inhabited in Chelsea, London. Realizing collectors had a

ART CENTRIC

Abby Pucker’s new Chicago-based initiatives, Gertie and Art in Common, are proof of the time-honored saying—the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Pucker, whose mother is a filmmaker and art collector and whose grandparents include a Boston art gallery owner and a Chicago philanthropist who commissioned a portrait by Andy Warhol, is continuing a

DECADES OF DRESS

The Collection of Fashion Designer Arthur McGee, to be auctioned at Hindman on March 14, 2023, brings a selection of 45 ensembles and documents, direct from private hands to a public audience. Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1933, McGee learned the art of dressmaking from his mother. Those skills were passed down to her son,

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