Monica Kass Rogers

Theresa Hansen, founder and principal of her Morris, Illinois-based design firm, has a deep appreciation for historic homes and the stories they tell. “But Henry Ives Cobb’s Pembroke Lodge is truly exceptional,” says Hansen. “Walking through at the start of this Showhouse restoration project, even in its demoed state we could envision the grandeur of

Hidden away from the hustle and bustle of Pembroke Lodge’s first-floor gathering rooms is a charming sitting room on its second floor. “We pictured it as a personal hideaway,” says Carly Moeller, founder and principal designer at Chicago’s Unpatterned interior design studio. “It’s a bit of an unexpected room,” says Moeller. “One in which we

When Liz Sherwood, founder and principal of White Couch Design, first walked through Henry Ives Cobb’s Pembroke Lodge it was like a fever dream: “Marble and mirrors and murals, oh my,” she recalls. As this was to be her first time designing in a Lake Forest Showhouse, Sherwood initially dismissed the former owner’s jewelry room

While there was no shortage of compelling spaces to choose from, when selecting a room to design in this year’s Lake Forest Showhouse, the ladies’ office charmed Emily Sturgess, founder and principal of Emily Sturgess Design in Winnetka, the most. “Its perch on the second floor overlooking Pembroke Lodge’s circular drive and formal gardens was

The moment Elizabeth Smolcich and her team at Mason & Brass Design stepped into Pembroke Lodge’s second-floor kitchenette “a 1920s speakeasy vibe took hold. We envisioned transforming the space into a hidden, mysterious lounge,” recalls Smolcich, principal designer and lead visionary for the Glenview-based design studio. “The kind of place you’d stumble upon and feel

Because she loves the potential an indoor/outdoor space offers, Rosemary Wormley, founder of Ash Street Interiors in Northfield, responded with an enthusiastic, “Yes!” to redesigning the tennis hut at Pembroke Lodge. Although she knew the project would be high risk due to the vagaries of Chicago weather, “the opportunity to transform not only the hut