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A SHAPE TO FILL A LACK

There was a time when it was practically a rite of passage for young artists to make a pilgrimage to Paris. Many stayed. Others descended on the city, imbibed the “ism” of the day, and moved on. In 1948, Eduardo Chillida, a native of San Sebastián, Spain, began a four-year sojourn in France. An architecture

#HASHTAG: ALICIA SEGAL

ALICIA SEGAL and her husband Robert founded Unison, a Chicago-based design-driven home furnishings brand in 2006. After moving to Finland in 1999 to work for the iconic Marimekko, the couple returned to Chicago four years later and established a freelance design studio—collaborating with such top brands as Crate & Barrel. Their passion for design led

BOOK MARKS

Eleanor Thorn, owner of Lake Forest Book Store, shares her favorite reads for November. Playgroundby Richard PowersFour lives are intricately connected in the new novel from the author of The Overstory—a powerful examination of friendship, technology, and mankind’s need to preserve ocean life. Revenge of the Tipping Pointby Malcolm Gladwell25 years after its initial publication,

GLASA HALF FULL—AND THEN SOME

Cindy Housner was a Milwaukee Public Schools employee when she first worked with adaptive athlete Jean Driscoll in the 1980s. Driscoll, a high school student at the time, competed as a wheelchair racer. “I watched her race a few times, and someone came up to me and said, ‘You know, she’s really good,’” Housner recalls.

#HASHTAG: DANA GORDON

DANA GORDON, the founder and designer behind Dana Rebecca Designs (DRD), spent her formative years exploring the intricacies of her father’s Chicago jewelry factory. This year marks the 17th anniversary of her own jewelry brand, with a flagship showroom proudly situated on the prestigious Magnificent Mile—an embodiment of her commitment to family and her beloved

FROM HARROWING TO HEARTENING

Nearly three years ago, while researching for her novel The Goddess of Warsaw, author and Deerfield resident Lisa Barr visited the home of Holocaust survivor Estelle Glaser Laughlin. “She lived 10 minutes away from me,” says Barr, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust. “As she opened her front door and we looked at each other, we

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