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  • Thanksgiving

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 02:45 in ephemera

      [Turkey Baster, Lee Kay, Halsted Street window display, November 23, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]Turkey day.  [Window sign, Broadway, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]...

  • designslinger: Word of the Week

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 02:11 in dictionary

      [Cullom Street, Chicago, November 12, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]festoon (fe-STOON) n. the representation of a garland of flowers, fruits and the likehanging from two points, heaviest at the middle and lightest at the point of su...

  • Nightfall

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 01:53 in Photography, ephemera, cities

      [Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris (12th-14th century) Paris, April 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Yesterday it was all bright and shiny, today it's all about darkness and night.  [Rue du Cloitre Notre-Dame, April 2009 /Image &...

  • Bright & Shiny

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 02:30 in Photography, ephemera

      [Cloud Gate (2004) Anish Kapoor; Jia Shan Shi No. 46 (2009)  Zhan Wang; Millennium Park, Chicago, November 2,2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]The sun's rays have a special quality during the Fall season. Shiny objects don't seem ...

  • Friday Snippets 11.20.2009

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 02:15 in slinger slinks

      [Hotel de Savoye, Paris, April, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Movie director Tim Burton's art on display at MoMA. [Wired]Zaha Hadid's temporary pavilion in Chicago is gone, but her new, permanent museumbuilding in Rome is ready and ...

  • designslinger: Word of the Week

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 02:00 in dictionary

      [U.S. Post Office - Loop Station (1973) Mies van der Rohe, Chicago, September, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]fenestration (fen-uh-STREY-shuhn) n. the arrangement in a building of its windows.  [South Dearborn Street wall facade...

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HappyHotelier

5 stars Happy Hotelier

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Great Stuff. Great Pics. From the Palmer House to Burnham and Root's Lakeview Church.

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Great articles about design and architecture.

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