Recent Posts Tagged With 'decorative arts'

• Holiday Hiatus #5

  Posted on Friday January 1st, 2010 at 02:20 in architecture, decorative arts

    [Rookery Building (1885) Burnham & Root, 209 S. La Salle Street, Chicago, November 12, 2009 /Image & Artwork:designslinger]Hello, Twenty-Ten!...

• Holiday Hiatus #2

  Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 01:57 in architecture, decorative arts

    [Art Institute of Chicago (1893) Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, September 16, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]High arch....

• Christmas

  Posted on Friday December 25th, 2009 at 02:39 in events, decorative arts

    [Oh Christmas Tree, oh Christmas tree /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Whether you celebrate the event or not, we send you our best wishes. ...

• Memorials in Glass

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 01:48 in decorative arts

    [Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum (1914) Sidney Lovell, Reade and Taylor Family crypts /Images & Artwork:  designslinger]Sometimes when you set out on an adventure you will find something surprising. That is just what happened to us when w...

• Zoo Lights

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 02:04 in events, decorative arts

    [Lincoln Park Zoo Lights /Image & Artwork: designslinger]We ventured out to Lincoln Park Zoo Friday night during Mother Nature's rather wet attempt at a snowfall.  [Lights on display /Images & Artwork: designslinger]Zoo Lights be...

• designslinger: Word of the Week

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 02:06 in dictionary, decorative arts

    [Candelabrum /Images & Artwork: designslinger]candelabrum n. (kan-de-LAH-bruhm); an ornamental branched holder for more than one candle, pl. candelabra   [Candelabrum, Palmer House Hotel lobby (1925-27) Holabird & Roche /Images &a...

• Daily Deco

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 02:00 in architecture, preservation, decorative arts

    [Chicago Daily News Building (1929) Holabird & Root, Riverside Plaza Building, 400 W.Madison Street, ChicagoNovember 12, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]I know it may be hard for some of you to believe, but there once was a time ...

• Hanukkah, Chanukkah

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 02:20 in events, decorative arts

  Tonight at sundown, Hanukkah begins.  [The Lights of Chanukkah /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Often called the Festival of Lights, the next 8 days commemorates an important event in Jewish history.  [Menorah in stone, KAM Isaiah Israel...

• The Reliance Building

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 02:35 in architecture, history, preservation, decorative arts

  We recently took a tour inside one of the oldest, modern skyscrapers in the world.  [Reliance Building (1890/1894) Burnham & Root, D.H. Burnham & Co., Charles Atwood, designer, 32 N. State Street, Chicago, June 29, 2009 /Images & Art...

• Christkindlmarket

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 02:30 in decorative arts

    [The City of Chicago Christmas Tree, Chicago's Picasso (1967) Pablo Picasso, Chicago, December 4, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]We went into the heart of Chicago's downtown district to see the city's Christmas tree in Daley Plaza, ...

• designslinger: Word of the Week

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 02:00 in dictionary, decorative arts

    [Terra cotta bas-relief panel (ca. 1880) Lincoln Avenue building facade, Chicago, July 10, 2009 /Image & Artwork:  designslinger]terra cotta (TER-uh-KOT-uh) n. hard fired clay especially that which is used in architectureor in decorat...

• Black Friday

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 03:15 in decorative arts

    [Marshall Field & Co. (1902) D.H. Burnham & Co., 111 N. State Street, Chicago, November 23,2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]There was a time in this country when the day after Thanksgiving was the official start of the Christm...

• Fish for Mr. Fisher

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 02:48 in architecture, history, decorative arts, architects

    [Fisher Building (1895-96) D.H. Burnham & Co., Charles Atwood designer, 343 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, November 11, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]When Lucius C. Fisher asked D.H. Burnham & Co. to design a skyscraper for hi...

• The Price of Gold

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 02:43 in architecture, interior design, cities, decorative arts

    [Napoleon III apartments, detail of door header with gold leaf, Louvre, Paris, April, 2009 /Image & Artwork:  designslinger]The price of gold is reaching all time highs week after week, during our Great Recession.  [Napoleon III ...

• It\'s Halloween!

  Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 03:30 in events, ephemera, decorative arts

    [Pumpkin on a porch, Chicago, October 13, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]When the frost is on the pumpkins,  [Fall leaves, Hutchinson Street, October 20, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]And the leaves begin to fall,&nbs...

• Sullivan in Detail

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 03:15 in architecture, preservation, decorative arts, architects

    [Louis Sullivan ornamentation (1899, 1903) Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. store, 2 N. State Street, Chicago, October 7, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Frank Lloyd Wright called him Lieber Meister. He was the country's first modern ar...

• Paris in Chicago

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 03:00 in history, cities, decorative arts

    [Paris Metro, Bastille, Paris, April 18, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]The picture above was taken in Paris at the Bastille Metro entrance in April.  [Chicago Metra, Van Buren Street, September 16, 2009 /Image & Artwork: de...

• Unity Temple Turns 100

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 03:00 in architecture, history, preservation, decorative arts, architects

    [Unity Temple (1909) Frank Lloyd Wright, Oak Park, IL. September 30, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple turned 100 on September 26th.  [Interior of the sanctuary /Images & Artwork: designslinger...

• Bloomingdale\'s at Home in Medinah Temple

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 03:04 in architecture, furniture, history, interior design, preservation, decorative arts

    [Medinah Temple (1913) Huehl & Schmid, 600 N. Wabash Street, Chicago, September 7, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]Bloomingdale's Home Store now occupies a space that once contained an auditorium of 4,000 seats for concert goers,...

• Toledo and Glass

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 03:34 in art, architecture, preservation, gardens, cities, decorative arts

  Toledo, Ohio. Not exactly a destination on everyones must see list, but a friend of ours lives there, and we drove out for a visit last week.  [Old West End, Toledo, Ohio, September 20, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]He lives in the O...

• Culturally Centered

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 03:45 in architecture, history, preservation, decorative arts

    [Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street, Chicago, IL  /Images & Artwork: designslinger]I love books, and had once spent many pleasurable hours thumbing through hundreds of volumes in this great, old library building.  [...

• High Holy Days

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 03:14 in architecture, history, decorative arts

    [Byzantine inspired detail, Temple Sholom, 3480 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Tomorrow evening, as sundown approaches, Jews around the world will begin observing the 10 day period known as the High Holy Days ...

• Steeples on the Landscape

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 03:23 in architecture, history, decorative arts

    [Saint Hedwig Roman Catholic Church (1899), Adolphus Druiding, architect, 2100 W. Webster Avenue, Chicago, August 29, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Chicago seems to be filled with churches. You can't walk through an old working clas...

• Division Street

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 03:30 in history, cities, decorative arts

    [Alliance Bakery, 1736 W. Division Street /Image & Artwork: designslinger]I have seen so many changes in the Chicago I once knew as we've wandered around the city. You can often see the signs of change in the signage. While Sompolski's All...

• Chicago in Detail

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 03:00 in architecture, decorative arts, architects

    [Porch and facade details, 600 Block of West Deming Place, Chicago /Images & Artwork: designslinger]After 13 years of living among the stucco houses of Los Angeles, I feel reborn in the midstof all the brick, terra-cotta, and stone of Chic...

• Musical Delights

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 03:25 in architecture, history, preservation, decorative arts

    [St. James Cathedral, Edward J. Burling, 1875, 671 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, August, 4, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Okay so it's not Lollapalooza, but we've been venturing out almost every Tuesday evening and heading down to the...

• I Love Cemeteries

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 03:28 in architecture, ephemera, decorative arts

    [Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, July 5, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]Admitting my love for cemeteries in such a public forum might seem weird. But, I'm coming out-of-the-closet and declaring to the world that I spend, have spent, an...

• A Grand Monument on Lincoln Park

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 03:07 in art, architecture, history, decorative arts

  If you want to see this:  [Reception Hall, Elks National Memorial /Image & Artwork: designslinger]You have to enter this...  [Elks National Memorial, 2750 N. Lakeview, Chicago, July 13, 2009 /Images & Artwork: designslinger]....the ...

• Architectural Salvage

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 03:14 in architecture, history, preservation, decorative arts

  Scavenging and saving bits and pieces of architectural ornamentation, and then reusing them elsewhere, has been going on since the Romans brought chunks of Greece to Italy.  [Balbo Monument, Burnham Park, Chicago, July 8, 2009 /Images & Artw...

• They Just Don't Build 'Em Like This Anymore - Pt. II

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 03:18 in architecture, history, preservation, decorative arts, architects

    [Medinah Athletic Club/InterContinental Chicago, lobby ceiling /Image & Artwork: designslinger]If you enter the large, glassy, brass-trimmed entrance to the InterContinental Chicago hotel on north Michigan Avenue, this is not what you will...