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Traditional Home teamed with Chicago’s Merchandise Mart to sponsor DreamHome 2006, featuring nine rooms created by some of Chicago’s top designers. With its sophisticated display of comfortable elegance, DreamHome is a celebration of high-style design and down-home function.
DreamHome is in the north lobby of the Merchandise Mart, which is located at Kinzie and Wells streets. The showhouse, which runs through December 22, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Tours are free, but there is a suggested admission donation of $5 to benefit The University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation. For additional details, call 800/677-6278 or visit merchandisemart.com. After touring the DreamHome, get in the holiday spirit by visiting the Merchandise Mart’s One of a Kind Show and Sale.
The One of a Kind Show and Sale
December 8–10 at The Merchandise Mart (800/677-6278 or merchandisemart.com/oneofakindshow) $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and students, children under 12 free. Find fine art, photography, jewelry, furniture, and the newest fashions. Added bonuses include on-site packaging and shipping, child care, plus a sports lounge for non-shoppers.
Kitchen
David Kaufman and Tom Segal
Why have a plain-jane kitchen when you can have a cooking-and-entertaining space that resembles a private dining room in an exclusive restaurant?
“We wanted it to be innovative and sexy,” says Tom Segal, who created the DreamHome kitchen with his partner, David Kaufman. So instead of white and stainless steel, the pair opted for dark, rich, and colorful.
At one end of the room stands a lacquer-red island, with a round bowl sink and a stainless-steel faucet with a pullout hose. Wall cabinets incorporate display shelves and wine storage, and most appliances are discreetly sheathed in wood to fade into the background. At the other end, a sculptural bronze table is surrounded by chairs in woven red leather. For additional storage, hefty Chinese cabinets were placed on either side of the rouge marble fireplace. “A kitchen should be up to the style level of the rest of your house,” says Kaufman, “but without losing sight of the functional qualities.”
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