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Betsy Nathan’s Ginger Tea Recipe
As the weather cools off and the holidays near, we’re all spending more time in the kitchen. Like us, you might be looking for ways to keep cozy and fend…
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Donna Mondi: Enduring Style with an Edge
“I love vintage properties and the character they naturally possess,” says Chicago-based designer Donna Mondi. The catch? Many of the firm’s projects are new builds and luxury condos that don’t…
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A Shared Sensibility: Maya Romanoff & PAGODA RED
“Kindness and generosity,” are the words Joyce Romanoff uses again and again to describe her late husband, Maya. “It was important to him to create a community of people from…
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Michael Thompson: Studio Visit
The work of Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson defies even the most ardent attempts at classification. He’s the kind of creative whose technique, spirit, provocation and form is always cut with…
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Refurnishing & Revisiting the Farnsworth House
Designed by Mies van der Rohe in the late 1940s, the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois distills Mies’ modernist ideals into a clear expression of uncluttered structure. Over the years,…
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Take a Virtual Minibreak with a Visit to Ray Booth’s Healing Nashville Home
A partner at the prestigious architecture and interior design studio McAlpine, Ray Booth discovered PAGODA RED online years ago before visiting our Chicago space in person. “I have always felt…
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Meet Our Experts: PAGODA RED’s Design Concierges
Clients who enter the PAGODA RED gallery often tell us they feel they’ve been transported into another world. Inspired by classical Asian elements but designed with a modern sensibility, our…
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Tom Stringer: An Adventurous Life
Tom Stringer is well known for his worldly and client-centered approach, which he takes further than most designers. His process often involves traveling with clients, searching and shopping together as…
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Toyoharu Kii: Master of Modern Mosaics
A leader in the global craft resurgence, Japan-based artist Toyoharu Kii works with hand-cut Italian marble and smalti, Venetian glass handmade by the same Italian family for over 400 years. Constructed using…
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Chinese Scholar’s Rocks: Twists & Turns
The horticulturist and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll once said, “A garden is a grand teacher.” It’s fitting, then, that Chinese scholar’s rocks and stones should be sources of inspiration for…