PAGODA RED
1714 North Damen Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
773-235-1188
www.pagodared.com
"China is a very complicated place,
which makes it a big challenge for me," says Betsy Nathan, the owner of Pagoda Red, a leading resource for Chinese furniture and
artifacts. To take on that challenge, Betsy studied Mandarin Chinese every day after work at the house of a Northwestern professor
before she moved to Beijing for two years and immersed herself in the culture.
Now Betsy travels to China frequently shopping for her Chicago store. She especially likes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
pieces from the northern province of Shanxi and 1930s upholstered blackwood Deco furniture from Shanghai. She also offers a large
collection of architectural artifacts, including lattice window panels and stone columns. She explains of her fascination for the
eastern country, "I like to find unusual things, and there is lots to be discovered in China still." |
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BROADWAY ANTIQUE MARKET
6130 North Broadway
Chicago, IL 60660
773-743-5444
www.bamchicago.com
Peruse the offerings of 70 different dealers in Chicago's largest antique store, which covers 20,000 square feet over two
floors and specializes in furniture and furnishings from the 1930s and 1950s. |
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DECORO
224 East Ontario Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-943-4847
Athene Carras travels to Japan,
China, Korea and beyond to find Asian antiques and art for her global galleries, which are softened with woodblock-printed
Venetian silk velvet pillows and bedspreads by artist Spinella.
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PAVILION ANTIQUES
2055 North Damen Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
773-645-0924
On shopping trips to France five
times a year, co-owner Deborah Kalman visits her "secret resources" in order to fill her eclectic store with great finds,
ranging from gilded Louis XVI–style mirrors to Rene Prou Art Deco furniture.
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ARCHITECTURAL ARTIFACTS, INC.
4325 North Raveswood
Chicago, IL 60613
773-348-0622
www.architecturalartifacts.com
This industrial warehouse is
packed with high-quality American and European architectural antiques, like stained glass windows and garden statuary. Need
an antique fireplace mantel? Architectural Artifacts has 300 to choose from.
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ARMAND LEE & CO., LTD.
840 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
312-455-1200
Frames for art and mirrors are
hand built in the company's workrooms above and below the first-floor showroom. Here, custom-made mirrors get an antique
silvering, and frames can be finished with églomisé—gold karat leaf on glass. |
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BLUMGARTEN
2444 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60614
773-388-2444
Owner Becky Husman and her son,
artist Lance Larsen, renovated a 130-year-old building to hold their floral service, which proffers cut flowers,
arrangements and houseplants. Don't miss the third-floor art gallery exhibitions. |
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CHALET ON THE GOLD COAST
40 East Delaware
Chicago, IL 60611
312-787-8555
Tuck into this small, well-stocked neighborhood gourmet store for cheeses, pâtés, caviar and chocolates. Then find the
perfect accompaniment by choosing from 8,000 wines, 100 different champagnes and 75 kinds of scotch. |
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ELEMENTS
102 East Oak Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-642-6574
An Asian-inspired, Zen-like
atmosphere created with neutral tones and slate floors sets the tone for an assortment of accessories, including vases,
candles, picture frames, table trimmings and jewelry.
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MCKINLEY DESIGN
1742 West Division Street
Chicago, IL 60622
773-252-7201
After learning how to weld
sculpture in California, McKinley Wells set up shop in Chicago with his sister Carmen to sell his clean, sleek,
stainless-steel furniture for homes, restaurants and nightclubs.
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A NEW LEAF
Studio and garden at 1818 North Wells Street
Chicago, IL 60614
312-642-8553
A profusion of cut flowers,
blossoming branches, collectible beads, colorful ribbons and glass and pottery are stylishly displayed in four different
stores, which have grown under the tender care of owner Marion Parry.
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OSCAR IBERIAN RUGS
1028 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60202
847-475-0000
and
122 West Kinzie Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312-467-1212
Looking for a balance of color and
design, Oscar and Sarkis Tatosian, grandsons of the store's founder, travel to Istanbul, New Delhi and Lahore for beautiful
rugs both new and antique, like those they found for the Chicago Polo mansion.
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SHASHI CAUDILL, PHOTOGRAPHS AND FINE ART
Call for an appointment:
773-248-2097
This private dealer, who helped
decorate the Chicago Polo store and restaurant, is an expert on American black-and-white photographs from the 1920s through
the late 1950s by the likes of Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott.
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