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Mary and Tom's laid-back, midcentury-influenced style makes the most of the building's good bones and great views. The large picture windows that are the centerpiece of the unit are left unadorned and accented only by a cozy sitting area, while an Arco light ties together the open floor plan between the dining and living rooms. The couple, who work together from home writing grant proposals, are particularly skilled at arranging their various collections — there's something interesting to look at no matter which way you turn from vintage radios to Tom's paintings to Scandinavian glassware. When they moved in four years ago, they got rid of the worn furniture that had seen them through graduate school and began to focus on buying furniture and art they both love, from iconic chairs to quirky pillows. While they're loyal customers of the upscale minichain Luminaire, they're also great at scoring bargains, from backalley finds to vintage stores. Many of their Haywood-Wakefield pieces were purchased together for a steal on Ebay from a woman who wanted to sell everything quickly.

Best of all, for all of the history surrounding the building and many of the furniture pieces, this house is very clearly a home, full of family photos, humorous mementos and art, knitting baskets, and cozy places for their cat miss jackson to curl up. Our Style: Contemporary with heavy mid-20th century design influences. We drool over completely spare spaces featured in design magazines, but we live here and work here and have a 13-year old cat miss jackson with "issues" and a big library and a big vinyl/78rpm collection and a lot of big pieces by local artists. Totally spare is heavenly in theory, but not totally realizable for us in practice. And spare precludes or at least inhibits eclecticism, which we like. We have some really expensive pieces, and we have other things we "gleaned" from yard sales, thrift stores, and trash piles. Inspiration: In print, we're really inspired by Dwell as well as books on both domestic and commercial architects/architecture. On line, we love Apartment Therapy, of course !, and Design Sponge.

In life, we draw a lot of inspiration from the architecturally amazing city in which we live. We reside in an historic building the Manhattan Building in the Printers Row neighborhood and are surrounded by masterpieces like the Monadnock and the Rookery, but are also a stone's throw from amazing new buildings and spaces like Piano's modern wing at the Art Institute and Gehry's band shell in Millennium Park. Tom is also a docent at Wright's Robie House, which is inspiring every single time you walk into it. Favorite Element: Tom: Random Bookshelves by MDF Italia. Mary: Our lighting--the three Castiglioni-designed Flos lamps, the Arco, the orange Nesso Artemide lamps, the two Flos Glo-Ball T lamps, the black standing lamp with the "shut up shade" and the big wacky nature shade in the office. If we had the room, we'd love to have the Fortuny lamp. It's just too big. And it has a crazy big price tag! Biggest Challenge: The kitchen and the bathrooms, which also serve as the biggest embarrassments.

They are such big and expensive projects, and we've just ignored them really. It's hard to know where to start, how to segment off discreet projects, how to work on the small stuff while awaiting the winning lottery ticket that would allow us to do the big stuff. We're also challenged by the mirrored closet doors and walls in the front entranceway. We hate them, but don't know quite what to do with them. Rip everything out, replaster, repaint and get new closet doors? Wallpaper over the whole thing? A mesh metal curtain? We've considered all of these options, but have decided on nothing to date. What Friends Say: I can't believe you got such a big space in an historic building in the loop! We really did luck out on the size. People also comment on our classic pieces--the Arco, the womb chair, the Noguchi coffee table, the Bertoia chairs--and the artwork, most of which is by Chicago artists. Biggest Embarrassment: See "Biggest Challenge" section above! The embarrassment within the embarrassment is the "Broadway" style lights framing the mirrors in not one, but both bathrooms.

Of course, the hideous beige berber carpet in the master and guest bedrooms is hardly a source of pride ... Ditto on the track lighting that we've yet to remove. Proudest DIY: All of the bookshelves except the Random are DIY from our graduate school days. We would actually really like to either replace them with some cool shelving/modular storage pieces from BO Concept or get some custom pieces made ... And we can include the fireplace surround here, too, though it wasn't totally DIY. When we moved in, it was more crazy mirroring. Inspired by a friend's fireplace, we removed all the mirrors and worked with a really talented local artisan named Jan Sopoci who created what we have now out of rolled steel. It's Jan's prideful piece, but we really love it. Biggest Indulgence: The wall mounted TV "cabinet" and shelving unit elevenfive by MDF Italia. The Athos sideboard by B&B Italia was a close second. The amazing series of photographs by a local artist Kyle Brumfield is right up there, too.