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Neighborhood Guide: Italian Dining at Pelago Ristorante

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: August 16, 2012

One block east of Michigan Avenue, in Chicago’s Gold Coast, you can find Pelago Ristorante — a little slice of Italy nestled in the Hotel Raffaello. Chef Mauro Mafrici and his wife Kimberly host this upscale contemporary Italian restaurant, a beautiful escape from the busy downtown streets offering exquisite food and genuine flavors.

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Pelago Restaurant. Photo by Elenora Pasarelli.

Italian born architect, Kimberly Mafrici combines a modern feel with timeless sophistication to create the elegant atmosphere of Pelago. Seating only 60, the dining room offers an intimate setting, the ambiance charming and romantic. Clean white tones against rich wood create a fresh simplicity that allows you to completely relax with your food, wine and company. Details of chandeliers, aqua colored glass and a grandeur fireplace add the perfect touch of bold beauty to the refined elegance of the dining room.

Chef Mauro mixes contemporary and classic to provide a beautiful and authentic menu. Alongside delectable dishes including Italian seafood, veal, cheeses and desserts, Pelago is particularly known for their homemade pasta. If you cannot choose just one dish, try the Chef’s tasting meal, which allows you to sample a variety of entrees, pasta dishes and desserts. Offering an impressive wine list, fresh ingredients from local sources and artistic presentation, Chef Mauro creates a unique and delicious selection. These creative dishes and new sensations distinguish Pelago as exceptional Italian dining.

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Pelago Restaurant. Photo by Elenora Pasarelli.

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Pelago Restaurant. Photo by Elenora Pasarelli.

Described as a hidden gem in the city, Pelago combines gracious hospitality with sophisticated design and culinary delights. Surrounded by the lavish stores and distinguished streets of the Gold Coast, Pelago is truly a quiet oasis amidst the bustling city. Come in to enjoy a quaint lunch, terrace dining in the summer or a romantic evening in the neighborhood.

For additional information, call 312.280.0700 or visit their website. Hours: Lunch Daily: Monday-Sunday: 11:30a.m.–2:30p.m. Dinner Everyday: Sunday-Thursday: 4:30p.m.-10:30p.m. Friday-Saturday: 4:30p.m–11p.m. Pelago is located at 201 East Delaware Place.

Photo Credit: Elenora Pasarelli.

Emmaline Niendorf is a Content Manager at Otherwise Incorporated.

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Neighborhood Guide: The Graham Foundation

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: January 25, 2012

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts presents Ceci n’est pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman, opening January 26, 2012.

Ceci n’est pas une rêverie (This is not a dream) is a retrospective and reexamination of the architectural concepts of Stanley Tigerman. The installation spreads through all three floors of the Graham Foundation’s Madlener House. Tigerman’s texts, sketches, architectural drawings and models are organized in relation to nine themes, including Utopia, Allegory, Humor, Death, Division, (Dis)Order, Identity, Yaleiana and Drift. The exhibition is on view through May 19, 2012.

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Stanley Tigerman, American, born 1930, The Titanic, 1978, Photomontage on paper, Approx. 28 x 35.7 cm, Gift of Stanley Tigerman, 1984.802, The Art Institute of Chicago. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago.

Ceci n’est pas une rêverie was curated by Emmanuel Petit, Associate Professor in the Yale School of Architecture. The Chicago presentation is organized by Sarah Herda and Ellen Hartwell Alderman from the Graham Foundation.

Stanley Tigerman is a Chicago native who earned his BA and MA from Yale University. In 1986, he founded Tigerman McCurry Architects with his wife Margaret McCurry. His accomplishments extend to authoring seven books, representing the U.S. at the 1976 and 1980 Venice Biennales and exhibiting in major galleries and museums around the world.

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Stanley Tigerman, Architoon - Houston, 1983.

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Stanley Tigerman, Career Collage, 1978.

Tigerman has also shown a strong dedication to advancing Chicago architecture. Most recently, he co-curated the exhibition Design on the Edge: Chicago Architects Reimagine Neighborhoods, featuring transit projects commissioned by the city’s top young design talent. The exhibition is currently on view at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and was supported with a grant from the Graham Foundation.

Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the exchange of challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society. The Graham Foundation is located in the Madlener House, a 9,000 square foot Prairie-style mansion located in the historic Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago.

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Stanley Tigerman, Instant City Model, 1966. Photo Balthazar Korab.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 11AM to 5PM; every third Thursday of the month, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Graham Foundation will offer public tours of Ceci n’est pas une rêverie every Saturday at 2 p.m.

The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is located in the Madlener House at 4 West Burton Place. For additional information, call 312.787.4071 or visit Graham Foundation.

Emmaline Niendorf is an Integrated Marketing Associate with Otherwise Incorporated.

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Lux Life: The Graham Foundation

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: September 29, 2011

Located in the heart of the Gold Coast, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts has been one of Chicago’s most prestigious cultural institutions since 1956. The Graham Foundation is available to the public not only as a forum on architecture and design but also as a gallery. The 2011 season opens October 7 with the exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines.

The Foundation awards project-based grants and creates public programs to encourage the development and exchange of challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture and society. Created by prominent Chicago architect Ernest R. Graham, the Foundation has awarded more than 3,900 grants to individuals and organizations.

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Nancy Holt, Concrete Visions, 1967, composite of four 126-format black-and-white photographs, New Jersey.

The Graham Foundation seeks to provide opportunities to create projects in a way that will contribute to artists’ creative, intellectual and professional growth at critical stages in their careers. By providing a space to take positions and engage in debate, artists and their communities work to develop new forms of expression. A crucial piece of Chicago’s history, the Graham Foundation helps integrate artists and their work with the community at large.

The Graham Foundation has truly stood the test of time. By continuing to take necessary risks to support innovative architectural projects, they maintain their commitment to Ernest Graham’s original concepts. Every grant applicant is considered on an objective basis, providing a platform to support new and existing artists and communicate their work in the public sphere, reaching wide and diverse audiences.

Nancy Holt: Sightlines
October 2 – December 17, 2011

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Nancy Holt shooting the film Sun Tunnels, 1978, The Papers of Nancy Holt, Galisteo, New Mexico. Photo Lee Deffebach.

Opening October 2, the Graham Foundation presents Nancy Holt: Sightlines, offering an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture and time-based media. A symposium, artists talk and book-signing talk will take place on Saturday, October 8.

Since the late 1960s, Nancy Holt has created a diverse body of work, including films, videos, installations, sound art and concrete poetry. The exhibition includes documentation from more than 40 different projects, showcasing films, videos and related works from 1966 to 1980.The exhibit also features pivotal works that transform how we perceive landscape through the use of different observational modes.

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Nancy Holt, Views Through a Sand Dune, 1972, cement-asbestos pipe, sand, Narragansett Beach, Rhode Island.

Featured in the exhibition are Holt’s film Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the creation of her well-known site-specific work Sun Tunnels, and Pine Barrens (1975), a meditative documentary about a notoriously vast, undeveloped region in central New Jersey. Through her use of cylindrical forms, light and techniques of reflection, Holt allows viewers to engage with the landscape in new and challenging ways.

Nancy Holt has been awarded numerous prestigious awards, including five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Internationally recognized, Holt’s work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Tate Modern in London, and elsewhere.

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Nancy Holt, Preparatory drawing of “Sun Tunnels,” 1975, pencil and twelve black and white photographs on paper, 14x20in.

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Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973-76, concrete, steel, earth. Great Basin Desert, Utah.


The Graham Foundation is located in the Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place. For additional information, call 312. 787.4071 or visit Graham Foundation.

Emmaline Niendorf is an Integrated Marketing Associate with Otherwise Incorporated.

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Lux Life: Belle Vie Bridal Couture

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: August 19, 2011

Located on the elite Oak Street in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Belle Vie Bridal Couture carries the most elegant bridal attire in the city. This chic bridal boutique offers an exquisite designer collection, including gowns from Amsale, Chistos, Christian Lacroix, Justina McCaffrey, Reem Acra and Romona Keveza. Since opening in 2004, owner Amanda Bonnell has truly transformed Belle Vie into the premier destination for bridal couture in Chicago.

Belle Vie Bridal Couture
Belle Vie is home to a nationally recognized team whose expertise and genuine passion for all things bridal will create an unforgettable experience. Fine luxury bridal service is the foundation of their philosophy. Customized service promises to find every bride the gown of her dreams. Belle Vie works with brides throughout the entire process, from trying the dress on, to creating a look, to the moment she walks down the aisle.

Belle Vie boasts the most beautiful one-of-a-kind dresses, impeccable service, and a personalized process of dress selection. Customers are warmly welcomed in as guests, escorted to a private suite and toured through the showrooms of gowns. The total experience creates an unforgettable memory for brides on their most important day.

Belle Vie Bridal Couture
Belle Vie specializes not only in selecting a wedding dress, but creating a complete look for each bride. They work to complement the dress with the perfect accessories, coordinating shoes, veils and invitations to capture and enhance the style. Gorgeous Mother of the Bride and flower girl dresses are available as well. The extensive selection includes accessories such as jewelry, veils and headpieces.

A vision from the inside out, Belle Vie seamlessly blends a contemporary yet authentic atmosphere reminiscent of an Haute Couture Parisian boutique. The modern French ambiance and gracious hospitality create a truly memorable journey.

Belle Vie Bridal Couture
Upcoming events at Belle Vie include the Judith Leiber Trunk Show, August 23rd – 25th, a Sample Sale on August 27th, and the Romona Keveza Evening Trunk Show on August 26th and 27th.

Belle Vie is located at 34 East Oak Street, 4th Floor.

For additional information, call 312.751.2222 or visit Belle Vie Bridal Couture.

Emmaline Niendorf is an Integrated Marketing Associate with Otherwise Incorporated.

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Lux Life: Burdi Italian Menswear

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: August 8, 2011

Nestled in the heart of Chicago’s Gold Coast is the distinguished Men’s Italian clothier Burdi. Alfonso Burdi, a master tailor from Bari, Italy, opened Burdi forty years ago. Today, his son Rino Burdi carries on his legacy. The magnificent three-story granite building exudes a luxury that caters to the city’s elite. The philosophy behind Burdi is based on elegance, quality and exclusivity. Burdi is recognized nationally as Chicago’s premier boutique for Italian Menswear.

Burdi offers their clientele menswear that is customized, made-to-measure and ready-to-wear. When Alfonoso Burdi began the company, he drew and cut the pattern to create a custom garment that ensured the proper fit throughout a process of multiple fittings. Rino Burdi maintains his father’s leading skills and standards, traveling to Italy every season in search of the finest designs and textiles from Italian fashion shows and boutiques.

Burdi Clothing
Burdi produces unique garments by blending the tradition of Italian tailors with modern techniques. The collection ranges from suits, shirts, slacks, sport coats, shoes, ties and accessories. Attention to detail, quality textiles and high caliber designs create distinctive clothing attire that transcend other menswear clothiers.

Burdi strives to cultivate lasting relationships with clients across generations. You will find that their expertise and passion resonates throughout your entire shopping experience, from selection, to custom tailoring to care of your garment. Burdi is known for dressing their exceptional clients for life.

Burdi Clothing
Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm, and evenings by appointment.
Located at 58 East Walton Street.
For additional information, call 312.642.9166 or visit www.burdiclothing.com.

Emmaline Niendorf is an Integrated Marketing Associate with Otherwise Incorporated.

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Neighborhood Guide: Italian Dining at Pelago Restaurant

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: June 28, 2011

One block east of Michigan Avenue, in Chicago’s Gold Coast, you can find Pelago Restaurant — a little slice of Italy nestled in the Hotel Raffaello. Chef Mauro Mafrici and his wife Kimberly play host to this upscale contemporary Italian restaurant, a beautiful escape from the busy downtown streets with exquisite food and genuine flavors.

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Italian born architect, Kimberly Mafrici combines a modern feel with timeless sophistication to achieve the elegant atmosphere of Pelago. Seating only 60, the dining room offers an intimate setting, the ambiance charming and romantic. Clean white tones against rich wood create a fresh and sincere simplicity that allows you to relax into the lull of your food, wine and company. Details of chandeliers, aqua colored glass and a grandeur fireplace add the perfect dose of bold beauty to the refined elegance of the dining room.

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Chef Mauro mixes contemporary and classic to provide a beautiful and authentic menu. Alongside delectable dishes including Italian seafood, veal, cheeses and desserts, Pelago is known particularly for their homemade pasta. If you cannot choose just one dish, try the Chef’s tasting meal, which allows you to sample a variety of entrees, pasta dishes and desserts. Offering an impressive wine list, fresh ingredients from local sources and artistic presentation, Chef Mauro creates a unique and delicious selection. These creative dishes and new sensations distinguish Pelago as exceptional Italian dining.

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Described as a hidden gem in the city, Pelago combines gracious hospitality with sophisticated design and culinary delights. Surrounded by the lavish stores and distinguished streets of Gold Coast, Pelago is truly a quiet oasis amidst the bustling city. Come in to enjoy a quaint lunch, terrace dining in the summer or a romantic evening in the neighborhood.

Make reservations here. For additional information, call 312.280.0700 or email info@pelagorestaurant.com.

Hours of operation: Lunch Daily: Monday-Sunday: 11:30am – 2:30pm. Dinner Everyday: Sunday-Thursday: 4:30pm – 10:30pm. Friday and Saturday: 4:30pm – 11:pm.

201 East Delaware Place, Chicago, Illinois 60611. View map.

Photo Credit: Elenora Pasarelli.

Emmaline Niendorf is an Integrated Marketing Associate with Otherwise Incorporated.

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The Residences: “Real Estate of Mind”

By
Emmaline Niendorf
Published: March 16, 2011

“You won’t see finishes or amenities like this anywhere else in Chicagoland’s Gold Coast,” Michael Pierson (President & Chairman of Prudential Rubloff).

Jamie Glickstein is an Integrated Marketing Associate with Otherwise Incorporated.

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