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Great chairs, not much pattern

It's always informative to see how designers redo and decorate their own homes.

The pros featured in the January/February Metropolitan Home obviously spend a lot of time and money finding the best chairs. And not many are into patterned textiles.

Architect Geoffrey Goldberg and arts administrator Lynne Remington turned a classic Chicago three-flat into a very modern home.

This included tearing out walls and floors for an open look.

Furniture by Bertrand Goldberg, architect of Marina City and the homeowner's father, gets a special position in the living room.

Goldberg and Remington share the lesson that if you put cork on the floor, the underlayment had better be perfectly smooth.

The home won an award from the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Be sure to protect this tabletop

This new design from Thos. Moser is not the rustic, distressed type. It's simple, classic and elegant,

They call it Pasadena, but it's more likely inspired by the Atlantic off Maine, not the Pacific in California.

David Moser, youngest son of the company's founder, Thomas, is the designer.

"The edges of the table and chairs have a cascading effect where they just roll over the side," said David Moser. "It's like the edge never stops moving -- it's fluid like the tide."

The cherry table requires hours of hand carving and is available in two styles -- rectangular or square -- for $5,600 to $6,200.

The matching chairs have only one straight angle. The arm chair is $2,500, the side chairs $1,900 each.

Thos. Moser, based in Freeport, Maine, has a Chicago showroom in the Tree Studios at 607 N. State St.

Visit www.Thomasmoser.com or call (312) 867-4900.

Macy's flea market visits the suburbs

Speaking of great chairs, we have seen some at the flea market on the lower level of Macy's State Street store.

If you enjoy the kind of funky stuff you find at flea markets, hurry over to Macy's suburban homes stores in Oak Brook and Schaumburg.

Each will feature a small flea market through Friday.

We can't promise what's still there, because only a few pieces were brought to each store originally.

The Oak Brook store, 1717 W 22nd St., featured Swedish Gustavian, Indian and Moroccan treasures along with Spanish ceramics from 1880. Call (630) 645-4980.

In Schaumburg, 1200 N. Meacham Road, the themes are country French, English men's club and more Spanish ceramics. Call (847) 781-6200.

The kicker is that from Jan. 17-19 anything left will be deeply discounted (up to 70 percent) in the State Street flea market.

Not bad for a market where they won't dicker.

The pros featured in the January/February Metropolitan Home obviously spend a lot of time and money finding the best chairs. And not many are into patterned textiles.
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