River North has a big concentration of furniture stores, tile stores, home stores, and the like. I used to joke that if you had to take a trip in the wilderness and could only shop around here you'd die in about 2 days because there is literally nothing to purchase within 5 miles that is essential for human survival. Many of the stores, especially in the Merchandise Mart, are paranoid about letting you take pictures, as if it contains state secrets or something. I had a guard tell me to put away my camera while taking a picture of a window display one time. I didn't know that high end furniture and housewares was so cloak and dagger...
This store has some sort of weird kitchen "pod" from the future.
Hastens Beds... they actually sell a sixty thousand dollar bed (although I don't know if it is in stock in the store, since I have never set foot in the place). They have a big show room and a flat screen TV in the window showing a video of how the beds are constructed, by hand. If you check out the link to their site it is pretty racy on the front page, not sure if I understand the connection but I'll take it.
Here is another weird trend... furniture about 2 inches above the floor. This is a very high end place and I can't read the tag so I am sure that you are paying big $ for these couches. Note the weird color patterns, too.
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Hey, with the furniture on the floor, we were ahead of this trend when I lived in a house in college. If one leg broke on a chair we simply cut or broke off the others and then the piece was usable, albeit on a lower level, on the floor.
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