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Design Harvest – A Street Festival Celebrating the Home / Sept 29th + 30th

Join us this weekend, along with Chicago’s best local furniture and home accessory makers, vintage and antique collectors, and local retailers of home design for Design Harvest, Chicago’s best festival celebrating the home. This is a weekend full of fun, including live music from the Hideout, hot cider, local brews, delicious eats, fantastic people, and loads of very cool local design. Shop our Unison booth and get 20% off. See you there!

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As Seen on Design Sponge

We love seeing our product paired with other beautiful textiles (#2 Sailor Charcoal Rectangle below). This week on Design Sponge, Amy Azzarito threw a bunch of black and white pillows together as options for her new living room. We love color, but really, who needs it when you’ve got all these great prints next to one another?

 

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A Great Time At FLOR

Thanks again to FLOR for asking Unison to participate in their design series on Pattern. Robert discussed the process and inspiration behind all of Unison’s fabrics, which was a lovely story to hear (even for us who work at Unison and have heard bits and pieces of it before).  FLOR had their store looking sharp with beautiful images for the fall season, making Unison feel right at home.  Here are a few images documenting the event.

Unison Pillows Feeling Right At Home
Robert Before his Talk
FLOR Store Manager, Eric Tobey Introduces Robert
The Unison Team - Robert and Alicia (one day before her due date!)
A Beautiful Spread

 

 

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PLAY DATE!

Come to the Studio+Store this Saturday 10am-4pm for PLAY DATE! An interactive event for kids and parents to explore local design and shop modern baby and kids bedding, décor, and toys at great discounts. We’ll have A Muse here to help kids and parents make their own customized hand-screened Unison pillow. Grow Studio will be here selling her first batch of cleverly designed eco-friendly houses for kids. Our local West Town bakery, Sweet Cakes, will be here offering their best mini-cupcakes and…drumroll…iced coffee for the parents! Don’t forget, we’ll be taking 30% off our entire line of baby and kids bedding for the event.

Plus we are debuting a line of exclusive baby booties by newcomer January Prints! January is by our very own Michelle Vondiziano, Sales Manager. Here is her little girl Inez wearing the first production! Super soft tricot lined, for ages 0-6 months and 6-12 months. They are adorable mini high tops for your little one!

Also featuring Hillery Sproatt for Unison! Hillery made these AMAZING hand crafted dolls and mobiles with Unison and January fabrics! Each doll has embroidered hair and is one-of-a-kind. Doesn’t get sweeter than this!

Here are Grow Studio’s “Little Dollhouses for Little Hands” made locally with 100% recyclable materials. They are so cute! We can’t wait to get our little hands on them. Will be for sale at PLAYDATE, plus meet maker and founder, Alyson Beaton!

 

 

 

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Unison Window Display at Morlen Sinoway Atelier / 8th Annual Guerrilla Truck Show

We had an amazing time at the 8th Annual Guerrilla Truck Show on Tuesday, a one-night design extravaganza on Fulton Market that brings the entire Chicago design community together. Local designers retro-fit truck beds into galleries, installations, and statement pieces that represent their work. Morlen Sinoway, the host and organizer of the Show, asked us to do a window display in his Shop/Atelier. We were honored, and thought it was the best spot on the street!

Meeting with Morlen Sinoway
The window he gave us to use
Working out the measurements
Choosing color combinations

 

Arranging the direction of the triangles at Sergio's Studio
We thought the varying direction of the stripes brought a nice dimension
Electric Blue side
And the Sailor Charcoal side that will be visible from the inside of the shop
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We chose yellow to play off the stunning tiling outside
Unison pillows sit on a Missoni couch inside the shop
We love the army truck parked out front
The show begins. Inside view.
DJ Friar Tuck posted right out front. Great placement, right?
We were next door to a fantastic INDO window display
There was a great crowd
And food trucks galore!
And the night ended with a flame thrower!

Thanks again to Morlen Sinoway Atelier, who did a fantastic job bringing Chicago’s design community together for an inspiring and energetic event! Our installation will be up for the next week. Located at 1052 West Fulton Market. Be sure to come to next year’s show!