From the Chicago Tribune:
READ IT: For those in the market for an architect/firm who can design them a multimillion-dollar estate that photographs beautifully, we have the book (or should we say catalog?) for you. Hot off the presses: "Dream Homes Chicago," the 11th tome in the "Dream Homes" series (all of the books specific to a certain city or part of the country) from Dallas-based publisher Panache Partners, which has turned luxury-home publishing into something of a formula.
The Chicago "Dream" (256 pages, $34.95) follows the format of lush, colorful coffee-table book. Some 46 Chicago area architects/firms (among them: Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker; Paul Florian; James Nagle and John Hartray Jr.; Margaret McCurry and Stanley Tigerman) strut their most chichi residential projects and get the salient details about themselves out there to the public. (The text talks about the architect/firm, not the house that's shown.) And yes (if you were wondering), architects do pay a "small participation fee" to the tune of $1,000 a page to be included in the book, according to a spokeswoman for Panache, who also notes, though, that the final selection of entrants is juried by editors.
Palatial manors on the North Shore, graystones and brownstones from Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast, assorted suburban mansions, some built from the ground up, others being large-scale additions -- not a genre of Huge House is left unturned.
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