Two days ago, we met up for lunch and the opportunity to discuss the mundane side of the business: Accounting.
After crunching numbers and nerding-out for a couple of hours, I decided to take her a mile away, into Riverside, Illinois - a great suburb of Chicago - to a restaurant that I've been to several times before.
Riverside is a small, wonderful enclave of superb architecture and landscaping. Riverside is arguably one of the first planned communities in the United States, designed in 1869 by Frederick Law Olmstead - the man responsible for the planning and layout of Central Park in NYC, and most of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
As we were walking down the street, we came across Higgins Glass Studio. Apparently in Riverside for the last 60 years, Higgins had an amazing collection of decorative and functional, hand-blown, hand-pieced glass.
We both stopped in our tracks when we saw a collection of brightly colored Rondelays, in circles and squares, hanging in their window. Each glass piece linked to the ones around it with a copper fastener. The result was a beautiful and fun, drape / partition / wall art piece, each one-of-a-kind.
Each Rondelay was sold individually, so you could purchase as few or as many as you need. We both fell in love with the idea of using these in an entry window, kitchen window, or anywhere that privacy isn't an absolute necessity.
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