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This Weekend, Winnetka's famed Antiques and Modernism Show returns November 6, 20143:36 PM MST

Two "modernism" chairs from Elliott and Elliott Art and Antiques, Harbor Springs, MI Elliott and Elliott

Call it retro but your parents’ and grandparents’ mid 20th furniture and jewelry are “in.” Also in style are pottery, porcelain, pictures and pearls that date back a couple of centuries.

So, whether adding to a collection or curious about what some of the items handed down are worth, the place to go this weekend is the Antiques and Modernism Winnetka Show.

Expect to see European and American antiques and collectibles. Also look for Art Deco and Art Nouveau items.

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‘Pretty and Proper’ author poised to engage Winnetka showgoers■ by katie rose mceneely

Holly Holden, a designer and the author of “The Pretty and Proper Living Room,” is speaking at this year’s Antiques + Modernism show in winnetka on nov. 8.

Reading: I just bought the book “The Hotel on Place Vendome” by Tilar J. Mazzeo. I normally do enjoy reading about architec-tural history and interior design, especially the kind I admire.

nancy Lancaster — a designer that I admire and respect — was a Virginian, and she ended up marrying into British aristocracy and designing four different houses (she had four different husbands). she went on to own [the British decorating firm] Colefax & Fowler. What she did, and what I try to do, is make rooms look evolved and not designed, so they’re very inviting and comfortable — formal, but unpreten-tious. I create rooms with no velvet ropes.

Listening: I usually listen to Bach or Chopin or Debussy.

Watching: “Downton Abbey”! It’s defi-nitely my genre of design. I’m in the process of working to create a PBs program about my book, so PBs is up in the top, as far as I’m concerned.

Following: I like to follow the art world, and I’m a big advocate of auctions. I pur-chase the majority of accessories and fur-niture and art for my clients at auction. I follow them through a publication called

“Arts and Antiques,” referred to also as “the Bee.”

Activity: The women’s Board of the winnetka Community House Antiques + Modernism show found me, I believe, through a lovely blog called Frances schultz. She reviewed my book, and Kristin Shea, who is working on the committee for the show, contacted me, and we decided it would be a very good match. I was delighted when they invited me to speak. “Inherited Style” is the name of my talk — a lecture and tea at 2 p.m. on nov. 8.

I’m looking forward to meeting all these board members! They seem so delightful and engaged at the Community House, so I’m really looking forward to meeting new people.

I’m also working on the next book in a series — “Pretty and Proper Palm Beach.” I think it’s due probably the end of next year — it’s very exciting! It’s a little different than new england.

Eating: we travel non-stop, so I’m always trying new foods. we’re going to Paris in november, and we love French food. On a daily basis: yogurt. since it’s starting to become fall, I’ve been making soup.

What is your favorite mistake? My biggest mistake was not writing this

book “The Pretty and Proper Living Room” earlier. I really enjoyed doing it. I wrote it for my daughter, who was moving to Germany. she was married in Berlin and as she was

packing up, she said, “Mummy, you’ve always done my interior design — could you just write some notes?” I started writing some notes and collecting pictures and eventually I had to get an editor. I gave it to her three years later! She had such good questions.

As a professional you take some ter-minology for granted. I had so much fun because she would ask the questions that I wanted to answer, and it made for a very

easy, approachable design book. I call the style “Inherited Design” because most of the things are a secret code passed down to mothers and daughters through genera-tions. It kept me very tempered and focused.

For more information on Holden’s interior design, visit prettyandproper.com. For more information on the Antiques + Modernism Show, visit thewinnetkashow.com or call 847-446-0537. ■

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Celebrate Style + Design at Antiques + Modernism Winnetka No matter your age or interests, we all love the element of surprise.

You know that feeling of exhilaration when you stumble across something you were not expecting to find? There’s nothing better. From Nov. 7 to 9, the fifth annual Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show and its signature Benefit Preview Party return to the historic Winnetka Community House, welcoming a variety of esteemed dealers who are sure to surprise you.

Offering a variety of furniture, lighting, garden antiques, fine and folk art, jewelry, silver, rugs, ceramics, textiles, and much more, the Show continually brings together an array of objects to decorate your walls, your halls—or yourself. Esteemed dealers from across the country will showcase fine examples of American, European, and Asian antiques, as well as pieces from the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Mid-Century design movements, ranging from the 17th century to the mid-20th century.

“The beauty of the Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show is that whatever your style, there is something for everyone’s taste and budget,” said Chair of this year’s Show and Winnetka Community House Woman’s Board Member, Amy Swartchild. “Each year, the country’s finest dealers return to Winnetka to exhibit and sell at this one-of-a-kind event. It has become an indispensable event for collectors, treasure hunters, interior designers and lovers of design from across the Midwest.”

In addition to offering antiques for sale, several of the industry’s top designers and dealers are set to take the stage at this year’s Show and share their expertise. On Friday, Nov. 7, the VIP Brunch, a favorite amongst designers and realtors, presents one of North Shore’s very own stars, Julia

Buckingham of Buckingham Interiors. As a former antiques dealer, Julia’s passion for antiques, artifacts and found objects translates into beautiful modern homes with a timeless quality that is relevant to how families live today. Julia will share her “Modernique” approach to artfully blending styles and periods to create truly special rooms.

If your Saturday mornings are filled with kids’ activities, then make time instead to attend the afternoon tea at the Show. Holly Holden, interior designer and author of "The Pretty and Proper Living Room," joins the event line-up all the way from Connecticut, for an afternoon tea. Guests will learn how to crack the code and speak the secret language of old-school interior design as Holly demonstrates her belief that “Classic design, like manners, never goes out of style.”

Cap off the weekend by attending the Sunday afternoon presentation inspired by royals, races and the runway! Winnetka Historical Society Costume Curator Ellie Carlson and Cindy Rourke, head buyer and stylist of renowned local women's boutique neopolitan collection, will showcase hat couture, highlighting trends that have endured.

With so much shopping and learning, it seems impossible to imagine anything better about the Show—but there is one additional and very important aspect to it. All proceeds support the programs and services of the Winnetka Community House, a nonprofit organization that is dependent on a broad base of community support for its existence. Attend the Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show and you will truly be shopping for a cause.

For more information on this year’s Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show, visitthewinnetkashow.com, or call 847-446-0537.

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As we sit down for brunch, Julia Buckingham has a confession to make: She hates sitting (and she’s not much of a foodie either).

And the restaurant, Convito Café in Wilmette — one she regularly fre-quents—doesn’t have her favorite menu item: a cinque formaggio grilled cheese. Instead, the interior designer, business owner, and inventor of the trademarked Modernique style orders a margherita panini and an Arnold Palmer. As we wait for our food to arrive amidst the loquacious lunch crowd, Buckingham philosophizes that maybe only one of your senses can be overly sophisticated. For her, it’s not the palate.

“Unfortunately my husband, who likes to cook, bears the brunt of that,” she says. But that doesn’t mean she lacks taste — especially when it comes to designing a room or home. Once a self-described soccer mom, Buckingham is now known as the mother of Modernique.

“It’s a real fusion of antiques, vintage, and modern,” she explains. “The Antiques and Modernism Show [in Winnetka] is the epitome of it.”

Buckingham — who will be the guest speaker at the show’s VIP brunch on Friday, Nov. 7 — is also the spokesperson for her own design aesthetic that was once fringe but has been steadily gaining more and more exposure and now could be considered (dare I say?) trending.

So an inherited dining table (“Something, say, that once belonged to your grandmother that you absolutely love and hate equally”) to her trained eye can become a white lacquered, high sheen, French country table. The idea that you can give something life by repurposing it is a central premise of Modernique. And, be it an individual piece or accessories that make up a room, “the mixing of those things doesn’t have to be complementary to the same genre or century.”

She admits that at first many people were confused by it. This is not traditional design, per se. But she couldn’t change the way she saw things.

Now, whenever she opens a magazine she sees a blending of the old and the new everywhere.

“There’s a hesitation to do something that’s maybe different than the way you were raised or the way your parents introduced you to design,” says Buckingham. “It’s really about the idea that there aren’t any rules anymore.”

Buckingham might be the best example of this inner renewal. Only seven years ago, the Chicago-based interior designer — who just inked a licensing deal with the home furnishing company Global Views — repurposed herself. Though her mother had dragged her to estate sales up and down the North Shore as a little girl, she didn’t act on her love of design until her youngest child was in high school. She vividly remembers

walking into the Merchandise Mart and not knowing what the process was to get a sample of fabric.

Her Buckingham Interiors and Design company now has more than 10 employees working on over 40 projects in Chicago, the North Shore, and around the country — and as the lead designer she oversees everything, down to the smallest detail. She regularly travels with her partnerships with Cosentino (a Spain-based company specializing in quartz counter-tops), Traditional Home magazine, and what might be the most influential book club in the world of interior design.

It was at one of these recent get-togethers that this book club of 12 designers enjoyed a casual breakfast with Kate Kelly Smith, senior vice president and publishing director at Hearst Design Group, to dissect Arianna Huffington’s new book, “Thrive.”

“[Kate] asked me, ‘Julia what is the first thing you do in the morning?’” Buckingham’s candid response: “Check my phone,” she says, laughing. “Sometimes it’s even at three in the morn-ing. There’s just a constant influx.”

Of course, Buckingham’s reply was antithetical to Huffington’s message of unplugging, unwinding, and disconnecting from

work, “but everybody in the group knew that’s exactly how I am,” she says. And no way is her intimate relationship with

Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram going to stop, either. But there is one thing she is skeptical about: blogging.

Though she says blogging changed her life in terms of national exposure, a part of Buckingham feels that wave of pseudo-experts has crested, which has a lot to do with an oversaturation of the market.

“I’m not exactly sure how important it is anymore,” she says, though the blog that she still maintains with a sampling of interior designers from around the country, Material Girls, has been named one of the best national ones by House Beautiful magazine.

Before blogging, in her first year at the University of Arizona, Buckingham and a group of girls were getting a friend ready for a date. To the surprise of the man who came to the dormitory looking for his date (and finding in

her wake a clutch of curious girls), he instantly recognized a blonde-haired woman in the group from growing up with her on the North Shore. That man is now Buckingham’s husband of 28 years, John.

In their Victorian home on Sheridan Road in Winnetka, an 11-foot tall, zinc profile from a building façade in New York City hangs with authority in the foyer. Talk about true love. ■

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