If she moved to Chicago, Penelope Hobhouse wouldn't change her designing ways all that much.
Principles are principles, after all.
Hobhouse, the well-known English garden designer and author, was here earlier this spring speaking to the Arts Club of Chicago and giving one of the 2001 Zimmerman lectures at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe. A few days before, she had been attending the Philadelphia Flower Show where her exhibit had won a top prize. It doesn't have to be sexual. He's the hot New York designer behind that perky pink couch, which curls around on both sides and allows an ottoman to snap into its center, turning the whole thing into a medium for horizontality. My mother has a Tiffany lamp that she acquired about 30 years ago when the local high school was cleaning out props used in their theatrical productions.