Heavenly Virtu Bucktown's virtu sells haute craft by becoming craft itself. You might see the genre as the macaroni Christmas trees you made for mom back in the grade a chintzy, ham-handed production that doesn t quite make it as art. As the newest boutique on Damen Avenue, virtu specializes in the handcrafted expertise that transforms the prosaic into the poetic and ordinary materials into sublime objects, with a concentration on furnishing the compact quarters of city living.
Virtu bills itself as smaller accessories for smaller dwellings.
That s one definition, anyway. What can virtu offer that isn t readily available within a block or two. Virtu s grace is that it s not a store at all. In essence it is really a grand example of its wares - a craft, writ large. It is an artistic installation full of aesthetic objects.