CBB News 11/19/08

5th Annual Holiday Party
Sunday, December 14, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
FREE to members (in good standing)

Bring your favorite fabulous party food*.
Vintage recipes and dishware are suggested.

Dress in Mid-Century Mod attire, or fabulous contemporary party attire
Everyone must RSVP and let us know what you are bringing so we can plan a great menu!

To be held at a member's 1958 Dennis Blair home in Long Grove

This beautiful mid-century modern home, designed by Dennis Blair, will be the setting for our fabulous Holiday Party. The home was built in a small subdivision of all Dennis Blair homes, in a beautiful wooded area of Long Grove, including Mr. Blair's own first home. The post and beam design includes wood, stone and glass in a beautiful pavillion design.

Dennis Blair apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright, and worked on the Guggenheim Museum model. Best known for his design of Adlai Stevenson High School in Libertyville, Blair designed dozens of modernist homes around the North Shore. In the early 1950's he was recognized as an "architect to watch" by Architectural Record magazine. CBB visited his current home on the Barrington tour in August of 2007.

*Please do not bring anything that needs to be cooked or heated at the party. We will have several hot trays available, or bring a food in a crock pot, fondue or chafing dish.

Address and directions will be provided to those who RSVP. Please RSVP to this email with names of attendees (members only) and what you will be bringing.

Open to members in good standing, and one guest each.

Let us know if you will bring an appetizer, main course, dessert, or drink. If you don't like to cook, bring wine, soft drinks or martini supplies!

Another success story:
CBB Member Mathew Nordloh, who owns the beautiful Paul Schweikher home with a Keck addition that we visited in Glen Ellyn last year, has gotten the home listed on the National Register of Historical Places.

After our tour of the home, Mathew wrote to me: "The tour we had back in November of '07 at my home celebrating its nomination to the National Registry of Historic Landmarks was one of my most cherished memories of the whole process of saving the home. The group seemed to really appreciate the uniqueness. Since then I have mostly sat back and simply enjoyed living in the home. Good architecture is a really wonderful thing. The trails and tribulations have long faded away."

Click HERE to watch a video about the home.