Sourcing for your home and the people you love — in Chicago, and from anywhere.
Styling is half of what I do. The other half is finding things.
Years of working Chicago's estate sales and vintage shops means I know where the extraordinary pieces surface, and how to recognize them before they're gone. For years that's meant clothing. It also means everything else: the small original painting for a wall that's been bare too long, the brass bookends with some weight and history to them, the gift for the daughter or the old friend who has taste and nothing she needs.
This is not a shopping trip. It's sourcing. You tell me what you're looking for — or just the feeling you're after — and I go and find it.
For your home
For the people you love
How it works
What it costs
A house fills up with things over the years. Not all of them were chosen. Somewhere along the way you stopped buying for the home you actually live in and started buying what was available, what was on sale, what filled the gap.
This is the opposite of that.
Whether it's one piece for a specific corner or a slow, considered search for something you've pictured but never found, I source the way I'd source for myself — for character, for quality, for the small surprise of an object with a story. A piece of original art. A vintage lamp with real brass and real age. Ceramics, textiles, a mirror with the right patina. The kind of thing you can't search for online, because the whole point is that there's only one of it.
You don't need to know exactly what you want. Often the brief is a feeling — warmer, less matchy, something with some soul — and the finding is my job.
There is a particular kind of person who is impossible to buy for. They have taste. They have everything they need. A gift card feels like a small surrender, and anything off a shelf feels like it could have been for anyone.
That's the gift I'm best at finding.
Tell me who they are — the friend of forty years, the son or daughter with the sharp eye, the person who taught you everything you know — and I'll find the one-of-a-kind thing that says I saw this and thought entirely of you. A petite original painting. A piece of vintage jewellery. A first edition, a hand-thrown bowl, a silk scarf with a history, a watch that has kept time for someone before. Something that could only have been chosen by someone who was paying attention.
The best gifts aren't expensive. They're specific. That's the whole craft.
You tell me what you're after. A specific object, a room that needs something, a person you're buying for. Detail helps, but a feeling is enough to start.
I go and find it. In Chicago, that means the estate sales, vintage shops, and dealers I know by name. From anywhere, it means the same eye applied to the trusted online and resale markets I've spent years learning. Distance is not a limit — the search is the same.
You see it before you commit. I send you what I've found, with photos and the story of where it came from. Nothing is a surprise you didn't ask for.
Sourcing is priced by the search, not by the hour — you're paying for the find, not the time it takes me to find it.
Sourcing starts at $95 per find — whether you're after one specific thing or a few.
The cost of the item itself is separate and always yours to approve before anything is purchased. No mark-up on what I find — you pay what it costs, plus the sourcing fee. That's the whole arrangement, and it's the same whether the piece is forty dollars or four hundred.
Chicago sourcing may include a small travel charge beyond the city, confirmed when we scope your search.
Tell me what you're looking for.
The best things are rarely found by searching. They're found by someone who knows where to look — and who's actually looking.