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Gold Coast


A real beauty, this Lakeside clothing and home-wares shop is the seasonal idyll of a Chicago-based professor of visual merchandising. Beyond a tidy picket fence and lush front garden, the cottage is laid out with textiles and baskets, earthy ceramics, and minimalist baubles and dresses from indie designers.


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