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"Discoveries by Designers\nChicago is our focus as AD editors present designers&amp;#39; sources for furniture, accessories and art.\nUsed in a way entirely different from their intended function, hundreds of humble matchsticks make up a circa 1960 model of a Fender guitar, $3,700, at Urban Totem\\n\\n (www.urbantotem.com; 847-733-7507) in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago.\nIn Chicago, Rita Bucheit (www.ritabucheit.com; 312-527-4080) has a sextet of circa 1906 designs for playing cards, $15,000, by Carl Otto Czeschka, a Vienna Secession member, whose work ranged from stage sets to book illustrations to interiors.\nArts 220 (www.arts220.com; 847-501-3084), of Winnetka, Illinois, has a circa 1950 lidded box, $7,500, in sterling silver with gold, by William Spratling, the American designer credited with developing the silversmithing industry of Taxco, Mexico.\nBold and graphic, a rug, $7,500, was designed by Stanley Tigerman for a Chicago house and made by Edward Fields. It can be found at Modern Times (www.moderntimes.com; 312-243-5706) in Chicago.\nChicago&amp;#39;s Architectural Artifacts (www.architecturalartifacts.com; 773-348-0622) is a repository for the rare and intriguing. One such item is an American figural folk art table, $3,600. It&amp;#39;s made of bottle caps and buttons.\nA set of six Empire chairs, $21,000, with eglomise inserts, shares the floor with similarly bold contemporary items at Branca (www.branca.com; 312-787-1017), a recent addition to Chicago&amp;#39;s thriving antiques and design scene.\nGerman artist Ludwig Hohlwein was known for both his technical innovations and visual sensibilities. Century Guild (www.centuryguild.net; 800-610-2368) in Chicago has a 1926 example of his ouevre\u2014a poster, $900, for Daimler&amp;#39;s Mercedes.\nTwo Lady Liberty-form terra-cotta heads, $12,000, at The Finnegan Gallery (www.finnegangallery.com; 773-244-1761) in Chicago are from the 1920s and were at the roofline of one of the city&amp;#39;s buildings, which has since been demolished.\nLusenhop Fine Art (www.lusenhopfineart.com; 312-322-2440) in Chicago has a circa 1920 printed-tin candy box, $300, by artist and designer Winold Reiss for the Baumgarten company in an Iznik style meant to resemble cloisonn\u00E9.\nAn Art D\u00E9co-style\\n\\n cityscape graces a 1970s American three-panel wood screen, $3,250, at\\n\\n Chicago&amp;#39;s Assemblage (www.assemblageltd.com; 312-234-9200). The fanciful urban skyline is rendered in gold, silver and black lacquer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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