Recycled Modern Opens ‘Flagship’ Store In Harper Court, Bringing Home Decor And Rising Artists To Hyde Park

HYDE PARK — A classic furniture, art gallery and occasion area is now open in Hyde Park’s Harper Courtroom as its proprietor aims to create the store as a heart for creatives on the South Aspect.

Recycled Modern day, 5231 S. Harper Court, sells refinished home furniture, property décor, art and accessories chosen by operator Shari Currie, a Kenwood resident.

Currie sells objects she personally connects with, this kind of as a white couch painted with a repeating Black Lives Make any difference sample, handstitched pillows from Reformed School and functions by creatives these kinds of as photographer Clifton Henri, artist Jamie Cooper and painter Anthony Olusina, she said.

“I want you to have that encounter of walking into your household,” Currie reported. “I want you to consider these pieces into your residence, glance at it and say, ‘Hey, I got that from Recycled Contemporary.’”

The Hyde Park store is open noon-6:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday and midday-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. It’s appointment-only Tuesdays.

A prosperous very first yr in Hyde Park would contain “everybody owning a piece of art or home furniture from this space,” Currie stated.

Recycled Present day will also host frequent occasions, such as the store’s tender opening Nov. 5, all through which visitors could fee “Ugly Portraits” by the artist EWRKS and audio by DJ Zaza.

“I’m bringing this entire shopping knowledge exactly where you feel at house and you never want to go away you have a cocktail and mimosa and you are vibing with neighborhood and the artists in a different variety of way,” Currie claimed. “It’s substantial for Recycled Present day and quite vital.”

The store will host a getaway artwork sale 1:30-5 p.m. Saturday, which serves as an afterparty of kinds for the Hyde Park Holly-Day competition, Currie reported. EWRKS will return for commissioned portraits at the party.

“It’s always artists in below, and it’s usually a good vibe,” Currie reported of Saturday’s function.

Credit score: Maxwell Evans/Block Club Chicago

Credit score: Maxwell Evans/Block Club Chicago

The Hyde Park shop is Recycled Modern’s next area. Currie opened her very first keep in 2018 at 1152 W. Diversey Parkway in Lakeview.

The company’s thought stems from Currie’s like of vintage buying, which she found out through a “process of grief” as she healed traumas from increasing up on the South Side, she mentioned.

“I really did not like thrifting when I was young, for the reason that it was a need to have — it wasn’t entertaining, it was a lot more so out of necessity,” Currie stated. “It was this transition of grieving how I grew up in Englewood and not definitely appreciating the neighborhood like I wished to.”

Even as Currie grew to value thrifting, Chicago lacked classic suppliers wherever “I felt like I was at house,” she mentioned. With the assistance of a mentor, she labored to fill that gap by providing at pop-ups throughout Chicago before opening the Lakeview brick-and-mortar.

A person this sort of cease was at the Hyde Park Flea current market in Harper Courtroom in 2018, where Currie offered from a booth instantly in front of the keep she’d shift into several many years later.

The Harper Court docket store “was available, so I noticed it and I’m like, I can not not get it,” Currie claimed. “It was variety of divine — I was outside the front of this house when I started.”

The South Aspect retailer usually takes more than for the Lakeview area as the company’s flagship for household decor and furnishings, Currie claimed. She designs to keep on a gradual process of turning the North Side store into an artwork gallery with a small, devoted area for home furniture, she stated.

The Lakeview retail store “will seem a good deal different than what this property base, flagship store [in Hyde Park] appears to be like like — it is certainly gallery-focused,” Currie explained.

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