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Nomadic Furniture - How to Build and Where to Buy Lightweight Furniture that Folds, Inflates, Knocks Down, Stacks, Or is Disposable and Can Be Recycled

Pantheon Books/A Division of Random House - Size: 8 3/4 x 11 1/4" with 150 pgs. Many easy to follow illustrations. This book is the first to catalog all the easily avaible designs, and to offer new ideas for compact, flexible, and forthright equipment for homes, apartments, students dorms. It shows people who have no previousknowledge of design or building how to make furnishings which are foldable, inflatable, or stackable and which they can discard later without being ecolgically irresponsible. The book begins with consideration of human measurements and needs: How all should the table be, for easiest use? What size chair makes people most comforable? Victor Papanek is a UNESCO International Design Expert who practices the kind of living in which Nomadic Furniture is needed. James Hennessey is an industrial designer who earned hi Bachlelor of Science degree at the Illinois Insitute of Technology Institute of Design.

Searching for Mark Beaubien

Chicago's first Tavern owner.


Beaubien, Mark (1800-Apr. 11, 1881) born in Detroit, younger brother of [see] Jean Baptiste; married Monique Nadeau (1800-1847), with whom he had 16 children, 14 of whom survived their mother; then married Elizabeth Mathieu, with whom he had seven. Mark came to Chicago in 1826 with Monique and children, among them [see] Emily, and purchased a small log cabin on the south bank near the Forks from James Kinzie; in 1829 he began to take in guests, calling his cabin the "Eagle Exchange Tavern." A fun-loving fiddle player, he loved to entertain his guests at night, tempting one to believe stories about his knack for boyish mischief [see following excerpts from Hurlbut]; was licensed to keep a tavern on June 9, 1830; later voted on August 2; when the town plat was published that year, he found that his business was in the middle of a street and moved the structure to the SE corner of Market and Lake streets. He purchased from the government in 1830 lots 3 and 4 in block 31 on which his building stood, as well as the small block 30, later selling part of the land to Charles A. Ballard [see Maps, 1834, John S. Wright]. In 1831 he built on a two-story frame house and called the structure the "Sauganash Hotel" in honor of his friend Billy Caldwell, whose Indian name was Sauganash; on June 6 that year, at the new county seat (Chicago), was granted a license to sell goods in Cook County In the late summer of 1832, he rented his original log cabin, adjacent to his tavern, to newly arrived Philo Carpenter for use as - Chicago`s 1st - drugstore; an ardent enemy of alcohol, Carpenter soon moved out. Mark next let the space to John S. Wright, and in 1833, the cabin became a school under Eliza Chappel`s direction. Early in August 1833, Mark was one of the "Qualified Electors" who voted to incorporate the town [for a copy of that meeting`s original report, see incorporation] and on August 10 voted in the first town election. He received $500 in payment for a claim at the Chicago Treaty of September 1833. Mark became the first licensed ferry owner, and in 1834 he built his second hotel, the "Exchange Coffee House," at the NW corner of Lake and Wells streets; placed an ad in the Dec. 21, 1835, Chicago Democrat that read: "I Mark Beaubien, do agree to pay 25 bushels of Oats if any man will agree to pay me the same number of bushels if I win against any man`s horse or mare in the town of Chicago, against Maj. R.A. Forsyth`s bay mare, Now in Town for three miles on the ice"; 1839 City Directory: hotel-keeper, Lake Street. In 1840, Mark removed to Lisle with his family where he acquired farmland from William Sweet S of Sweet`s Grove and also a cabin located immediately W of the [see] Beaubien Cemetery; the cabin soon became a tavern, while yet home to the residing family. Mark is also listed in the 1843 City Directory: U.-S. light-house keeper, res River street. From 1851 to 1857 he used the building as a toll station for the Southwest Plank Road, with his son collecting the toll; the structure, built in the 1830s, still exists though moved [see Monuments]. Later, during 1859 and 1860, he was again the lighthouse keeper in Chicago. His address in 1878 was Newark, Kendall County. During the last 10 years of his life, he was troubled by failing memory, much to his chagrin because he loved to tell stories of the past; he was happiest in the company of old friends. Mark died on April 11, 1881, in the home of his daughter Mary [born Sept. 30, 1848] and son-in-law, Georges Mathieu, at Kankakee and was buried with his second wife in St. Rose Cemetery, the oldest portion of Mound Grove. His fiddle is preserved at the Chicago History Museum. One of his sons, Napoleon, known as "Monkey," was a close childhood friend of Edwin O. Gale; another son Mark, Jr., lived in Chicago well into the 20th century; street name: Beaubien Court (120 E from 150 N to 186 N), a short street in present downtown Chicago, named after Mark and Jean Baptiste Beaubien who together fathered 42 children with their Indian, French and English wives, vitally contributing to the population explosion of early Chicago. [42, 131a, 160, 357, 266, 429]
[Chicago Antiquities, p.332] ...We have read a statement in Smith`s History of Wisconsin to the purport that Col. Wm. J. Hamilton passed through Chicago in June, 1825 [if true, it must have been 1826; eds.], with a drove of some 700 head of cattle, procured in southern Illinois, which he had contracted to the government, for the use of the post at Green Bay. A brother of Colonel Beaubien, it is stated, assisted in getting the cattle across the Chicago River, but in rendering that service, managed to drown one of them purposely; so Beaubien told Hamilton some years afterward. He did it, he said, in order to buy the animal, knowing that he could not purchase it any other way, and he very greatly needed the beef.

"If I could find a real life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then...then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!"
~ Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Our new custom bookshelves. The house has come a long way since that one Christmas I came back to find John living with nothing but a TV and a mattress.

(Glasgow, 2011)