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Swing Into the New Year at Chicago's Hotel Palomar

Filed under: Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels

If there's any time of year that can bring on a yearning for nostalgia, it's this one. But not everyone wants to take a step back into their own past at the holidays -- sometimes it's just more fun to go back even further, like into another era.

So how do the 1940s grab you? In Chicago, Sable Kitchen & Bar at the Hotel Palomar is hosting Zoot! New
Years Eve 2011. It's an homage to the era of Swing...and not, of course, to all the other horrendous things that happened worldwide in the 1940s...but this is no time for glum thoughts, just dig out your best vintage to rock out to a nine-piece swing band "The Pin Ups", bottomless champagne bar all night long, unlimited small plates from 8 to 11 pm (if they're serving their truffled deviled eggs you'll definitely want to forget all about your waistline), unlimited dessert from 11 pm to 1 am, and all the other usual trimmings of the New Year's Eve gala. Cost: $125 per person, including tax and gratuity.

It'd totally break the spell to drive anywhere in your modern wheels, and so if you and your main queen (or king) crash at the hotel that night, you get two tickets to the party and the room for $419. Just don't get startled out of your nostalgic reverie by the instant-dryer in the hotel's jacuzzi tubs -- they do click on without much warning.

Better still is to go elite, and reserve the VIP Sable Swing Lounge for the 'NYE Anti-Prix Fixe' Dinner. You and your closest nine friends get to create your own dinner menu in a private dining room. The tab: $250 per person.

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Marcel Wanders Swing

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Filed under: Decor

Marcel Wanders is at it again with a playful creation with Droog Design. The seat of this swing can be filled with soil and seeds planted inside. It is designed so that vines will grow up the ropes. The swing is made of polyethylene with a nylon rope and comes in white, black or green. It can be used indoors or outside but will cost you more than a rope and a board, it sells for $550.

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Horchow Swing with Stand

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It will not arrive in time for Easter, but Horchow's egg-shaped Swing on a Stand is a very comfortable piece to add to your yard this summer if you like spending time outdoors, enjoying the weather and relaxing. The chair is made of elegant, scrolling wrought iron and heavily cushioned with red, weather-resistant cushions from Sunbrella. It is perfect for curling up in with a good book, but a coordinating ottoman ($330) is available if you would rather stretch out. The fact that it's suspended means that you will be able to drift slightly in the breeze - without the risk of getting tangled in strings as you might in a hammock. Of course, also unlike a hammock, with the heavy-duty stand supporting the chair, you don't need a pair of trees the appropriate distance apart to enjoy it. Chair with cushions: $824.

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Tags: chair, cusions, egg, egg chair, furniture, hammock, horchow, iron, outdoor, sunbrella, swing, yard