Tim Samuelson initially discovered the apartment complex—a modernist skyscraper in Hyde Park with sweeping views of Lake Michigan—the way he learns about most things: by reading about it.
Barbara is Barbara Koenen, an artist, budding arts entrepreneur, and recently retired city employee who for years facilitated a range of artist-centered events and initiatives for the Department of Cultural Affairs. She and Samuelson married in 2000, and she moved into his Promontory condo, bringing her own, more maximalist design sensibility. She’s not someone compelled to line up the furniture just so.
