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Whether quirky, cool, or perfectly polished, the city's chicest couples put their own
stamp on Chicago style.
BY MEG MATHIS PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOWEN ROSS
"I love having things that others had before me," says Ogilvy & Mather creative
director and partner Tereasa Surratt, who on a recent balmy Friday afternoon is
wearing a vintage coin-print Lanvin dress, a 1961 men's Rolex, and a ring that
once belonged to husband David Hernandez's grandfather. "Everything's got a
story, and that's what I enjoy about style in general: You get to tell your own per-
sonal story, and then someone else's, like this dress." Hernandez, executive
creative director for Ogilvy & Mather, chimes in: "We both like saving old
things—whether cars, or motorcycles, or buildings, or clothes."
A prime example of the couple's salvaging philosophy is Camp Wandawega,
the Prohibition-era oasis they purchased in 2003. Although weekdays find them
in their West Town home, weekends see Surratt and Hernandez at the Elkhorn,
Wisconsin
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based retreat they have worked to restore to its former glory. "We
chose the period of 1925 to about 1960 to use as a decorating look and feel," says
Surratt, who decorated the camp in her signature masculine style—think plaid
tablecloths, taxidermy, and chandeliers crafted from antlers. "If you go to any
home that's been in a family for a very long time, you see all the layers of dif-
ferent generations," adds Surratt, whose husband of 10 years appreciates how
that observation echoes her personal style. "What's the wedding expression,
'Something old, something blue?'" says Hernandez, laughing. "Tereasa is 'some-
thing old, something old, something borrowed, and something old.'"
T H E S T O R Y T E L L E R S
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN TO CAMP WANDAWEGA CAPTAINS TEREASA SURRATT AND DAVID HERNANDEZ.
