Gary Lee, Not Sara Lee

The new bakery will train the homeless and the disabled to prepare the bakery's scrumptious treats.

Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 3/1/2009

This rendering shows the oak paneling and secondhand blackboards at Sweet Miss Givings.

Gary Lee Partners knows a thing or two about treats—and treating people right. Designed pro bono, the firm’s Sweet Miss Givings, a bakery with a green design and a higher purpose, opens in this fall in a 1,500-square-foot Chicago storefront outfitted with secondhand classroom blackboards, vintage pendant fixtures, and paneling and benches made from local fallen oak trees. The bakery will train the homeless and the disabled to chop, mix, and bake scrumptious scones, cupcakes, and the like to be sold on the premises and wholesaled at sweetmissgivings.com. Half the proceeds will go to Chicago House, a nonprofit provider of housing and support for people with HIV and AIDS.


The new bakery will train the homeless and the disabled to prepare the bakery's scrumptious treats.

Renderings courtesy of Gary Lee Partners.