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Showcase: Home Tour (May/June 2006)

Each spring, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine lures lovers of beautiful homes to the annual American Society of Interior Designers Showcase Home Tour. We supply tour guests with a ballot and ask them to tell us what they loved about the home - this year a 12,000 square-foot historic Tudar Revival on Lake Minnetonka.  read more

Mpls-St.Paul: Hipster Handbook (February 2006)

So are we cool, or what? Let's get this out of the way; We are not cool. Mpls. St. Paul Magazine is not cool. And you're probably not cool either. Not that we care. Of course we don't. We're serious hard-working, practical Midwesterners who scoff at the seconds wasted during the self-conscious calculation that determines whether something is cool or not.  read more

Mpls-St.Paul: Addicted to Art (September 2005)

After driving in from hectic downtown Minneapolis and sitting down for coffee with Constance Mayeron Cowles and Charlie Fuller Cowles, you can see why they abandon urban living. On a sunny morning at their home in Fraconis Township near Taylors Falls, you can see a long stretch of grass and trees and the air is fresh and clean.  read more

Midwest Home & Garden: Emerging Talent (February 2005)

Joan Hoffman Bergland. Midwest Home & Garden and ASID Annually recognize a promising talent who has spent 10 years or less as an interior designer The 2004 winner, Joan Hoffman Bergland, has spent her entire meteoric design career with Ramsey Engler in Minneapolis.  read more

Window Fashions: Designers Set Sail (June 2004)

When salaries plump, nothing is more tempting to buy than floating digs. And lucky for us, clients need a little help revamping their nautical headquarters. "People are using their boats as second homes," says Katie Bradford, founder of the 19 year old Custom Marine Canvas, "And they're decorating them accordingly."  read more

Gold Standard: Anson Bell (2003)

Dawn in Nantucket. A thick fog has settled on the harbor, cloaking the anchored yachts and workboats in a blue-gray shroud. Along the wharf, gas streetlamps appear as fireflies, hovering above the brick sidewalks, their soft glow reflected off cobblestones polished smooth by countless leather soles, wagon wheels and tires.  read more