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For our second annual Home Tours, we asked six couples to
give us a peek inside their very cool residence.
September 2005
Home is where high-profile families make a retreat, where
chic penthouse owners dwell. It’s an ultra-retro rambler, or an artsy rural
escape. For our second annual Home Tours, we asked six couples to give us a peek
inside their very cool residence. Each was selected for its distinctive
interiors, geographic location, and reflection of personal style.
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For the two artists—Fuller is a sculptor and Connee a
ceramist—the open space at
their home in Franconia Township near Taylors Falls is inspiring.
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The
first farmhouse in Minneapolis’s Kenwood neighborhood, built in the 1880s, is
now the home of Leslye and Eddie Phillips and their eleven-year-old twins,
Hutton and J. J.
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Interior
designer Billy Beson (shown) and his partner Ronn Larson continue to call
Minneapolis home, but their Florida penthouse has become somewhat of a satellite
location for Beson’s firm.
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Ray Johnson and
his wife, Susan, have decorated the walls of their Lake Minnetonka estate with a
few of their 10,000 pieces of Russian art—believed to be the largest privately
owned collection outside the former Soviet Union.
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From the sun porch filled with vintage rattan to the
tricked-out basement with the prerequisite cocktail bar—at every turn in Gary
Klun and Jason Engelman's home you can
see how it used to be in the good ol’ days.
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