For our fourth annual Home Tours, we visit the homes of some of the Twin Cities’ most fascinating people.
September 2007
From a progressive architect’s family bungalow
to a modern retailer’s foreign artifact–filled East Isles duplex
to world-renowned couple Kristi Yamaguchi and Bret Hedican’s
waterfront vacation home, see how individuality defines good design.
By Melissa Colgan and Jennifer Blaise Kramer
Photographs by Karen Melvin
Produced by Jayne Haugen Olson and Heidi Libera
“Many
people have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on kitchens
they never
use," Andrew says. “We have done the opposite, investing nothing
in something we use
all the time.”
Wilcox, a connoisseur of everything old and ornate, has
decorated her home in a kind of Gothic, eighteenth-century design, but with her superb creative-director’s eye, she has edited
the
décor for a more modern look.
The Wickas, with their eclectic yet highly refined design style, managed to improve on the stunning architecture of their 1917 Mediterranean-style Lake of the Isles home.
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