Camille LeFevre
Camille LeFevre has been writing about architecture and design for local and national publications throughout her career as an arts journalist. Her love of home as a place of sanctuary, inspiration, and community is profound, whether she’s teaching Pilates out of her home studio in Saint Paul or welcoming guests to her family house in Sedona.
Indie film stars modernist architecture of Columbus, Indiana
It opens quietly, as a fashionably dressed woman roams through the famed Miller House—designed by Eero Saarinen, in Columbus, Indiana, calling out for her...
Jack Lenor Larsen joins celebrants in a retrospective of his legendary textile designs at...
Metaphors abound when design enthusiasts and textile aficionados begin rhapsodizing about the life and work of Jack Lenor Larsen. An article in the New...
“Native Gardens”: A Hilarious (and Harrowing) Play About Race, Class, Entitlement—and Gardening
We all have them: neighbors. Consequently, we all have neighbor stories—and most likely, neighbor disputes. Lights shining into windows; dogs barking too early, too...
Prefab weeHouses Preparing to Land on Rooftop at Lyn-Lake, Adding Density and Sustainability to...
News that Alchemy Architects’ weeHouses would soon appear in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood, on the roof of a building at 29th and Bryant, got us...
Local Lending: Minneapolis Lending Library Holds Summer Lending Event For Art Lovers to Borrow...
Artist: Robert Nicholl
Title: 527 24th StreetThose of a certain age may recall the days when a tiny gallery housed on the fourth floor of...
PlansMatter Adds 18 New Properties to Its Array of Architect-Designed Vacation Rentals
In honor of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday, PlansMatter, an agency through which architecture aficionados (Yes! That’s us!) can rent the architect-designed homes of their...
Mia’s New Installations in Period Rooms Explore Colonialism and Cultural Appropriation
Mia is engaged in a bold experiment, especially within our current cultural climate. When the history and legacy of non-white communities are overlooked, under-researched,...
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Set to Reopen After Controversy Over Sam Durant Sculpture “Scaffold”
“It’s a different era,” said Tom Oslund, landscape architect and founder of oslund.and.assoc., several weeks ago. We were standing on top of the Walker...
Sleep Tight and Live Light by Renting LightHotel for a Night
Is it an RV? A camper cabin? An accessory dwelling unit? A tiny house? A mobile hotel room? A ultra-modern tiny house? Geoff Warner’s...
Sleep Tight and Live Light by Renting LightHotel for a Night
Is it an RV? A camper cabin? An accessory dwelling unit? A tiny house? A mobile hotel room? A ultra-modern tiny house? Geoff Warner’s...
Wright This Way: Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail Guides Travelers to Nine Public and...
Travelers and Wright enthusiasts can add Wingspread (Racine), Burnham American System Built Homes (Milwaukee) and the First Unitarian Society Meeting House (Madison) to their must-see list.
Neal Peterson and Moooi Carpets Team Up for Mandala Rug Collection
Neal Peterson and Moooi Carpets have teamed up to turn Peterson's mandala collages representing cities around the world into circular, cotton rugs.
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Reopens
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden at the Walker Art Center reopens with an 19-acre expansion including, a native-plant meadow, more than 300 trees and more.
From Condemned to Completely Refurbished: A Clarence H. Johnston Mansion on Summit Avenue Receives...
One of St. Paul’s most spectacular avenues is no longer punctuated by the dilapidated, condemned Clarence H. Johnston-designed home at 701 Summit Avenue. The...
Artists and Home Goods Artisans of The North Celebrated in Show at Light Grey...
The idea of rebranding the Upper Midwest as The North began gaining traction back in 2014, after Eric Dayton—co-owner of Askov Finlayson and Bachelor...
Get Remodeling Inspiration at Minneapolis-St. Paul Home Tour
This weekend, at 52 locations throughout the Twin Cities, homeowners are opening up their residences for anyone to visit—and acquire inspiration, insights and information...
Frego Containers in Environmentally Safe, Colorful Designs
In 2010, Juhi Gupta of Eden Prairie decided she’d had enough—with plastic containers that leach toxic chemicals when heated in the microwave, with glass...
Mia’s Art in Bloom Fills the Galleries with Scent and Sensation
A floral-themed fashion show; the celebration of the lowly carnation; and lecture-demonstrations on paper flowers, Tuscan gardens, and finding inspiration in the art of botanical drawing—those are just single petals on the bountiful bloom soon to burst at Mia (Minneapolis Institute of Art).
Beadle Mania: A Minnesota Native and Maverick of Modernism Is Celebrated During Phoenix Modern...
They’re affectionately called Beadle boxes because of their extremely simple box-shaped forms, sometimes set on raised platforms, with steel frames, flat roofs, concrete-block detailing and open-air carports. What many Beadle aficionados didn't know, however, was that the architect got his start in Minnesota.
Storming the Castle: Touring the David Wright House, One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Spiral...
The David Wright House in the bucolically named Phoenix suburb of Arcadia was dubbed “a modern castle in the air” when Frank Lloyd Wright finished the circular home in 1952 for his son and daughter-in-law.
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