Thomas Connors

DESTINED TO DESIGN

Interiors maven Laura Tribbett has been reading rooms all her life. Laura Tribbett didn’t stand a chance. She was born to be an interior designer. As a kid growing up outside the Twin Cities, she loved building with Legos and making shoebox dioramas. By the time she was in high school, she was hooked on

EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE

Professional stager and organizer Ashley Rapp knows what goes where. Sometimes we weed out our closets. Sometimes we replant our careers. After a decade spent working for a global supply chain company, followed by stints at a private school and a landscaping company, Ashley Rapp reinvented herself as a home staging and organizing pro. “When

HOME TOUR: LIVING CLEAN

Margaret Stender left the city and Victorian style behind when she commissioned Evanston’s first certified Passive House, a marvel of efficiency and modern design. For many of us, there comes a time when we look around our houses and think, “How can I live better?” For some, this means going hard on the decluttering. For

A LIFE IN COLOR AND LINES

From childhood sketches to global travels and gallery walls, artist Erin Kaya finds peace and purpose in geometric shapes and vibrant hues. Asking Erin Kaya why she got into art is like asking why the sky is blue? “I don’t know what made me start drawing because it was just something I always did,” says

CUTTING-EDGE CONSERVATION

Last November, when most of us were savoring a piece of pumpkin pie, Lesley de Souza and Nigel Pitman could only dream of a home-cooked meal. Conservation scientists with Chicago’s famed Field Museum, the Evanston couple was deep in Guyana’s rainforest conducting one of the most comprehensive studies of the area’s ecological and biodiver- sity

HOPE & ACTION

Polar geography specialist Dr. Victoria Herrmann traces the course of her career to an early acquaintance with the hard facts of history. “I grew up hearing the stories of my grandparents who are Holocaust survivors and the devastation that came from a silent world as their communities faced an existential threat. From a young age,

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