Apartment Therapy Tagged: Mpls

Minimalist Motivational Posters

The Midwest Visual Agency combines motivation, Swiss typography, and mixtape rap in these calmly cool posters that also come in cubicle dimensions. Successories, meet the stepchildren....

Look!: Simple Pumpkin Planters

A neighbor actually made those Martha/Country Living-y pumpkin planters, and they look good. It's simple as hollowing them jack o'lantern style then planting grocery store blossoms. The fleamarket tab...

Hunt & Gather
Minneapolis

Technically Hunt & Gather is an antique store. But what it offers - a visual cacophony of color combos, many multiples and ingenious groupings - is anything but dated. A type-lovers nirvana, it overf...

Roundup: Handmaidens Indie Craft Fair
Minneapolis

Crafts usurped karaoke at the VFW yesterday. We saw what’s new from some favorite Twin Cities crafties, and found a few new ones—many of whom sell online, of course. ...

Sneak Peek: Nest, An Exhibition in Living
St. Louis Park, MN

Art + rough real estate world = an interesting show. Artists Terrence Payne and Amy Rice are taking breaks from their regular art beats to ready Nest, a show hosted by Sotheby’s real estate in a mid...

Big Sale: Odegard Warehouse
Minneapolis

401(k) be damned, this sale and this qualiy are far too good to pass up. Odegard cleared out overstocks from all over the country to bring 1000+ clearance rugs to Minneapolis....

Custom Cat Towers

Pet Month wouldn't be complete without sharing the ultimate antidote to the sisal-and-carpet cat condo. Mpls-based Pussywood Custom Cat Towers is neither minimalist or mod... unless you make it so. No...

Pet Vérité Portraiture

You love your house. You love your pet. Rachel Bliss manages to capture the soul of animals, people and spaces in these vérité portrayals of everyday pet life. ...

Soap Factory $99 Sale

Regional force/source for emerging art, Soap Factory hosts a blind fundraiser that promotes the value and gut check of art for its own sake. The rules: one size, one price, no names, 200+ pieces from ...

Look!: Slated Pillar

An afternoon coffee stop ran us into this rough-hewn pillar that felt very fall. From a distance, the texture looked like weathered, rustic wood. It’s actually odd bits of slate. ...

AT On: Livability & Lawn Signs

Something besides withering echincea and political signs have cropped across our Minneapolis hood: entreaties to go slow. Prompted by road-construction detours, they made us think. First, how fast are...

Nola Home

With a mix of old, new, global, local and where-the-heck-did-she-find-that, this Bryn Mawr boutique earns that dubious local compliment: It doesn’t feel like it’s in Minneapolis… Click through...

Look!: Outdoor "Wallpaper"

Cities scramble before guests arrive, just like the rest of us. The RNC is coming, and with it, a last-minute public rejuvenation that's led Minneapolis' utility boxes to be refaced by local artists. ...

Fox Tax & Art Gallery

It’s business in the back and art party in the front. This Mpls brother & sister tax preparation business lets you itemize your deductions, then spend them on a painting all in one stop. ...

Gallery: Amy Rice Open Studio

Amy Rice is one of those "knew her when" artists—most likely to get snapped up by a savvy Anthropologie buyer and busted out as the next big thing. Her recent open studio night let us catch up with...

Look!: Artful Fenders

Lose your ability to get away unnoticed. Get out the paint and make your own moving homage to these reimagined bicycle fenders, as seen on display on in the studio of Mpls artist Amy Rice. ...

Iota:Max Portion-Controlled Architectural Consults

Modern Mpls architecture/interior design firm Iota offers a one-time, just-enough consult because “sometimes... solid advice and a fistful of sketches will fit the bill.” This pre-priced professio...

Nate’s Custom Vinyl & Sewing

This graphic childhood logo is now a local craft-cult icon. Thank Nate's immortalizing needles and his very own Vinyl Lux technique of layered, stitched, dimensional art. Recreate your pet, your desi...

Russell+Hazel Sidewalk Sale

Back-to-school displays have us jonesing for all things paper-producty and productive. Mpls-based luxury-utilitarians Russell+Hazel answered our prayers with a sidewalk sale—and it's online, too. ...

Shopping Twin Cities Green

Semi-officially deemed the best antidote to green guilt in the Twin Cities, this Uptown Mpls greenporium has the fair trade wares and national niche brands you’d expect. What we didn't: a wide mix o...

The Art of Barbie

Minneapolis-based multi-crafter and artist Michelle Brusegaard created photos that make Barbie more human than her 11.5-inch height and infamous proportions suggest. ...

Pre-Fab, Fifty Years Later

It was the modernist Holy Grail – a prefab, vintage 1958. An aluminum home with wood interiors built by Alcoa and designed by Charles M. Goodman, it awaited at a very possible price. It had post an...

Spinario Design Mid-Century Finds

Madmen-mania makes us want to pour a stiff drink, freshen up our lipstick and pick up something nice at Spinario Design, one of Minneapolis’ great mid-century semi-secrets. ...

Sean Tubridy Prints

Prints by Mpls-based Sean Tubridy make us long for the aimless summer nights of our childhood, and the imagined comforts of mid-century life. ...

Reclaimed Granite Pavers

Get a bit of local history along with some green re-using and a great patio. The city of Minneapolis will sell you reclaimed - and crazy heavy - granite pavers. ...

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