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2 weeks ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro
Joy Christensen couldn’t stop daydreaming about a house on the corner of 12th and Lami in Soulard. The former radio personality and restaurant owner has long had a soft spot for historic architecture. In 2015, the year she first spotted the house with a leaky Mansard roof and marbled—albeit warped—front panels, she and her husband, Ron Christensen, were living a few miles west in another historic home.
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2 weeks ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro
Robert Morrissey, who began his career in 1982 as a clerk at Clark Graves Antiques in Clayton, is closing his shop at 704 Hanley Industrial Court. The last day to shop in-store will be May 24. Subscribe to the St. Louis Design+Home newsletter to explore the latest stories from the local interior design, fashion, and retail scene. We will never send spam or annoying emails. Unsubscribe anytime. “The world has moved online,” says Morrissey. “People just aren’t out antiquing.
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2 weeks ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro
Design & Detail, a one-stop shopping destination for designer resources and services—including carpets and wallcoverings, fabrics and furniture—is expanding its showroom at 2731 Sutton in Maplewood. The growth of specific trade categories, as well as crowding on the floor, necessitated more space, says Melinda Klinghammer, president and owner. Subscribe to the St. Louis Design+Home newsletter to explore the latest stories from the local interior design, fashion, and retail scene.
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3 weeks ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro |Megan Mertz |Melissa Meinzer |George Mahe
I’ve been asked this question a lot throughout the nine–or is it 10–years I’ve hosted the awards. With the conclusion last night of this year’s competition, I thought today would be a good time to provide advice for how to submit projects that catch the judges’ eye. Whether you’re new to the competition, or submit projects annually, I always tell people to begin by reading through the submission details on our website and adding important dates, from deadlines to announcements, to their calendar.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Cara Downs |Veronica Theodoro |Caroline Kopsky |Cheryl Baehr
If most people travel to relax and unwind, interior designers are not most people. When designers travel to industry shows, antique markets, or design events, they’re expecting to be wowed, energized, enlightened. “Traveling for work gives me so much inspiration,” says Lauren Thorpe, owner of Bonboni Interior Design.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Charlene Oldham |Caroline Kopsky |Veronica Theodoro |George Mahe
As the oldest permanent European settlement west of the Mississippi River, Ste. Geneviève is home to the country’s largest collection of vertical log structures, a style of French colonial architecture that has virtually vanished elsewhere in the United States.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Kathleen Lees |Connie Mitchell |Christine Jackson |Veronica Theodoro
Local leaders across some of the metro area’s top sectors, from agtech to bioscience, geospatial intelligence to logistics and transportation, and beyond. Korean-French bakery chain Tous les Jours opening soon in the Delmar Loop The international chain beloved for its Asian- and French-inspired artisan pastries and gourmet desserts plans to open its first St. Louis area location on February 20 in the Delmar Loop.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro
Over the years I’ve thought about investing in a high-quality desk chair, but never did anything more about it. Maybe I’m lazy or lack the time to devote to a good search. So, for now, I’m still using an antique wood armchair, bought at an estate sale for $25 and reupholstered in a cool linen fabric. Sure, it looks good, but I suffered terrible back and neck pain last summer and I thought the chair might have had something to do with it.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro |Micah Barnes |Cara Downs
Veronica Theodoro Veronica Theodoro is editor in chief of design and home content for St. Louis Magazine. She edits the weekly Design + Home newsletter and hosts the monthly House of Lou podcast, in addition to contributing print stories to the magazine. Veronica is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City and Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana. In her spare time, she likes to tend to her home, a 150-plus-old Italianate in the historic Central West End neighborhood.
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2 months ago | 
stlmag.com | Veronica Theodoro
Throughout these past few weeks in St. Louis, I’ve marveled at the state of a few driveways near where I live. The reason for my curiosity is that something is causing the snow to melt soon after a storm. I suspect there’s more to it than an industrious homeowner with a shovel and salt bag in hand, so I called Stephen Ryan, the service manager at Rhymes Heating and Cooling, to find out what else could be going on.
