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AUTUMN 2016

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contents

100

live artfully

culture

compass

41 what to

61 artist

94 destination

66 beauty

100 getaway

71 guide

111 tour

buy, know, drive, drink, read

Luke Hillestad helps revive classical figure painting.

What to buy now.

80 style

The most dapper of fall fashion.

Two Swiss resorts deliver big on elegant hospitality.

The world’s greatest destinations the artful way.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY 2ND TRUTH

Autumn’s must-try cosmetic treatments.

Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club offers an unforgettable experience.

“Look Good, Feel Great with Beautiful Skin.”

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adventure

216

234 escape

Amangani offers a luxe opportunity to be one with nature.

home

240 outing

Arizona Cowboy College is truly transformative.

198 IMS discoveries The latest and greatest from International Market Square.

246 expedition

An incredible journey to the North Pole.

202 trend

intel

206 innovation

265 fashion

Inside the North’s tiny-homes movement.

A snapshot of New York Fashion Week.

210 renovation

273 lens

Contemporary and traditional play nice in a remodeled Tudor.

Alec Soth captures Middle America.

216 build

279 North notables

A lakefront home reflects the woman who designed it.

The region’s best and brightest.

220 insider’s guide

234

Top designers on creating incredible interiors.

recurring

140 property gallery

292 back page

286 profile

A look at Ralph Burnet’s American dream.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY LANDMARK | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED BY AMAN

The key to creating cozy spaces.

from the publisher ||

Style + Substance

reating a magazine is a highly collaborative and gratifying occupation. Four times a year, we take a blank slate, hold a brainstorming session, contract with dozens of freelancers and begin to piece together a product. It’s like baking a delicious cake with countless ingredients. What started eight years ago as a vehicle to market and sell real estate has transformed into the North’s leading lifestyle publication. Last year, we trademarked the phrase “Magazine of the North” and rededicated our efforts to bring a unique voice along with a heightened level of content, design and structure to our affluent audience. Welcome to the style issue of Artful Living. Our feature, our third annual A-List Awards, is our definitive guide to the best of the North. This curated collection of the finest in home, style, adventure, and food and drink may even spark some inspiration for your holiday gifting for the season ahead. Speaking of A listers, also in this issue is a profile of real-estate legend Ralph Burnet. He and his wife, Peggy, have made an enormous impression on our region, from building the finest real-estate brokerage to opening world-class hotels to championing our own Walker Art Center. Also within our pages are the latest looks from New York Fashion Week. And be sure to check out our men’s fashion shoot with Martin Patrick 3 photographed on location at the new Hewing Hotel in Minneapolis. Finally, don’t miss “The Incredible Journey,” the unbelievable tale of an outlandish cast of characters who hatch a plan to be the first men to travel to the North Pole on snowmobiles. Artful Living will continue to be a place for timeless subject matter, escapism and inspiration. We are proud to deliver remarkable content at the crossroads of style and substance. Cheers,

Frank Roffers Publisher + Editor-in-Chief

ELEVENTY

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Interior design, fine home furnishings and beautiful men’s apparel. Experience for yourself the classic and the contemporary, brought artfully together.

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WHAT'S YOUR STYLE MAN TR A?

publisher + editor-in-chief Frank Roffers

managing editor Keep it simple and stylish.

Hayley Dulin

executive editor Kate Nelson

If I like it, I wear it.

Make a statement without speaking a word.

Own it.

art director Mandy Ebert

assistant art director Kimberly Goldfarb

copy editor Micki Sievwright

business manager Kailee Marten

High and low, vintage and new.

marketing director

Comfortable and casual.

Emma Cutler

project manager Genevieve Cossette

style + product coordinator

Know who you are and dress accordingly.

Jill Roffers

intern Hannah Fox

contributors writers: Alex Bellus, Katie Dohman, Amber Gibson, Marguerite Happe, Julie Kendrick, Elizabeth Foy Larsen, Guy Lawson, Wendy Lubovich, Chadner Navarro, Chris Plantan photographers: 2nd Truth, Roy Son, Sweat Engine creative consultant: Mollie Windmiller

advertising sales Contact Frank Roffers at 952-237-1100 or froffers@artfullivingmagazine.com.

subscriber services Contact Kailee Marten at kmarten@artfullivingmagazine.com. Artful Living, 218 Washington Avenue North, Suite 220, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Artful Living is published by Roffers Group, LLC, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted without permission. Roffers Group, LLC cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Artful Living is committed to preserving the environment and demonstrates this by printing efficiently and sustainably. In consideration of environmental impact, this magazine is 100-percent recyclable.

contributors || With fall comes… Our contributors share.

Katie Dohman

New office supplies! I treat it just like back to school for grown-up me.

Guy Lawson

Color, change, a chance to take long walks.

Chris Plantan

Awe-inspiring natural beauty.

Colleen Eversman (2nd Truth)

Cozy clothes, wool socks and weekend camping trips.

Wendy Lubovich

A time to take in art and dance.

Kevin Lu (Sweat Engine)

The gentle nostalgia for summer.

MARTHA O’HARA INTERIORS

Photo by Corey Gaffer.

on the cover ||

On the Cover The cover of our autumn issue is an artful homage to the wild world of style. A symbol of grace and elegance, the giraffe is the tallest animal to walk the earth thanks to its impressively lengthy limbs, much like those of the models who walk the runway. Each of these magnificent creatures has a coat pattern that is uniquely its own, an apt metaphor for each fashionista’s individual approach to a singular sense of style.

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Fashion Forward The Way We Wore inspires a vintage generation. | BY WENDY LUBOVICH

he calls herself the fairy godmother of vintage fashion. Hollywood’s Doris Raymond wants to welcome a younger generation of women into the collecting sisterhood. Her iconic The Way We Wore boutique in Los Angeles caters to movie stars and top stylists alike. Here you’ll find rare, museum-quality gowns from the 1920s, couture from the forties and mod minis from the sixties. The idea is to break away from the cookie-cutter, fast-fashion ethos and encourage women to get creative with their wardrobes. What to buy now? Items from the 1990s are highly desirable yet

still affordable, Raymond explains. Pieces by Tom Ford for Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix and Todd Oldham are good bets to hold their value. And while finding that perfect frock is a rewarding journey, it’s what you pair with your dress that makes all the difference. Accessories are a good area to get eclectic, Raymond says. Purses, shoes and jewelry by Chanel, Prada and Yves Saint Laurent will remain desirable as the decades roll by. They are sturdy enough to use while still holding their value. She adds that handbags from the 1960s are especially well-made and wearable. As for anything earlier by Chanel, she says, put it in a safe.

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A Grand Opening Tory Burch makes its Minnesota debut. | BY HANNAH FOX

oming this fall to Edina’s Galleria is Minnesota’s first Tory Burch boutique. Scheduled to open in October, the custom-designed space will boast the brand’s signature orange lacquer doors and chandeliers. The 3,200-square-foot store will offer a wide range of wares: ready-to-wear clothing, handbags, shoes, leather goods, jewelry, accessories and fragrance. The opening of the new shop coincides with the launch of Tory Burch’s Gemini Link collection. It debuted at the designer’s fall/winter show and is distinguished by two gold-toned links joined together, a play off the brand’s signature logo that celebrates life’s dualities. The Gemini Link collection includes shoes, belts, handbags and jewelry. “Tory Burch is a coveted brand in the style world, and we’re thrilled to add her namesake boutique to our collection,” says Galleria Marketing Director Rachel Oelke. “This new store is a must for fashion lovers.”

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The 2017 Bentley Bentayga is in a class of its own. | BY ALEX BELLUS

ith the first year’s worth of Bentley Bentayga production already sold out, it’s clear that the world’s fastest luxury SUV is a hit. And why wouldn’t it be? With excellent road manners, no shortage of power, and all the bells and whistles you’d expect from the opulent automaker, this is the most sophisticated vehicle to ever leave Crewe, England. With 103 paint colors, 16 leathers and seven wood veneers to choose from, there are more than 11,500 ways to stand out amongst the crowd. Britain’s best and brightest engineers have enabled the Bentayga to boldly go where no Bentley has gone before. The model’s sophisticated air suspension and nine drivetrain modes — four of which are designed exclusively for off-road use — mean that the SUV can make the best of just about anything. And with 600 horsepower under the bonnet, there’s no shortage of thrust to get you down the road quickly. From behind the wheel, you’re cocooned in a world of buttery-soft leather, finely grained wood and beautiful, hand-polished aluminum. The double-paned windows keep the serene cabin insulated from the elements. All told, the Bentayga is every bit as comfortable parked in front of the country club as it is traversing the trails of Moab, Utah. Starting at $229,100

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The Walker Art Center’s Annual Benefit Saturday, November 19 Proceeds from Avant Garden support the Walker Art Center’s award-winning artistic and educational programs.

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Gold Standard Louis XIII teams up to create the ultimate ode to adventure. | BY CHADNER NAVARRO

hen Louis XIII, the super-luxe cognac produced by Rémy Martin, partnered with Hermès, Puiforcat and Saint-Louis on the L’Odyssée d’un Roi project, it was the first time that four Métiers d’Art houses have come together to collaborate on one offering. “We chose to partner with these esteemed houses as they share the same values of Louis XIII: a common quest for excellence, craftsmanship and rarity,” says Yves de Launay, vice president of prestige brands at Rémy Cointreau USA. And the results — which required 50 artisans working thousands of hours — are stunning. Inspired by Louis XIII’s travel heritage, three hand-stitched Hermès leather trunks were created to commemorate the three continents where the cognac originally sailed: Asia, Europe and

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North America. And inside? Even more opulence. Each Puiforcat white-gold pipette was hand forged for 40 hours. The Saint-Louis magnum-sized decanters and glasses called on the craftsmanship of 10 specially trained artisans. Each decanter took 270 hours to complete, its exterior gloriously etched with a 19th century map of one of the aforementioned continents. And then there’s the cognac. Louis XIII Cellar Master Baptiste Loiseau blended the finest, rarest eaux de vie from the Grande Champagne region, some of which are more than a century old and had been hidden away in demijohns for posterity. The final blend delivers a powerful combination of the complexity of coffee, the freshness of mint and the spiciness of ginger. It’s a cognac to discover.

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Great Estate An inside look at Duluth’s Glensheen mansion. | BY KATE NELSON | PHOTOGRAPHY BY 2ND TRUTH

uluth’s storied Glensheen mansion is steeped in mystery and mystique. And few know this great estate better than writer Tony Dierckins, who in 2003 published Will to Murder, the definitive book about the killings that took place there back in 1977. Featuring stunning full-color photography by Dennis O’Hara, the author’s latest tome takes readers on a veritable tour of the palatial compound that sits upon the shore of Lake Superior, offering a rare glimpse into the lavish lifestyles of yore. Glensheen begins with a brief history lesson. Patriarch Chester Congdon made his fortune as a lawyer and was second only to railroad magnate James J. Hill in terms of Minnesota wealth. He and wife Clara tapped renowned architect Clarence H. Johnston to “build an estate befitting their position.” Erected in 1908, it took more than three years to complete and cost some $22 million in today’s dollars. The family ultimately left the compound to the University of Minnesota, and in 1979, Glensheen opened to the public as a museum. The book is broken down by floor, with common spaces on the main level; women’s quarters on the second; men’s on the third; and “work and play” on the lower level. While each of the mansion’s 39 rooms tells a story, of particular interest are the infirmary and the trunk room up on the third floor. But the fan favorite on tours today (and a space beloved by the Congdons themselves) is the main-level sunroom, with its unmatched views of the formal garden and the lake beyond. As O’Hara so eloquently explains in his preface: “Perched on the shore of Lake Superior, Glensheen reminds me of an agate polished by time, a testimony to a region blessed with natural beauty and heritage. Like the big lake itself, you can visit the Congdon estate repeatedly and each time leave with a different impression — and you cannot help but walk away feeling a part of something larger than yourself.”

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Figuratively Literally Luke Hillestad helps revive classical figure painting. | BY MARGUERITE HAPPE

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hen surveying the works of painter Luke Hillestad, one senses that the delicacy and intensity of the Rembrandtian tradition may not be lost after all. “Right now, there’s certainly a movement in which younger generations are returning to paint in an earnest, figurative style,” he says. “It takes a lot of work to paint this way, and the learning curve is extremely steep.” The St. Louis Park native began painting as a child, asking for oil paints for Christmas when he was just 8 years old. Eventually, Hillestad made the jump from his land-surveying day job to become a full-time painter. He was inspired by the works of Norwegian figure painter Odd Nerdrum at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. “Discovering him was to understand that my dream job was possible,” he explains. To date, the artist has studied with Nerdrum in Norway three times, an apprenticeship he thinks is crucial to honing the skills necessary for the revival of traditional figurative painting. “Odd Nerdrum is the best living painter,” Hillestad says. “He certainly has done a lot of work to bring back the traditions that were common 150 years ago. These are skills that have to be passed from teacher to student; they aren’t things you can just write down or learn from a book.” Today, the artist works from his home studio to create paintings that engage with mysterious imagery, archetypal themes and visual puzzles. Each creation must be not only an aesthetic achievement, but a narrative one: “My favorite paintings all tell some sort of story,” Hillestad notes. “The ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew well that myths can be great teachers of reason.” His uncanny ability to reveal small subtleties renders him a specialist in commissioned portraits. “Most faces are quite nuanced,” he explains. “It’s a different way to capture identity than a photograph. I get to know the subject, I watch their face for hours on end, I see what aspects of their physiognomy are really true to who they are.” Hillestad’s work is available from Douglas Flanders & Associates in Minneapolis. He credits Flanders for being the first Twin Cities gallery to recognize the potential for his work. “My collectors range from those who are fascinated with the wild and dramatic to folks who treasure the soft and beautiful,” he notes. “Some want to capture loved ones in a classic portrait. Others have space for large depictions of mythic events and allegories. Many of them have a sense for a resurgence of classical beauty and understand the historical and cultural importance of the relationship between painter and patron.”

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When you look good, you feel good,” says Juut SalonSpa Owner David Wagner. “Shiny, healthy, radiant hair and glowing skin can totally make your day, week and month!” For autumn, he recommends cutting back on daily hair maintenance by adding a smoothing treatment to a styling or color service. The Nano Complex Treatment is a luxe blend of amino acids, natural polymers and pure, 24-karat nano gold molecules that texturizes, straightens and conditions hair, leaving it in superior condition. After your hair is smooth and silky, prepare your skin for the harsh change of season with a facial. “A facial with tulas¯ra, a Aveda’s new advanced-performance skincare line, is a highly effective, more natural alternative to your basic facial,” Wagner explains. The treatment includes a dual-exfoliation peel that yields the results of microdermabrasion or a chemical peel without redness, irritation or downtime. For Wagner, Juut’s emphasis on wellness in hair- and skincare is part of the salon’s mission to celebrate individuality and authentic beauty. “Providing beautiful results? We’re experts at it,” he concludes with a smile.

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As one of the North’s premier dermatologists, Charles Crutchfield III, MD, knows how to save skin from the fine lines and dullness of aging, all without going under the knife. “A Liquid Facelift is an hour-long, no-knife procedure that can take years off your appearance,” he explains. “I use a combination of non- and minimally invasive techniques to rejuvenate the face. Think no surgery, no downtime, but the look of a facelift.” The treatment utilizes a platelet-rich plasma that is centrifuged to produce natural growth factors and is then injected into the skin. After one to two weeks, the plasma begins to produce collagen and hyaluronic acid to fill in lines and wrinkles. “The Liquid Facelift is for someone who might be uncomfortable with a traditional procedure but who still wants a youthful, fresh appearance,” notes the dermatologist. The procedure was developed for and by Crutchfield Dermatology, and any patient who undergoes it is treated exclusively by Crutchfield. “These are some of the most advanced aesthetic techniques available in the world today at prescription-strength levels provided by a board-certified dermatologist,” he explains. Smooth, silky skin sans surgery? We’ll take it.

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If you’ve grappled with age-related eye deterioration, you know the challenge of misplacing your reading glasses, struggling to perform detailed work and growing frustrated with your inability to strengthen near-distance vision. Presbyopia, an age-related weakening of the lens of the eye, has had few cures until now. Meet the KAMRA Inlay, a treatment that improves near-distance vision without sacrificing distance vision in both eyes. “Many patients view their dependence on reading or near-vision glasses as a disability,” explains David Hardten, MD, FACS, partner at Minnesota Eye Consultants. “The KAMRA Inlay provides patients with the freedom to lead an active lifestyle, to travel without worrying about packing contacts or glasses. They have the ability to read the menu in a restaurant without pulling out reading glasses!” Though a relatively small number of patients have undergone the recently FDA-approved procedure, Hardten says that most Minnesota Eye Consultants patients who have received the treatment indicate that it has improved their quality of life. Smaller and thinner than a contact lens, the inlay is inserted into the cornea and uses a pinhole effect in the non-dominant eye to retrain it. It refocuses the light coming into the eye to restore near vision with impeccable distance vision and no blurry zones. For those interested in seeing clearly, there’s nothing more beautiful.

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OPPOSITE // ALEXANDER WANG ATTICA MINI CHAIN SATCHEL, Pumpz & Co., pumpzco.com, $650 | ALEXANDER WANG MINI LIA STUDDED LEATHER CROSS-BODY BAG, Pumpz & Co., $650 | HAMMITT PAUL CROSS-BODY BAG, Pumpz & Co., $325 | ABOVE // CHLOÉ MEDIUM FAYE LEATHER AND SUEDE SHOULDER BAG, Nordstrom, nordstrom.com, $1,950

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AKOYA PEARL AND DIAMOND STRAND FROM THE NATURE COLLECTION, JB Hudson Jewelers, jbhudson.com, $86,000 | ONE-OF-A-KIND LEAVES RING, Scheherazade Jewelers, sjewelers.com, $7,600 for mounting | BREITLING GALACTIC 29, Continental Diamond, continentaldiamond.com, $8,330 | ROBERTO COIN INSIDE-OUT HOOP EARRINGS, R.F. Moeller Jeweler, rfmoeller.com, $4,500

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LOLLIA WISH NO. 22, Indulge and Bloom, indulgeandbloom.com, $50 | EAU DE COLOGNE TABACO, Coqui Coqui Perfumeria, $88 | MAISON FRANCIS KURKDJIAN AQUA UNIVERSALIS EAU DE TOILETTE, La Petite Parfumerie, lapetiteparfumerie.com, $275 | DIPTYQUE SATIN OIL, Ampersand Shops, ampersandshops.com, $60 | EAU DE PARFUM GYPSY WATER, Byredo, byredo.com, $230 | FREDERIC MALLE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, La Petite Parfumerie, $250 | FREDERIC MALLE CARNAL FLOWER, La Petite Parfumerie, $250 | BOND NO. 9 NEW YORK SIGNATURE SCENT, La Petite Parfumerie, $370

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Living History Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club offers an unforgettable experience. | BY FRANK ROFFERS

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ou know you have arrived someplace special when driving up the jacaranda-lined boulevard that leads to the 120-acre estate surrounded by gardens, lawns and streams sprawled at the foot of Mount Kenya. Situated in an old-school Colonial setting, the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club is a destination reminiscent of times gone by. In the 1950s, American actor William Holden was on a hunting safari near the town of Nanyuki when he came across this plot of land. He and two partners purchased it in the 1960s, and the Mount Kenya Game Ranch was born. Upon taking over the property several years ago, the Fairmont Group restored its majesty while honoring its historical significance. The Club was the watering hole for the glitterati of the fifties and sixties, and the hotel’s gold book was a veritable who’s who of that time period. Black-and-white photographs adorning the walls depict Holden and such famous guests as Winston Churchill, Bing Crosby, Ernest Hemingway and Steve McQueen. An animal orphanage sits just steps from the main guesthouse. Started by actress Stephanie Powers in Holden’s name after his death in 1981, this nonprofit sanctuary acts as a modern-day ode to wildlife preservation. It is home to the only bongo breeding area in all of Africa. Also in residence is a massive, 150-year-old

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Where to Stay in Nairobi Upon arriving in Kenya, savvy travelers renew and refresh at Fairmont The Norfolk in the heart of the capital city. An institution since its opening in 1904, the hotel is often used as base camp for going on safari. It offers 165 well-appointed guest rooms and suites, a heated outdoor pool, and private tropical gardens.

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tortoise named Speedy Gonzales. The orphanage offers a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with indigenous species, from caracals and cheetahs to antelope and primates. Traditional charm meets modern-day comfort in the resort’s 120 guest rooms, suites and cottages. They feature hardwood floors, marble bathrooms, fireplaces and verandas. The food is top-shelf, highlighting locally sourced, organic fare along with a variety of fresh herbs and vegetables procured from the hotel’s own garden. The signature eatery is Tusks, which offers vistas of the property’s beautifully manicured gardens and nearby Mount Kenya. The main lounge, Zebar, sits along the equator, and servers cross from the southern to the northern hemisphere to deliver drinks. Daily activities range from game drives in the nearby conservancies to horseback riding through the forest. The resort features a state-of-the-art fitness center, spa, outdoor pool and golf course. One-of-a-kind experiences can be arranged, from breakfast on the slopes of Mount Kenya to the ever-popular deck dinners outside the William Holden Cottages to a romantic dinner along the River Likii. Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club carries a colorful legacy unmatched in the region. Moreover, it delivers an unforgettable African experience.

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Mountain Time Two iconic Swiss resorts deliver big on elegant hospitality. | BY FRANK ROFFERS

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egend has it that here, in the snowy cradle of the Swiss Alps, a hotelier by the name of Johannes Badrutt bet a few departing British summer guests that even in the winter months they would enjoy Switzerland’s St. Moritz — or he’d cover their travel expenses, he promised. The Brits accepted the wager, returning around Christmastime. They loved it and didn’t leave until after Easter. Upon heading home, they couldn’t stop raving about their unforgettable holiday at the Kulm Hotel. And thus began a long-standing winter tradition. Located in the heart of the famous resort village, the Kulm has been standing guard over St. Moritz for more than 150 years. The property has been the historical anchor of the scene and even hosted the original Winter Olympic Games back in 1928. The hamlet is small and difficult to get to, which is part of its allure. The trek from the United States involves a flight to Zurich followed by a meandering, three-hour train ride aboard the Glacier Express. Travelers can enjoy panoramic views as they wind their way through mountainscapes, deep gorges and spiral tunnels while passing fairy-tale Alp villages. When the train finally grinds to a halt at the Rhaetian Railway station, a Kulm valet greets guests, assists with luggage and delivers visitors to the elegant property. The Kulm’s 173 guest rooms of varying sizes are outfitted with sunny colors, premium materials and local handicrafts. Guests can

choose their vista: the village of St. Moritz, Lake St. Moritz or the imposing Piz Nair mountain. The property’s five restaurants range from the upscale Grand Restaurant, where guests can enjoy gourmet fare, to modern eatery the K, with its menu inspired by classical French cooking. The trattoria-style Pizzeria serves up house-made, wood-fired pizzas and delectable pastas. A short jaunt from the hotel, the Bob Restaurant sits at the starting gate of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic bobsled run, offering light lunches in a sports-imbued environment. And finally the rustic Chesa al Parc is beloved for its large terrace as well as its Swiss and Italian specialties. Bars on property include the legendary Sunny Bar frequented by members of international high society. The Altitude Bar offers cocktails in an elegant setting with piano music playing in the background. Guests also have privileged entry to the famed Dracula Club, a local institution. Featuring panoramic views of Lake St. Moritz and the Engadine Valley, the spa is home to a heated outdoor pool, indoor pool, Jacuzzi pool and 13 treatment rooms. Other hotel offerings include a nine-hole golf course and three outdoor tennis courts. Come summer, the valley is the setting for a wide range of activities, including hiking, mountain biking, sailing, windsurfing and other adventure sports.

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Just six miles from St. Moritz sits sister property Grand Hotel Kronenhof Pontresina. The Oscar-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel must have drawn inspiration from this remarkable Old World jewel. Offering a stunning interior against a mountain backdrop, it shines blush pink come evening. Whereas the Kulm is ideal for jetsetters, Grand Hotel Kronenhof Pontresina is the perfect destination for royalty, business leaders, and those seeking privacy and relaxation. Set in the heart of the old town, the hotel is an outstanding example of 19th century Alpine design. Timeless elegance is the theme, with whimsical stucco ornaments and original ceiling frescoes juxtaposing historic Swiss pine paneling. A recent renovation resulted in 112 modern guest rooms and suites outfitted with birch furniture, cherry-stained paneling and abstract prints. There are several dining venues, including the can’t-miss Grand Restaurant, which sets the standard for culinary excellence with its Swiss staples and international dishes.

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The award-winning Kronenstübli offers a glimpse into the past, featuring original Engadine furniture and Swiss pine paneling. And the three-level Veltliner wine cellar displays a collection of original wine barrels, traditional bobsleds and wooden skis of yesteryear. The world-class Kronenhof Spa is one of the top wellness centers in the Alps. Guests can immerse themselves in a soothing combination of water, scent and sound. Spa amenities include a massive infinity pool with a countercurrent system, a pool with water jets, a relaxing flotation room with underwater music, a saltwater grotto, saunas, steam rooms, Kneipp footbaths, a solarium, a fitness room for yoga classes, and a fully equipped gym. Winter aficionados can take advantage of the 57 ski hills, miles of groomed slopes, natural ice rink, and endless cross-country ski and hiking trails. For romantics, there are horse-drawn sleigh rides or skiing in the moonlight. Renowned for its serene ambiance, Grand Hotel Kronenhof Pontresina is a masterpiece of a property from a bygone era.

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DRINK Quattro Bar // 41-81-833-63-55 Popular among athletes, this Corviglia hot spot features an astonishing design and panoramic views of the Swiss Alps. It is open year-round and is ready to get residents and visitors in the mood for the 2017 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

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SEE Cresta Run // cresta-run.com When British tourists of yore were looking for ways to amuse themselves, they created an icy chute from the natural slope to the neighboring hamlet of Celerina. Today, the Cresta Run is operated by the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, whose members still rocket down on skeleton toboggans at speeds nearing 80 mph, often in historical garb. Spectators cheer them on from the vintage clubhouse.

DO Olympia Bob Run // olympia-bobrun.ch The Olympia Bob Run from St. Moritz to Celerina is the world’s oldest bobsled run and the only natural ice track that continues to host international races. The adventurous can experience the thrill for themselves on a guest ride. Safely seated between the pilot and brakeman, novices enjoy speeds up to 85 mph and forces up to 4g.

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Todd Fillingham MILWAUKEE fillingham.com Todd Fillingham has been making furniture for 30-plus years, specializing in custom pieces carefully crafted by hand. His customers’ testimonials speak to his approach to “furniture as art.” Fillingham expresses his passion beautifully, explaining that even one chair created by someone who cares reminds us that there is a lot more to life: “There’s caring, there’s art and there’s being human.” Milwaukee is home to Fillingham’s design studio, where he crafted this beautiful deck chair, inspired by Danish modern and midcentury design. Drawing on his boat-building interests, he constructed it from walnut and northern white cedar. He finished it with a mix of his own oil and spar varnish for a durable topcoat that protects and provides a handsome luster. Starting at $1,400

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Cannon River Bowl and Spoon

Itasca Leathergoods

CANNON FALLS, MINNESOTA

LAKE GEORGE, MINNESOTA

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We couldn’t keep our hands off the wood bowls, cutting boards and serving pieces that Benjamin Leatham crafts out of his Cannon Falls studio. Their velvety finish and clean lines make these functional pieces seem more like artwork than kitchenware. And this is not by happenstance. Leatham grew up in a family that made its living as craftsmen. He feels fortunate that he is living the dream, “creating functional art that inspires him on a daily basis.” His attention to detail is evident in the care and construction of each piece. For this beautiful tapered rolling pin, Leatham assembles the American black walnut and curly maple in a checkered pattern, rending it both functional and fashionable. The bowls are turned in a way that highlights the personality of the wood. Each piece is then finely sanded and finished with up to eight coats of an FDA-approved hardening oil.

Itasca Leathergoods was founded in 1986 as Itasca Moccasin in the tiny community of Lake George, just east of the Mississippi River headwaters. While the company has since expanded beyond its original namesake, it holds fast to its heritage: a commitment to premium craftsmanship. We are particularly drawn to this firewood carrier, which epitomizes the idea of form and function. Designed to last for generations, it is crafted using a technique in which the oils infused into the thick hide during tanning move up to the surface of the leather and lighten in color. The carrier changes in character with use, becoming more beautiful with age. With thick, rolled-leather handles, it offers excellent grip and comfort even as the load gets heavier. $194

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Hoard Jewelry JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN hoardjewelry.com Jewelry should be meaningful and unique, heartfelt and precious. For husband-and-wife team Charles and Rebecca Cooner, that means handmade by someone who loves creating it and wants you to love wearing it. Elegant and completely classic, this slim, ultra-feminine bracelet is modeled after the 1881 nails the duo pulled out of their Victorian home during a renovation. It was hand-forged the ancient way, all from one piece of metal. The Cooners studied traditional blacksmith nail-making techniques to ensure the bracelet is spot-on accurate. It can be forged from solid 14-karat or 18-karat yellow or white gold and is also available in rose gold or sterling silver. Starting at $2,270

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Wildthings Fur

Prairie Wood Sprite

LA FARGE, WISCONSIN

FREEMAN, SOUTH DAKOTA

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In North country, conversations often center around the weather. If you find yourself complaining about the cold, it’s time to pull out your Wildthings Fur hat and get out there. Family-owned and -operated, the company constructs its winter wear — from hats and gloves to headbands and earmuffs — with only the finest furs and materials. All pelts are legally taken under regulated management, which promotes healthy wildlife populations.

This made-on-the-prairie Sultana’s Buffalo Tallow Blend SPF 30 Sunscreen & Moisturizing Cream honors a centuries-old tradition. The organic, velvety salve is high in omega-3 fatty acids, conjugated linoleic acid, and vitamins A, D, E and K. It absorbs readily because it is similar to the skin’s own sebum.

A material that once played an important role in the lives of Native Americans, coyote fur continues to enjoy popularity today, such as in this Russian Cossack hat. With top-grade polar-fleece lining, it will provide years of warmth and comfort. Starting at $120

Linda Schulte grew up on the prairie and subscribes to the premise that in nature, nothing is purposeless, trivial or unnecessary. Her products help heal and shield skin from the harshness of winter. The South Dakota bison this tallow comes from are grass-fed, without any hormones, antibiotics or chemicals. Just as nature — and Schulte — intended. Starting at $18

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Shore Boards OTSEGO, MINNESOTA shore-boards.com Tim Shore and his wife, Jen, were intrigued by hollow-wood stand-up paddleboards, so Tim decided to build his own. When he finished it, he paddled out into the water on a quiet morning. As he sat on the board, an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment overtook him, sparking a fire inside him to turn this craft into a business. Clients can be similarly proud to own one of these handcrafted boards built to last a lifetime. Tim walks customers through the customization process, including how to lay out the western red cedar, paulownia or Aspen wood as well as any artwork to be incorporated. And with every purchase, Shore Boards makes a donation to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for the planting of new seedlings. Starting at $1,995

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Like its namesake, Lake Vermilion, this net is in a league of its own. Equally refined and rugged, it is at home out on the stream or up on the wall. It was designed by Preston Anderson to be used, enjoyed and passed on to the next generation. Built to last from solid Wisconsin walnut, this net is large enough to accommodate trophy trout yet lightweight enough to wade with all day. Although originally crafted with the fly-fisherman in mind, it is also perfectly suited for canoe or boat fishing.

Enlightened Equipment offers engineered gear for those on the go. Whether you’re an ultralight hiker who weighs every gram of goods or a cross-country cyclist who needs something petite to pack, you’ll love the sleeping bags and quilts that Tim Marshall and his team are producing.

Anderson and his wife, Angela, have been creating unique pieces of functional art for more than a decade and continue to finesse their craft. Made from the finest materials, each piece combines the rusticity of the northwoods with the timelessness of the city.

The idea was born in 2006 when Marshall made it his mission to create camping gear that was lighter and more functional than anything available in the marketplace. Numerous experiments and variations later, he developed his most refined product. The ultimate minimalist quilt, the Enigma features a sewn-closed foot box for minimum fuss and maximum warmth. $255

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North Star Caviar WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA northstarcaviar.com Williston, North Dakota, is home to some of the tastiest caviar in the country. The premium product is harvested from the historic paddlefish, which thrives in the cold waters of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. This malossol caviar is mild in taste with tender olive to steel-gray berries that are ever so slightly salty. The all-natural, preservative-free delicacy is shipped frozen nationwide and stays fresh up to four days. Protecting the paddlefish and its spawning habitat is a top priority for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, which licenses the operation. When the season opens May 1, anglers line the riverbanks, casting over and over into the fast-running current. Some are lucky enough to catch their bounty right away, but the effort often takes a few days of pure dedication. Starting at $50

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Cold Country Vines & Wines

Carr Valley Cheese

KEWAUNEE, WISCONSIN

LA VALLE, WISCONSIN

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Cold Country Vines & Wines is a family-run vineyard producing some of the finest vinos from cold-climate cultivars. Our favorite? The Ice Wine, made from Frontenac Gris picked in November during the cold, blustery days that signal the coming of winter. Jay and Kay Stoeger debuted their company back in 2014 after years of research and hands-on experience in winemaking as well as planting and harvesting cold-climate grapes. Although Jay was indoctrinated into grape growing at an early age, it was a struggle back then to get the fruit to ripen in icy environs. While it took the industry several years to catch up to his vision, the niche category saw progress in the 1990s and interest in cold-climate wine production finally came to fruition. $49

Nestled amongst rolling hills and lush pastures, Carr Valley Cheese remains one of Wisconsin’s traditional cheese makers, famous for its fromage crafted the old-fashioned way. Owned and operated for more than a century by the Cook family, the company has won hundreds of awards over the decades. Sid Cook, a certified master cheese maker, takes pride in crafting artisanal foodstuffs and draws on the expertise of four generations of cheese makers before him. A Carr Valley original, Mobay is made in two halves: one of goat’s milk and the other of sheep’s milk. Grapevine ash is then added to the center and the outside, imparting a unique earthy flavor. Another favorite, Marisa, is made from pasture-fed sheep’s milk. Named after Cook’s daughter, this American original is mellow, complex and sweet — and a testament to this family affair. Starting at $18 per pound

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8 4 1 5 H I T S M A N L A N E INDEPENDENCE

5 6 0 K O K E S H F A R M R O A D ORONO

Private countryside retreat. Enjoy 64 acres with a tunnel from the house to the barn.

Enchanting, private 5.5-acre setting. Enjoy luxurious finishes and details. Orono schools.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,495,000

BEDROOMS: 4+

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,095,000

GEORGE W. STICKNEY & DAVID STICKNEY

GEORGE W. STICKNEY & KEVIN STICKNEY

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3 3 0 0 G R A H A M H I L L R O A D ORONO

1 6 1 0 3 C R O S B Y C O V E R O A D WAYZATA

Incredible New England–inspired home with gourmet kitchen, indoor sport court and theater.

Masterfully crafted home offering unmatched high-end finishes and details at every turn.

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 8

$2,449,000

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,995,000

GEORGE W. STICKNEY & DAVID STICKNEY

GEORGE W. STICKNEY & MIKE STEADMAN

952-476-3694 | GSTICKNEY@CBBURNET.COM

5 2 2 5 B L A K E R O A D S . EDINA

2 3 2 8 H U N T I N G T O N P O I N T R O A D W. MINNETONKA BEACH This incredibly built masterpiece offers

Impeccably maintained brick estate on 1.4 pristine acres in the heart of Edina. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$2,450,000

200 feet of premier Lake Minnetonka shoreline. BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 11

$6,299,000

GEORGE W. STICKNEY & DAVID STICKNEY

GEORGE W. STICKNEY & KEVIN STICKNEY

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4 1 4 5 T R I L L I U M L A N E E . MINNETRISTA

EXTRAORDINARY ARCHITECTURE ON LAKE MINNETONKA

This masterpiece is exquisitely sited on a premier 2-acre lot in the coveted Lake Minnetonka neighborhood Trillium Bay. The estate has classic, award-winning gardens and includes an association 40-foot yacht slip. The home is in perfect condition with 18-foot ceilings, 9-foot doors, and over-the-top details and quality throughout. An extraordinary value.

BEDROOMS: 4 $2,000,000

BATHROOMS: 6

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2120 CARRIAGE LANE ORONO Private setting with 2+ acres offering a southern vista of rolling lawn and mature gardens. Minutes from the Dakota and Luce Line trails. Mudroom and 4 garages. BEDROOMS: 4 $1,149,000

BATHROOMS: 5

BONNIE VELIE

612-964-7865 BJVELIE@CBBURNET.COM

190 SPUR CIRCLE MEDINA Spectacular estate on 4 park-like acres with quality craftsmanship by Charles Cudd. Separate guest quarters, indoor and outdoor pools, and sport court. Orono schools. BEDROOMS: 8 $2,295,000

BATHROOMS: 10

BETTY VOGT

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2 6 0 1 W. L A F A Y E T T E R O A D ORONO Spectacular Lake Minnetonka retreat. Renovations of rich detail and craftsmanship. Lakeside pool and kitchen, stunning gardens, 1,000 feet of lakeshore on private peninsula on Lafayette Bay. BEDROOMS: 5 $3,495,000

BATHROOMS: 7

GARY PETERSEN & BETTY VOGT

612-669-4231 BVOGT@CBBURNET.COM

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1 1 2 1 C H E R O K E E R O A D MEDINA

1 4 0 6 B O H N S P O I N T R O A D ORONO

Quiet country setting surrounded by forest and marshland views filled with wildlife.

Lake Minnetonka’s exclusive point features this adorable, quaint cottage with deeded dock.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$799,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,150,000

MEREDITH HOWELL

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5 8 6 0 M A P L E F O R E S T MINNETRISTA

3 3 4 5 F O X S T R E E T ORONO

Broad, long views over Upper Lake Minnetonka create a lasting impression. Shows like new.

Lake Minnetonka lot. Perfect estate setting with 4.7 acres and 205 feet of shoreline.

BEDROOMS: 4

$2,250,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,795,000

MEREDITH HOWELL

952-476-3692 | MHOWELL@CBBURNET.COM

1 5 6 0 F O X S T R E E T ORONO

7 3 6 5 H I G H W A Y 1 2 INDEPENDENCE

Exquisite 10-acre estate on private, spruce-lined lake. Architecturally designed.

An Eastern European–inspired romantic country estate. 88 acres just west of Maple Plain.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 6

$3,500,000

BATHROOMS: 6

PRICE UPON REQUEST

MEREDITH HOWELL

952-476-3692 | MHOWELL@CBBURNET.COM

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2 4 0 M I N N E T O N K A A V E N U E S . WAYZATA

5 9 6 0 B O U L D E R B R I D G E L A N E SHOREWOOD

Boutique 9-unit condo building built by John Kraemer & Sons.

Stately Colonial on 1.4 acres with a resort-like backyard, dock and association lake right.

BEDROOMS: 2+ BATHROOMS: 2+ STARTING AT $1,295,000

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,495,000

JOHN F. ADAMS

612-720-4827 | JADAMS@CBBURNET.COM

5 4 4 R I C E S T R E E T E . WAYZATA

5 2 1 N O R T H S T R E A M R O A D ORONO

Landschute-built with timeless details, rooftop deck, lake views, elevator, 2+ bedroom suites.

Beautiful 8,000-square-foot northwoods residence on 2 acres with quiet Lydiard Lake views.

BEDROOMS: 2+

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,995,000

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$2,195,000

JOHN F. ADAMS

612-720-4827 | JADAMS@CBBURNET.COM

4 6 1 0 L I N W O O D C I R C L E DEEPHAVEN

6 8 6 F E R N D A L E R O A D W. WAYZATA

Landschute-built with Old World charm. Historic boathouse on 100 feet of west-facing shore.

Private, wooded 1-acre setting with 150 feet of shore and an 8,500-square-foot home with an open flow.

BEDROOMS: 3+

BATHROOMS: 4

$3,750,000

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 7

$5,995,000

JOHN F. ADAMS

612-720-4827 | JADAMS@CBBURNET.COM

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5 2 0 0 G R E E N F A R M S R O A D EDINA

9 2 9 P O R T L A N D A V E N U E , # 2 5 0 1 MINNEAPOLIS

Brick Cape Cod nestled on a private, wooded lot offering a main-level master suite.

Spectacular penthouse with 180-degree skyline views, floor-to-ceiling windows and 14-foot ceilings.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$799,000

BATHROOMS: 2

$899,500

JOHN F. ADAMS

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4 6 1 5 / 4 6 6 5 M E R I L A N E EDINA

4 7 7 6 M A N I T O U R O A D TONKA BAY

Beautiful 1.15-acre lots in sought-after Rolling Green. To be built by John Kraemer & Sons.

Mike Sharratt masterpiece sited on 1.35 acres with a private, winding driveway and 100 feet of shoreline.

BEDROOMS: 4+ BATHROOMS: 4+ STARTING AT $2,995,000

BEDROOMS: 4

JOHN F. ADAMS

612-720-4827 | JADAMS@CBBURNET.COM

3 2 8 0 F O X S T R E E T ORONO

2 7 5 0 G A L E R O A D WOODLAND

Spectacular 5-acre build site with 220 feet of south-facing lakeshore on Maxwell Bay.

Remarkable 2.5-acre setting with commanding views, perfect elevation and 315 feet of shoreline.

$3,995,000

BEDROOMS: 6

JOHN F. ADAMS & JOHN C. ADAMS

JOHN F. ADAMS & MEREDITH HOWELL

612-720-4827 | JCADAMS@CBBURNET.COM

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BATHROOMS: 5

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$2,995,000

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28120 BOULDER BRIDGE DRIVE SHOREWOOD Privacy abounds on this 4-acre estate with westerly views of Smithtown Bay. Yesteryear’s charm, craftsmanship and thoughtful period renovations are second to none. Enjoy outdoor living with spa, Italian pizza oven, BBQ area/cabana. Private carriage house and mother-in-law suite. Meticulously cared for by owner for 40 years. It’s like your own personal Grand View Lodge within 25 minutes of downtown. BEDROOMS: 7 $3,995,000

BATHROOMS: 10

JOHN F. ADAMS

612-720-4827 JADAMS@CBBURNET.COM

12300 RIVERVIEW ROAD EDEN PRAIRIE Offering a rare opportunity to own this beautiful estate on 20.54 acres completely surrounded by nature with amazing, panoramic views outside every window. The estate sits proudly on the river bluff with 1,500+ feet of riverfront. Take privacy to a new level in this spectacular dream home or consider the options for development. This turnkey estate is the last of its kind in Eden Prairie. BEDROOMS: 4 BATHROOMS: 3 PRICE UPON REQUEST

GREGORY HUELER & CINDY REDMOND 612-701-3124 DREW.H@HUELER.COM

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1 8 4 1 0 8 T H A V E N U E N . PLYMOUTH

6 3 1 4 M A P L E R I D G E VICTORIA

Gorgeous custom home. Elegant finishes, main-level living, deeded access on Hadley Lake.

Beautifully finished home on 1+ acre overlooking 100 feet of Smithtown Bay shoreline.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,399,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,749,000

JEFFREY DEWING

612-597-0424 | JDEWING@CBBURNET.COM

2 3 2 5 PA R K L A N D S R O A D ST. LOUIS PARK

1 4 9 5 M E D I N A R O A D MEDINA

European-inspired retreat with unmatched craftsmanship and details. Walk to the city lakes.

Impeccably built and maintained estate on 24+ acres. High-end finishes. Orono Schools.

BEDROOMS: 5

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,795,000

BATHROOMS: 7

$2,149,900

JEFFREY DEWING

612-597-0424 | JDEWING@CBBURNET.COM

5 2 5 5 S T. A L B A N S B A Y R O A D SHOREWOOD

1 5 9 5 L O C U S T H I L L S C I R C L E WAYZATA

Breathtaking Landschute-built home. Private 2.5-acre estate setting. Minnetonka schools.

Gorgeous Denali-built home offering 5,750 finished square feet. Main-level living. Customize your finishes. Locust Hills

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 7

$2,095,000

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BEDROOMS: 4

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$3,085,000

JEFFREY DEWING

612-597-0424 | JDEWING@CBBURNET.COM

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8 8 7 5 B R I S T O L H I L L EDEN PRAIRIE

6 7 0 H I L L S I D E D R I V E WAYZATA

Stunning home in premier neighborhood with spectacular landscaping and main-floor master.

Estate-sized lot overlooking 43 acres of the Ferndale Marsh. Choose your builder.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$749,900

BEDROOMS: 3+

BATHROOMS: 3+

$799,000

WOODY LOVE & TRACI COLWELL

612-695-3001 | WLOVE@CBBURNET.COM

2 4 3 0 0 R I D G E P O I N T C I R C L E SHOREWOOD

5 2 8 5 S T. A L B A N S B A Y R O A D SHOREWOOD

Spectacular rambler on 1.7 acres featuring a private oasis in Shorewood.

A rare property tucked on 1.4 acres. Own a piece of the original Excelsior township.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

PRICE UPON REQUEST

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

PRICE UPON REQUEST

WOODY LOVE & TRACI COLWELL

612-695-3001 | WLOVE@CBBURNET.COM

7 5 6 4 E R I E A V E N U E CHANHASSEN

4 9 0 1 E . S U N N Y S L O P E R O A D EDINA

Exceptionally designed Stinson/Streeter home with attention to every detail. Bright and open.

An opportunity to build or remodel on 380 feet of shoreline on treasured Mill Pond.

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,395,000

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

PRICE UPON REQUEST

WOODY LOVE & TRACI COLWELL

612-695-3001 | WLOVE@CBBURNET.COM

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9 4 9 3 O LY M P I A D R I V E EDEN PRAIRIE This exceptional residence comprises 2 lots overlooking the 3rd tee of Olympic Hills Country Club. Enjoy privacy and magnificently landscaped grounds on .8 acre. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4 $1,275,000

MARYANNE GROBE

612-308-2090 MGROBE@CBBURNET.COM

2 4 7 2 PA R K V I E W D R I V E MEDINA Stunning country retreat overlooking nature lake and surrounded by 20 acres, offering complete privacy. Beautifully renovated main-level living, pool and guesthouse. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 7 $1,998,000

PATTY NAPIER AND CARRIE FLEISCHHACKER

612-860-3603 PATTYANDCARRIE@CBBURNET.COM

1521 HUNTER DRIVE MEDINA Magnificent European-inspired estate featuring imported antique detailing combined with 21st century luxury. Unparalleled privacy and stunning views. A rare opportunity. BEDROOMS: 5 BATHROOMS: 6 PRICE UPON REQUEST

MIMI MORRISON BENDICKSON

612-695-8321 MMBENDICKSON@CBBURNET.COM

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5135 MEADVILLE STREET GREENWOOD Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired home nestled on .75-acre lot in the heart of Greenwood. Prime location within walking distance of Excelsior and across the street from Lake Minnetonka. Warm and inviting with loads of history. Featuring updates throughout. Main-level living, beautiful perennial gardens and an in-ground pool for endless outdoor fun. Just steps to the LRT trail, parks and beaches. BEDROOMS: 4 $1,200,000

BATHROOMS: 4

KRISTI WEINSTOCK THE WEINSTOCK GROUP

612-309-8332 KDWEINSTOCK@CBBURNET.COM

19400 AZURE ROAD DEEPHAVEN Stunning and completely renovated Cape Cod–style home in the heart of Deephaven. Tucked away in St. Louis Bay on a private 1.68-acre lot with 146 feet of level, south-facing lakeshore on Lake Minnetonka. Lovely water views, spacious layout with an open floor plan and tasteful upgrades throughout. Opportunity to finish additional square footage above the detached garage if desired. BEDROOMS: 4 $2,495,000

BATHROOMS: 4

KRISTI WEINSTOCK THE WEINSTOCK GROUP

612-309-8332 KDWEINSTOCK@CBBURNET.COM

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4 2 9 0 W I N D W O O D W A Y MINNETONKA

5 0 1 I N D I A N H I L L R O A D CHANHASSEN

Beautiful gardens and a wooded lot featuring a tranquil setting. Main-level living.

Built with the finest attention to detail, combining warmth, simplicity and efficiency.

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 3

$725,000

BATHROOMS: 3

$769,000

KRISTI WEINSTOCK / THE WEINSTOCK GROUP

612-309-8332 | KDWEINSTOCK@CBBURNET.COM

5 6 5 0 F A I R W A Y D R I V E SHOREWOOD

1 7 9 5 5 B R E E Z Y P O I N T R O A D WOODLAND

Captivating 2-story offering main-level living and wonderful spaces for entertaining.

Cottage-style home situated on a 3-acre estate setting. Loaded with character and charm.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$810,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$890,000

KRISTI WEINSTOCK / THE WEINSTOCK GROUP

612-309-8332 | KDWEINSTOCK@CBBURNET.COM

4 2 3 8 H E AT H C O T E R O A D DEEPHAVEN

3345 HARDSCRABBLE ROAD N. MINNETRISTA One-of-a-kind property with a tranquil

Unique opportunity to own this tastefully renovated home that exudes character and charm. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,199,000

setting and panoramic views of Lake Minnetonka. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,199,000

KRISTI WEINSTOCK / THE WEINSTOCK GROUP

612-309-8332 | KDWEINSTOCK@CBBURNET.COM

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4 7 5 0 C R E E K W O O D T R A I L ORONO

1 7 9 2 0 S H A V E R S L A N E WOODLAND

Stately brick 2-story on private 5-acre setting. Updated interior spaces. Orono schools.

2.3 acres of privacy on Shavers Lake. Dramatic walls of windows. Minnetonka schools.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$799,900

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,395,000

GREGG LARSEN

612-719-4477 | GLARSEN@CBBURNET.COM

679 MINNETONKA HIGHLANDS LANE OR ONO Park-like lot setting. Approximately 150 feet

3 9 7 5 C O U N T Y R O A D 4 4 MINNETRISTA

on North Arm Bay. Open floor plan. Orono schools. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,499,900

New construction on Lake Minnetonka. Big water views and deep sunsets. Gourmet kitchen. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 8

$1,695,000

GREGG LARSEN

612-719-4477 | GLARSEN@CBBURNET.COM

2 6 0 3 W O O D B R I D G E R O A D MINNETONKA BEACH Transitional-style home with open floor plan.

1 9 7 8 0 L A K E V I E W A V E N U E DEEPHAVEN

Walls of windows overlooking Crystal Bay. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$2,995,000

Lakefront home in Cottagewood. Remodeled from top to bottom. Minnetonka schools. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$3,395,000

GREGG LARSEN

612-719-4477 | GLARSEN@CBBURNET.COM

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4 6 4 5 B A Y S I D E R O A D ORONO

3 0 6 0 N O R T H S H O R E D R I V E ORONO

Beautifully appointed home with stunning pastoral views on 2.7 acres. Main-floor owner’s suite.

Desirable Lake Minnetonka cottage features stunning sunsets and pristine, level sandy shore.

BEDROOMS: 5

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$950,000

BATHROOMS: 3

$1,850,000

KATHY SAWICKI / SAWICKI FAMILY REALTORS

612-270-1001 | KSAWICKI@CBBURNET.COM

1 2 0 S U N R I S E A V E N U E TONKA BAY

2 6 1 9 A R C O L A L A N E MINNETONKA BEACH

Impeccable 2007-built Lake Minnetonka beach house with fabulous views and hard-sand shore.

Remarkable Victorian perched above Lafayette Bay with 240 feet of lake views. 1.46 acres.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,450,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,695,000

PATTY YORKS AND ANGELA YORKS-TRUELSEN

DAVID K. WELLS III

952-334-3333 | PYORKS@CBBURNET.COM

612-925-8452 | DAVID@DKW3.COM

1 3 0 0 B R A C K E T T S P O I N T R O A D LAKE MINNETONKA One-of-a-kind, prime Bracketts Point

4 6 3 0 L I N W O O D C I R C L E DEEPHAVEN

lakeshore. 3-acre Lower Lake estate. Panoramic views.

Flawless, classic Victorian home in Cottagewood enjoys the best sunsets on Lake Minnetonka.

PRICE UPON REQUEST

BEDROOMS: 4

ELLEN DEHAVEN

ELLEN DEHAVEN / TONY JEWETT

952-476-3646 | EDEHAVEN@CBBURNET.COM

612-963-8851 | EDEHAVEN@CBBURNET.COM

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BATHROOMS: 6

$4,150,000

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5045 SHADY ISLAND ROAD SHOREWOOD Beautiful Lake Minnetonka home with charming architectural features. Lush landscape and approximately 70 feet of lakeshore. Lake views from nearly every room. BEDROOMS: 4 $895,000

BATHROOMS: 3

MARK GRIEGER

612-382-4952 MARKGRIEGER@CBBURNET.COM

27150 EDGEWOOD ROAD SHOREWOOD Remarkable Lake Minnetonka landmark setting. Unique with hard-packed sand bottom, tranquility of a private harbor and big water views. BEDROOMS: 3 $1,695,000

BATHROOMS: 4

MARK GRIEGER

612-382-4952 MARKGRIEGER@CBBURNET.COM

20545 LINWOOD ROAD DEEPHAVEN Located in the heart of Cottagewood and custom-built for modern-day living and upscale entertaining. An exceptional blend of style and function. BEDROOMS: 6 $2,295,000

BATHROOMS: 6

MARK GRIEGER 612-382-4952 MARKGRIEGER@CBBURNET.COM

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1 5 5 W E A R L A N E N . ORONO

2 0 0 8 K E N W O O D PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS

Executive home on private, wooded lot at end of cul-de-sac. Tastefully updated throughout.

Quintessential Kenwood. Historic character, modern style and prime location.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$750,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,095,000

CATHERINE WERSAL

IAN & GARY PETERSEN

612-597-6661 | CRWERSAL@CBBURNET.COM

612-910-6005 | IJPETERSEN@CBBURNET.COM

2 9 2 5 M A P L E W O O D R O A D WOODLAND

2 3 7 0 M E E T I N G S T R E E T MINNETONKA

Classic cottage-style gem on 2.9 serene acres with views of Lake Marion in coveted Woodland.

Stunning design. Mountain modern in Wayzata schools. Newly built by Aspect Design Build.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,750,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,950,000

JOHN MCWHITE & GARY PETERSEN

IAN & GARY PETERSEN

612-805-1577 | JKMCWHITE@CBBURNET.COM

612-910-6005 | PETERSENTEAM@CBBURNET.COM

4 5 7 5 M E R R Y W O O D L A N E MINNETRISTA

1 4 8 7 S H O R E L I N E D R I V E ORONO

Streeter-built home of timeless elegance. Private estate on commanding Upper Lake setting.

Rare find with breathtaking views, highly detailed finishes and a Brown’s Bay location.

BEDROOMS: 5

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,995,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$3,195,000

GARY & IAN PETERSEN

952-451-0284 | PETERSENTEAM@CBBURNET.COM

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211 BYRONDALE AVENUE WAYZATA Braes Court, an exciting new development from Wooddale Builders in downtown Wayzata, is walking distance to trendy shops, restaurants and Lake Minnetonka. Opportunity includes 6 single-family homes available fall 2016/spring 2017. Packages start at $800,000. Main-level living, open floor plans, vaulted ceilings, and luxurious finishes with 4-season porch and outdoor deck. Award-winning Wayzata School District. BEDROOMS: 3 $955,900

BATHROOMS: 3

MIKE STEADMAN & CINDY REDMOND

612-296-0900 MBSTEADMAN@CBBURNET.COM

3 9 1 9 B AVA R I A R O A D CHASKA Rare opportunity. Exceptional, one-of-a-kind estate on 270 private acres surrounded by natural beauty. Deep in the woods on a private lake, this spectacular custom home was designed by Mike Sharratt and built by Bruce Bren. Beautifully appointed, expansive rooms, separate guest quarters and more. This spectacular property includes a beautiful barn with riding arenas and outdoor tennis courts. BEDROOMS: 8 BATHROOMS: 9 PRICE UPON REQUEST

MIKE STEADMAN & CINDY REDMOND

612-296-0900 MBSTEADMAN@CBBURNET.COM

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1 8 6 9 6 M E L R O S E C H A S E EDEN PRAIRIE

1 1 0 B R U N S W I C K A V E N U E GOLDEN VALLEY

Last buildable homesite in Bearpath. Panoramic views of golf holes #12 and #14.

Custom 2016 Luxury home by Wooddale Builders. Open floor plan, large lot and quiet street.

$574,900

BEDROOMS: 5

MIKE STEADMAN

612-296-0900 | MBSTEADMAN@CBBURNET.COM

9 8 5 M E D I N A R O A D MEDINA

1 4 8 0 1 S T O N E R O A D MINNETONKA

Rare find. 35-acre estate setting. Adjoining 39 acres available. Orono School District.

Welcome to this architectural gem in an exquisite setting. Extraordinary finishes and pool.

PRICE UPON REQUEST

BEDROOMS: 4

MIKE STEADMAN

ERIK MYHRAN

612-296-0900 | MBSTEADMAN@CBBURNET.COM

612-810-3745 | EMYHRAN@CBBURNET.COM

5 5 2 0 C O M S T O C K L A N E N . PLYMOUTH

6 4 2 9 L A N D I N G S D R I V E EXCELSIOR

Impressive Creek Hill Custom Homes Parade model. Premier lot in Serenity on the Greenway.

Stunning Creek Hill model in Minnewashta Landings. Indoor gym, lake views and Minnetonka schools.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,360,000

BATHROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,399,900

$1,095,000

$1,650,000

LISA PIAZZA AND ERIK MYHRAN

ERIK MYHRAN

612-751-0976 | LISA.PIAZZA@CBBURNET.COM

612-810-3745 | EMYHRAN@CBBURNET.COM

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1 4 8 2 H U N T E R D R I V E MEDINA

EXPLORE A LIFESTYLE A place for living, for entertaining, for play. Explore the 11 acres with a 14,473-square-foot, European-inspired home with family suites, guest suites, formal and informal dining, and nanny’s apartment. A stable for your horses or your car collection. Imagine the playing in the stunning indoor pool, the immaculate outdoor pool, tennis court, bonfires on the 500 feet of lakeshore on Mooney Lake. Imagine the entertaining in the French ballroom originally found in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, perfect for formal entertaining or reenacting Beauty and the Beast as a child. Explore a lifestyle. Explore 1482 Hunter Drive.

BEDROOMS: 8

JODI DEHLI

612-669-8303 JODIDEHLI@GMAIL.COM

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BATHROOMS: 12 $4,750,000

4 4 4 5 B L U E B E L L T R A I L MEDINA

9 7 2 S H A D Y L A N E E . WAYZATA

Beautifully appointed home situated on lovely lot in Wayzata schools.

135 feet of south-facing lakeshore on Wayzata Bay. Perfect elevation. Build or remodel.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$699,900

BATHROOMS: 7

$3,900,000

SHARON MCWHITE

612-805-8616 | SMCWHITE@CBBURNET.COM

5 6 0 0 D U N D E E R O A D EDINA

6 1 5 5 C O U N T R Y L A N E GREENFIELD

Complete renovation of this beautiful Edina home. Private, classic and timeless.

Destination setting with luscious outdoor entertaining spaces on pristine 15 acres.

BEDROOMS: 5

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

PRICE UPON REQUEST

BATHROOMS: 5

PRICE UPON REQUEST

PATTY MORRIS

952-292-7125 | PAMORRIS@CBBURNET.COM

2 6 5 0 M A P L E R I D G E ORONO

4 2 1 8 W E S T A R M D R I V E SPRING PARK

Stunning cottage-style home nestled on private 1-plus-acre lot in high-demand Orono location.

Rare Lake Minnetonka twin home with stunning views of West Arm Bay. Complete remodel.

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 3

PRICE UPON REQUEST

BATHROOMS: 4

PRICE UPON REQUEST

PATTY MORRIS

612-292-7125 | PAMORRIS@CBBURNET.COM

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1905 CONCORDIA STREET ORONO Manicured grounds of Lake Minnetonka shoreline with breathtaking, west-facing vistas and magnificent sunsets. Well-cared-for home. Upgrade/expansion opportunities galore. BEDROOMS: 4 $1,389,900

BATHROOMS: 3

JEFF MARTINEAU

952-210-2626 JMARTINEAU@CBBURNET.COM

3 0 0 0 H I G H L A N D B O U L E VA R D MOUND Newer Nantucket beach home on Cooks Bay. Meticulous finishes perfectly unite with extensive upgrades and new landscaping. Open spaces offer dramatic lake views throughout. BEDROOMS: 5 $1,569,000

BATHROOMS: 7

JEFF MARTINEAU

952-210-2626 JMARTINEAU@CBBURNET.COM

5500 HUNTER STREET EDINA Superb attention to detail and high-end finishes throughout. Former Oslo model with luxurious amenities and spacious, bright rooms in demand Countryside neighborhood. BEDROOMS: 5 $1,649,000

BATHROOMS: 5

JEFF MARTINEAU

952-210-2626 JMARTINEAU@CBBURNET.COM

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1 0 9 1 0 1 S T A V E N U E N . PLYMOUTH

1 5 2 0 X A N T H U S L A N E N . PLYMOUTH

Stunning Charles Cudd town home with open, main-level living and vast wetland views.

Opportunity awaits on quiet Mooney Lake. 4+ acres and 244 feet of shoreline. Wayzata schools.

BEDROOMS: 3

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 3

$825,000

BATHROOMS: 6

$949,000

CELIA THRELKELD

MEREDITH HOWELL

612-867-8244 | CTHRELKELD@CBBURNET.COM

952-476-3692 | MHOWELL@CBBURNET.COM

1 0 1 0 W I L L O W V I E W D R I V E ORONO

2 5 8 8 S O M E R S E T L A N E ORONO

Situated on 2 acres with beautiful views of pond. Main-floor great room. Orono schools.

Elegant 2-story situated on beautiful, wooded 2.5-acre private lot. Orono schools.

BEDROOMS: 6

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$949,900

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,199,900

MARK SCHILL

612-859-4507 | MARK@MARKSCHILL.COM

1 6 4 8 3 R I N G E R R O A D WAYZATA

2 0 0 3 0 E X C E L S I O R B O U L E V A R D SHOREWOOD

Stunning renovation on private 3-acre lot near Lake Minnetonka and Ridgedale.

Enjoy the privacy of this Shorewood estate located on Foot Lake and 6+ acres.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$949,900

BATHROOMS: 6

$2,750,000

PEGGY JAMES

VALERIE QUINN RYDLAND

952-240-6488 | PJAMES@CBBURNET.COM

952-994-9923 | VQRYDLAND@CBBURNET.COM

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1 9 9 W I L L O U G H B Y W A Y E . MINNETONKA

1 1 7 1 2 F O X H A L L R O A D MINNETONKA

Enjoy panoramic wetland views only 10 minutes from downtown Minneapolis. Former model.

Somerset Ridge executive walkout end unit. Former model. 4,000 square feet. Prime location.

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 3

$569,900

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$649,000

CAROLYN H. OLSON

DARLENE ARNDT

952-270-5784 | CHOLSON@CBBURNET.COM

612-202-5917 | DARNDT@CBBURNET.COM

4 1 0 0 S K Y V I E W R O A D MINNETONKA

1 3 9 2 5 E M E R A L D R I D G E MINNETONKA

Turnkey executive living in Bearpath on the 2nd fairway of Jack Nicklaus’s golf course.

Stately New England–inspired Steiner & Koppelman–built home in close-in Minnetonka.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$998,999

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 7

$1,450,000

CHERYL HOLDS

THE ROD HELM GROUP

612-741-0904 | CAHOLDS@CBBURNET.COM

952-924-6246 | RHELM@CBBURNET.COM

3 0 5 B E R G A M O N T D R I V E MEDINA

8 7 5 T U C K B O R O U G H C O U R T MEDINA

Award-winning, well-appointed, sun-filled home with open public spaces and spectacular prairie views.

Amazing build package on 5-acre site in Wayzata schools. Custom design and models to show.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 7

$1,695,000

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,950,000

RUTH WHITNEY BOWE

BRIAN BENSON

612-805-7412 | RWBOWE@CBBURNET.COM

612-227-8629 | BKBENSON@CBBURNET.COM

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7 7 1 9 P O N D W O O D D R I V E EDINA

5 7 0 0 L O N G B R A K E T R A I L EDINA

Quality-built town home situated on a pond. Small, elegant, complex. Pristine condition.

Sophisticated renovation offering grand entertaining spaces. Exceptional open concept.

BEDROOMS: 2

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 3

$529,900

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,995,000

STELLA & JERRY REZAC

612-720-6942 | SREZAC@CBBURNET.COM

612-875-1641 | JREZAC@CBBURNET.COM

4 9 2 9 M A P L E R O A D EDINA

5 4 9 1 A N D E R S O N E S TAT E S R O A D INDEPENDENCE

Completely remodeled with only the finest quality finishes. 2 blocks to 50th & France.

A beautiful home with a private, country setting in in-demand Orono School District.

BEDROOMS: 3

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 3

$850,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$750,000

RUTH WHITNEY BOWE

ERIC AND SHARLA STAFFORD

612-805-7412 | RWBOWE@CBBURNET.COM

952-470-2575 | INFO@STAFFORDFAMILYREALTORS.COM

6 8 0 G A M E F A R M R O A D N . MINNETRISTA

1 4 7 0 2 W I L L I S T O N G L E N MINNETONKA

A picturesque setting offering state-of-the-art equestrian facilities nestled on 20+ acres.

This exquisite property rivals new construction, offering high-end amenities throughout.

BEDROOMS: 3

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 2

$875,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,099,000

ERIC AND SHARLA STAFFORD

952-470-2575 | INFO@STAFFORDFAMILYREALTORS.COM

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4581 MCDONALD DRIVE OVERLOOK STILLWATER Experience the ideal St. Croix Valley lifestyle. A refined home set on 3.45 acres with serene views and 307 feet of water frontage on Lake McDonald in Cloverdale Farm. BEDROOMS: 4 $994,900

BATHROOMS: 4

CHERYL LARSON TEAM

651-270-0213 CHERYL@CHERYLLARSON.COM

4 8 0 9 W. S U N N Y S L O P E R O A D EDINA Classic Hamptons-style home custom crafted to wrap comfortable living with superb, luxurious finishes. Private, level .53-acre yard with patio, fireplace and pergola. BEDROOMS: 6 $1,925,000

BATHROOMS: 7

MARYANNE GROBE AND LANA WICKBERG 612-308-2090 612-226-2929

4 8 1 1 B Y W O O D S T R E E T W. EDINA Distinctive, updated home in Edina’s Rolling Green neighborhood. Breathtaking interior and outdoor spaces. Easy living on one of Edina’s most coveted streets. BEDROOMS: 6 $2,749,000

BATHROOMS: 7

ELLYN WOLFENSON

612-644-3033 EJWOLFENSON@CBBURNET.COM

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7 0 4 0 L A N H A M L A N E EDINA

4 3 2 8 C O O L I D G E A V E N U E ST. LOUIS PARK

This charming brick home has been completely updated and is situated on a corner lot.

This 2-story was completely renovated in 2010. Very open floor plan with big backyard.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3

$799,900

BATHROOMS: 3

$799,000

JOHN MCWHITE

612-805-1577 | JKMCWHITE@CBBURNET.COM

1 4 2 C I R C L E A D R I V E S . WAYZATA

4 9 0 4 E . S U N N Y S L O P E R O A D EDINA

This walkout rambler by Traditions by Donnay is located in downtown Wayzata.

This midcentury modern is located in the premier Sunnyslope neighborhood on .5+ acre.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,249,000

BATHROOMS: 3

$1,495,000

JOHN MCWHITE

612-805-1577 | JKMCWHITE@CBBURNET.COM

5 7 1 7 C O N T I N E N TA L D R I V E EDINA

1 4 0 H I G H L A N D L A N E WAYZATA

Complete renovation by Traditions by Donnay in Parkwood Knolls. Right across from park.

New construction by Traditions by Donnay in Wayzata Highlands. Very high-end finishes.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,595,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,495,000

JOHN MCWHITE

612-805-1577 | JKMCWHITE@CBBURNET.COM

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1 6 3 6 W. 2 6 T H S T R E E T, # 2 MINNEAPOLIS

4 6 2 9 F R E M O N T A V E N U E S . MINNEAPOLIS

Rare condo offering near Lake of the Isles. Spacious, bright and charming upper 2 levels.

Turn-of-the-century Victorian features great detail and oversize lot near Lake Harriet.

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$965,000

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3

$995,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404 BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

2 2 0 6 PA R K L A N D S L A N E ST. LOUIS PARK

2 1 0 4 K E N W O O D PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS

Vintage Frank Lloyd Wright home on exceptionally private, natural 3.77-acre setting.

Expanded, renovated inspiration for iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show near Lake of the Isles.

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 2

$1,495,000

BEDROOMS: 7

BATHROOMS: 9

$1,995,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404 BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

4 8 0 7 S H E R I D A N A V E N U E S . MINNEAPOLIS

4 8 5 5 E . L A K E H A R R I E T PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS Superb Charles Stinson–designed,

Exquisite restoration of landmark home is ideal whether relaxing or entertaining in style. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 7

$4,650,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404 BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

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Streeter-built home overlooking Lake Harriet. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4 $4,950,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404 BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

1 8 3 2 3 B E A R PAT H T R A I L EDEN PRAIRIE

4 6 0 0 G O L F T E R R A C E EDINA

Classic floor plan with thoughtful upgrades and finishes. Great privacy and natural light.

Wonderful Edina Country Club fairway views year-round with solarium and 4-season porch.

BEDROOMS: 5

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 7

$1,349,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,365,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404

4 6 1 0 M O O R L A N D A V E N U E EDINA

6 2 2 1 PA R K W O O D R O A D EDINA

Remodeled Country Club 3-story features rich detail and terrific rooftop porch with deck.

Superior 1-owner, custom-built home reflects attention to function, comfort and detail.

BEDROOMS: 5

BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,795,000

BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,795,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404

2 M E R I L A N E EDINA

4 9 1 2 M E R I L A N E EDINA

Rolling Green gem showcases splendid views of its 2.82 acres with pond, pool and wetlands.

Prime 2.37-acre site in Rolling Green with private tennis court and pond with fountain.

BEDROOMS: 5

BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

BATHROOMS: 7

$2,975,000

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404

BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

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BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

BATHROOMS: 8

$3,999,999

BERG LARSEN GROUP 612-925-8404

BARRYANDCHAD@BERGLARSENGROUP.COM

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4 6 1 7 C H AT E L A I N T E R R A C E GOLDEN VALLEY

7 1 0 1 H O W A R D L A N E EDEN PRAIRIE

Midcentury Tyrol Hills 2-story with large, open living spaces and walkout lower level.

Meticulously maintained home with sweeping views of Bent Creek Golf Club. Newly remodeled.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3

$599,000

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$649,000

MICHAEL J. WILLE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-860-7040 | MJWILLE@CBBURNET.COM

3 3 6 B U R N T S I D E D R I V E GOLDEN VALLEY

4 1 5 1 K I N G S R O A D CHANHASSEN

Modern and updated, this custom, multilevel Tyrol Hills home is loaded with amenities.

Better-than-new features and finishes. Spacious, open design. Meticulously maintained.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$679,000

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$724,000

MICHAEL J. WILLE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-860-7040 | MJWILLE@CBBURNET.COM

6 0 1 M E A D O W L A N E S . GOLDEN VALLEY

2 5 5 I N T E R L A C H E N R O A D HOPKINS

Beautifully restored masterpiece by architect John Howe. One-of-a-kind PrairieMod design.

Build your dream home on this gorgeous .5-acre lot facing Interlachen golf course.

BEDROOMS: 5

$779,000

$895,000

MICHAEL J. WILLE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-860-7040 | MJWILLE@CBBURNET.COM

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BATHROOMS: 4

1 7 1 6 E M E R S O N A V E N U E S . MINNEAPOLIS

1 2 2 1 / 1 2 2 3 M O U N T C U R V E A V E N U E MINNEAPOLIS

Stately Lowry Hill Tudor with completely remodeled kitchen, 3-season porch and wine cellar.

Incredible investment property in the heart of Lowry Hill. Completely updated duplex.

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 4

$799,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,099,000

MICHAEL J. WILLE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-860-7040 | MJWILLE@CBBURNET.COM

2 1 2 0 K E N W O O D PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS

1 3 0 3 M O U N T C U R V E A V E N U E MINNEAPOLIS

Newly remodeled contemporary saltbox in the heart of Lowry Hill. 1 block from the lake.

Classic architecture meets 21st century lifestyle in this exquisite city residence.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 3

$1,195,000

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,995,000

MICHAEL J. WILLE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-860-7040 | MJWILLE@CBBURNET.COM

4 6 2 8 B R O W N D A L E A V E N U E EDINA

5 3 2 1 H A L I F A X A V E N U E S . EDINA

Stately Country Club home blends 1920s charm with completely updated, modern features.

Beautiful home with exceptional details near Arden Park. A few blocks from 50th & France.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,099,000

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,399,000

MICHAEL J. WILLE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-860-7040 | MJWILLE@CBBURNET.COM

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7 6 2 O S C E O L A A V E N U E ST. PAUL

5 1 0 G R O V E L A N D A V E N U E , # 4 0 4 MINNEAPOLIS

Great Crocus Hill location. Renovated 3rd-floor guest suite. Extra deep, landscaped lot.

Sophisticated, sunny and updated 2-bedroom plus den corner unit.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3

$649,900

BEDROOMS: 2

BATHROOMS: 2

$840,000

FRAN & BARB DAVIS

612-925-8408 | FDAVIS@CBBURNET.COM

1 0 7 1 3 S O N O M A R I D G E EDEN PRAIRIE

9 9 9 7 D E L L R O A D EDEN PRAIRIE

Spectacular high-end finishes. Gorgeous porch. Cudd-built 2-story.

Magnificent Minnesota River Bluffs retreat. Stunning craftsmanship. Main-level walkout floor plan.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$939,900

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

PRICE UPON REQUEST

ANNETTE O’CONNOR

JODY PETERSON LODGE

612-916-9666 | ANNETTE@AMOCONNOR.COM

612-386-8699 | JPETERSONLODGE@CBBURNET.COM

1 1 4 5 0 A S P E N W A Y MINNETONKA

1 0 3 1 7 4 T H S T R E E T VICTORIA

Highest quality Streeter & Associates construction with expansive, secluded wetland vistas.

Nantucket charm, dream kitchen and main-floor sport court all overlooking Schutz Lake.

BEDROOMS: 4+

BATHROOMS: 4

$879,900

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,250,000

JOSH ZUEHLKE / THE WILLE GROUP

612-735-2345 | JWZUEHLKE@CBBURNET.COM

612-735-2345 | JWUEHLKE@CBBURNET.COM

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11240 ALAMEDA COURT INVER GROVE HEIGHTS Spectacular custom-built home on 4 acres. Great entertaining spaces, cook’s kitchen, butler’s pantry with wine cabinet, home theater, pool house with spa, tennis court. BEDROOMS: 7

BATHROOMS: 8 $1,995,000

FRAN & BARB DAVIS

612-925-8408 FDAVIS@CBBURNET.COM

1700 MOUNT CURVE AVENUE MINNEAPOLIS Built in 1961 and thoughtfully updated in 2010, this landmark on Minneapolis’s premier street includes original details like a striking atrium and curved ceramic brick walls. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 3 $2,300,000

FRAN & BARB DAVIS

612-925-8408 FDAVIS@CBBURNET.COM

1 6 4 0 K E N W O O D PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS Exceptional sun-filled twin home overlooking Kenwood Park. Open floor plan, 10-foot ceilings, sunroom with fireplace, Brazilian hardwood flooring, professional appliances. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4 $1,495,000

BOB KESSLER + JOSE KOSAR

612-386-6148 RKESSLER@CBBURNET.COM

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5 2 4 7 W A S H B U R N A V E N U E S . MINNEAPOLIS

3 5 0 7 W. 2 2 N D S T R E E T MINNEAPOLIS

Exceptional Victorian with amusement room, main-floor family room and 3rd-floor suite.

Dynamic contemporary with walls of glass, open concept, private patios and water views.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 5

$949,900

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,495,000

BRUCE BIRKELAND GROUP

612-414-3957 | BBIRKELAND@CBBURNET.COM

4 8 8 8 W. H A R R I E T PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS

4 3 4 5 E . L A K E H A R R I E T B O U L E VA R D MINNEAPOLIS Romantic Old World Lake Harriet

Lake Harriet Mediterranean home with fantastic entertaining spaces, theater and courtyard. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,599,000

estate with rich architectural detailing and grand spaces. BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 7

$2,495,000

BRUCE BIRKELAND GROUP

612-414-3957 | BBIRKELAND@CBBURNET.COM

4 8 5 0 W. L A K E H A R R I E T PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS

2 4 2 4 W. L A K E O F T H E I S L E S PA R K W A Y MINNEAPOLIS Romantic European estate. Gracious

Exceptional Lake Harriet Tudor with modern amenities, lush outdoor gardens and lake views. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$2,995,00

spaces, modern improvements, panoramic water views. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 7

$3,995,000

BRUCE BIRKELAND GROUP

612-414-3957 | BBIRKELAND@CBBURNET.COM

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3 1 0 3 M A P L E W O O D R O A D WOODLAND

7 2 G R O V E L A N D T E R R A C E MINNEAPOLIS

Soaring interior volume, large owner’s wing, indoor swimming pool and private 2-acre lot.

Grand Kenyon/Bradstreet Tudor with exceptional details and impressive public spaces.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 7

BATHROOMS: 7

$1,965,000

BATHROOMS: 7

$1,995,000

BRUCE BIRKELAND GROUP

612-414-3957 | BBIRKELAND@CBBURNET.COM

6 4 0 0 PA R K W O O D R O A D EDINA

6 4 2 9 I N D I A N H I L L S R O A D EDINA

Private estate on stunning corner lot with pond. Chef’s kitchen, wine cellar and theater.

Majestic Italian stone villa. Soaring interior volume, owner’s wing, elevator and pool.

BEDROOMS: 6

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 9

$3,695,000

BATHROOMS: 9

$3,750,000

BRUCE BIRKELAND GROUP

612-414-3957 | BBIRKELAND@CBBURNET.COM

1 3 6 4 5 V A L L E Y C R E E K T R A I L S . AFTON

2 8 2 5 L I T T L E O R C H A R D W A Y ORONO

One-of-a-kind, private lodge estate with exceptional design and meticulous craftsmanship.

European-inspired estate with luxurious owner’s suite, theater, guesthouse and much more.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$3,995,000

BATHROOMS: 10

$11,900,000

BRUCE BIRKELAND GROUP

612-414-3957 | BBIRKELAND@CBBURNET.COM

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8301 CREEKSIDE CIRCLE, #750 BLOOMINGTON Elegant one-of-a-kind condo with superb views. Sophisticated design and high-end finishes. BEDROOMS: 1 BATHROOMS: 2 $799,900

1 0 7 9 6 P U R D E Y R O A D EDEN PRAIRIE Experience extraordinary architectural design and impeccable craftsmanship with nature views. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$899,900

MARILEE ANDERSON

HELGESON / PLATZKE REAL ESTATE GROUP

612-701-6459 | MMANDERSON@CBBURNET.COM

952-949-4786 | RMPLATZKE@CBBURNET.COM

1 8 7 4 3 B E A R PAT H T R A I L EDEN PRAIRIE

1 8 8 0 0 M E L R O S E C H A S E EDEN PRAIRIE

Exceptional detail inside and out. Newly remodeled 2-story walkout in Bearpath community.

Urban glam oasis in Bearpath. Indoor sport court, incredible landscaping and fairway views.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,375,000

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 6

$1,499,900

HELGESON / PLATZKE REAL ESTATE GROUP

952-974-3466 | BHELGESON@CBBURNET.COM

952-949-4786 | RMPLATZKE@CBBURNET.COM

1 8 3 5 5 N I C K L A U S W A Y EDEN PRAIRIE

9 9 8 1 D E E R B R O O K D R I V E CHANHASSEN

Custom 1-story with private en-suite for all 6 bedrooms. Sweeping southeast water views.

Pristine 8,400-square-foot rambler on a 10-plus-acre wooded estate with Minnesota River Valley views.

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 8

$1,999,999

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 7

$2,090,000

HELGESON / PLATZKE REAL ESTATE GROUP

952-974-3466 | BHELGESON@CBBURNET.COM

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1 4 9 0 5 W H I T E O A K D R I V E BURNSVILLE Outstanding Summit Oaks home with abundant light and an exceptional vaulted family room. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$519,000

1 0 7 6 3 LY N D A L E B L U F F S T R A I L BLOOMINGTON Luxurious detached town home overlooking the bluffs. Practically brand-new construction. BEDROOMS: 3 BATHROOMS: 3 $758,500

DAVID TONNESON

JUDY SHIELDS

612-308-7044 | DITONNESON@CBBURNET.COM

952-221-1723 | JSHIELDS@CBBURNET.COM

1 1 4 7 2 M O U N T C U R V E R O A D EDEN PRAIRIE

5 3 2 4 O L I V E R A V E N U E S . MINNEAPOLIS

Like-new on 6th hole of Olympic Hills Golf Club. Completely updated 2-story walkout.

New construction steps to Lake Harriet and Minnehaha Creek. Open concept with modern touches.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$695,000

BATHROOMS: 4 $849,000

DAVID AZBILL GROUP

612-925-8402 | DAVID@DAVIDAZBILLGROUP.COM

2 8 2 5 C A B A L I N E T R A I L MEDINA

6 9 0 9 D A K O TA T R A I L EDINA

Stunning, like-new brick Colonial on 6-acre estate setting in Tuckborough Farm.

Spectacular Indian Hills lakeshore. Sharratt-designed masterpiece. Main-floor living.

BEDROOMS: 6

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 5

$1,495,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,799,999

DAVID AZBILL GROUP

STEVE SCHMITZ

612-925-8402 | DAVID@DAVIDAZBILLGROUP.COM

952-484-6045 | STEVESCHMITZ@SELLSHOUSES.COM

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6 7 0 6 C H E R O K E E T R A I L W. EDEN PRAIRIE

5 1 0 3 1 6 8 T H S T R E E T W. LAKEVILLE

Meticulous home with premium granite, travertine and fixtures. Professionally landscaped.

Craftsman with walk-in closets and attached baths. Main-floor office and community pool.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$599,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$599,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

1 7 9 2 0 1 7 9 T H T R A I L W. LAKEVILLE

1 9 3 6 4 J U D I C I A L R O A D PRIOR LAKE

Renovated main floor with custom kitchen and bar. All bedrooms with walk-ins and baths.

Custom-built home on 4.75 acres with high-end finishes, patio and full in-law apartment.

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$650,000

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$799,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

2 5 3 5 1 W I L L O W C O U R T NEW PRAGUE

1 4 6 2 5 W I L D S V I E W N W PRIOR LAKE

Country estate with 155 feet of lakeshore on .76 acre. Great room and gourmet kitchen.

Custom-built walkout with 5 bedrooms up, 2 fireplaces, pool and 4-plus-car garage.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 6

$799,900

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

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BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$819,900

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

1 5 7 8 2 C O B B L E S T O N E L A K E PA R K W A Y APPLE VALLEY Beautiful 2-story with open layout, hardwood and 2 porches. Community pool and amenities. BEDROOMS: 4 BATHROOMS: 4 $550,000

7 2 0 I N T E R L A K E N VICTORIA Updated and spacious walkout on a large, private lot. Built-ins and a main-level office. BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$565,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

1 3 8 4 0 C L A R E D O W N S W A Y ROSEMOUNT

5 0 9 H O L LY A V E N U E ST. PAUL

Great home in Evermoor with 4 bedrooms on the same level, pool and beautiful backyard.

Updated brownstone with 4 beautiful levels. Hardwood floors plus a private rooftop deck.

BEDROOMS: 5

BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$600,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

BATHROOMS: 5

$650,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

1 0 7 2 1 W AT E R S E D G E L A N E WOODBURY

3 6 0 1 L E R I V E W A Y CHASKA

Gorgeous, upgraded home with 7 fireplaces, loft, and walkout with theater and wet bar.

Stunning home with stone fireplace, theater, pool and 180 feet of lakeshore on 1-acre lot.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 6

BATHROOMS: 5

$999,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

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BATHROOMS: 5

$2,350,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

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2 3 4 ½ A V E N U E VANCE CREEK TOWNSHIP, WISCONSIN 36-acre hobby farm with professional horse barn, outbuildings and newly remodeled home. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 5

$649,000

6 8 2 5 K A N E A V E N U E CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIP Gorgeous Arts and Crafts–style 1-story walkout with custom woodwork and gourmet kitchen. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4

$729,000

DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

1 8 6 9 5 L E G E N D S C L U B C I R C L E CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIP Custom 1-story walkout on

1 8 8 9 6 B R O O K W O O D R O A D CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIP Amazing 9,500-plus-square-foot custom

Legends Golf Club with a 4-plus-car garage on 1.95 acres. BEDROOMS: 5 BATHROOMS: 4 $775,000 DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

home on Legends Golf Club. Theater and indoor sport court. BEDROOMS: 4 BATHROOMS: 7 $1,749,000 DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

9 1 3 0 1 9 5 T H S T R E E T E . CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIP Unbelievable 9,000-plus-square-foot

4 7 5 8 5 C H A P I N W O O D R O A D CABLE, WISCONSIN Historic Chapinwood estate offers 24

custom home with guesthouse, pool, tennis court and more. BEDROOMS: 5 BATHROOMS: 8 $2,200,000 DANIEL & JULIE DESROCHERS, DESROCHERS REALTY GROUP 612-554-4773 | DANIEL@DREALTYG.COM

acres of total wooded seclusion on Diamond Lake.

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BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 5

$2,250,000

SHARON O’FLANNIGAN 651-430-7759 | SOFLANNIGAN@CBBURNET.COM

2 0 2 8 6 S T. C R O I X T R A I L N . SCANDIA 6 acres of seclusion surround this beautifully conceived rambler featuring lovely outdoor spaces with 2 4-car garages for the car enthusiast. Impeccable. BEDROOMS: 3

BATHROOMS: 4 $899,000

SHARON O’FLANNIGAN

651-430-7759 SOFLANNIGAN@CBBURNET.COM

465 DIVISION AVENUE ROBERTS, WISCONSIN Beautiful setting overlooking Kinnickinnic River Valley for 65-acre farm with heated and cooled barn and new home. 15 minutes from river crossing at Hudson. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3 $999,000

SHARON O’FLANNIGAN

651-430-7759 SOFLANNIGAN@CBBURNET.COM

12159 QUAIL AVENUE LANE N. STILLWATER Luxury retreat offering privacy, distinctive design, sophisticated styling with superior quality for buyer who desires seclusion within a country setting. BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 5 $1,950,000

SHARON O’FLANNIGAN

651-430-7759 SOFLANNIGAN@CBBURNET.COM

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4 R A P P FA R M B O U L E VA R D NORTH OAKS An open-concept plan with 2 casual dining spaces, prep pantry, sunroom and front hallway with powder bath that connects family foyer to front foyer. BEDROOMS: 5 $749,900

BATHROOMS: 5

ALAN KORTAN

612-559-8489 ALAN@CBBURNET.COM

8 0 R A P P FA R M L A N E NORTH OAKS An open, formal dining room communicates with the great room. Vistas to woods and wetlands on cul-de-sac lot. Private North Oaks roads, trails, parks and ball fields. BEDROOMS: 5 $959,900

BATHROOMS: 5

ALAN KORTAN

612-559-8489 ALAN@CBBURNET.COM

1 0 R A P P FA R M B O U L E VA R D NORTH OAKS A Hanson Builders design with indoor sport court on cul-de-sac lot. Located in the Rapp Farm neighborhood of North Oaks featuring a private pool and clubhouse campus. BEDROOMS: 5 $1,165,900

BATHROOMS: 6

ALAN KORTAN

612-559-8489 ALAN@CBBURNET.COM

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4736 MCDONALD DRIVE PLACE BAYTOWN TOWNSHIP Cloverdale Farm

9 3 9 3 5 5 T H S T R E E T N . LAKE ELMO

walkout rambler with Mediterranean flair.

Best entertaining home in Lake Elmo. Updated throughout. 5+ acres, trails and golf green.

BEDROOMS: 3

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3

$649,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$960,000

PAT MCGRATH

651-653-2449 | PMCGRATH@CBBURNET.COM

5 9 1 W O O D L A N D D R I V E MAHTOMEDI

1 8 H I L L A R Y F A R M L A N E GEM LAKE

New DeWitt model. Masterfully designed rambler with beautiful entertaining spaces.

Only 1 year old. Former Artisan Home Tour model in Hillary Farm. Truly spectacular.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 4

$1,048,800

BATHROOMS: 3

$1,225,000

PAT MCGRATH

651-653-2449 | PMCGRATH@CBBURNET.COM

8 9 3 1 I T A S C A T R A I L N . GRANT

1 R E D F O R E S T L A N E NORTH OAKS

Beautiful family home in premier neighborhood. 5+ acres, pool/patio, Mahtomedi schools.

Classic French Country–style estate loaded with magnificent detail. True masterpiece.

BEDROOMS: 6

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21645 BOULDER CREEK DRIVE CREDIT RIVER TOWNSHIP Simply stunning walkout rambler on 2.5-acre cul-de-sac lot. Rich and casual elegance with plenty of room to entertain friends and family. Every detail was thoughtfully designed and flawlessly finished. Windows abound, bringing in abundant natural light up and down. Enjoy panoramic views of ponds and wetlands. 7-car garage for the car enthusiast or hobbyist. BEDROOMS: 4 $1,274,500

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1 WINDY RIDGE PLACE MENDOTA Built in 2004, this award-winning Pacific Northwest industrial farmhouse designed by Albertsson Hansen boasts uncompromised quality and spectacular skyline views of both downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. Highlighting architectural detail along with incredible entertaining spaces, this rare opportunity awaits. Convenient location with easy access to freeways and MSP International Airport. BEDROOMS: 5 $1,950,000

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1 6 1 6 0 1 9 9 T H S T R E E T N . SCANDIA

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Hilltop views of the St. Croix Valley from private home set on 6.3 acres with horse barn.

James Mulvey boutique bed and breakfast offered as a business or private vintage home.

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8 2 0 P R O M O N T O R Y P L A C E EAGAN

2 7 7 C E D A R D R I V E W. HUDSON, WISCONSIN

The Woodlands. Complete remodel, library, kitchen, baths, hardwood floors, guest suite.

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1 B A L D E A G L E P O I N T WHITE BEAR LAKE

9 F E N L E A C I R C L E DELLWOOD

Spectacular sunsets and breathtaking, panoramic Bald Eagle Lake views on a private point.

Impressive walkout with incredible architectural detailing and quality. Private pond setting.

BEDROOMS: 4

BATHROOMS: 3

$849,900

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$875,000

SANDY ESPE SORENSON

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5 2 9 1 W. B A L D E A G L E B O U L E V A R D WHITE BEAR LAKE Relaxing 2008 custom-built

5 2 6 7 W. B A L D E A G L E B O U L E V A R D WHITE BEAR LAKE Inviting 2005-built Bald Eagle

Mission-style on Bald Eagle Lake. Quality defines this home. BEDROOMS: 4 BATHROOMS: 4 $899,000

Lake home. Open floor plan, beautiful finishes, .5 acre lot. BEDROOMS: 5 BATHROOMS: 4 $1,050,000

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2 1 5 0 C H A R LT O N R O A D SUNFISH LAKE

1 S U N F I S H L A N E SUNFISH LAKE

Stunning 6-acre estate designed by Edwin Lundie on the shore of Sunfish Lake.

Enchanting 7.8-acre estate with a guest cottage and 350 feet of shoreline on Sunfish Lake.

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$2,249,000

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$2,390,000

TERI KAMPMEYER & SARAH KINNEY

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1 6 7 9 0 I S L A N D A V E N U E LAKEVILLE

7 9 7 S T O N E B R O O K E D R I V E SHAKOPEE

Exquisite McDonald-built home showcasing contemporary finishes and open, inviting spaces.

Simply exquisite walkout rambler on Stonebrooke Golf Course.

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Architecturally significant masterpiece on a private .33 acre. Just steps to the river.

Open, spacious 2-story created for today’s lifestyle. Award-winning Mahtomedi schools.

BEDROOMS: 4

BEDROOMS: 5

BATHROOMS: 4

$845,000

BATHROOMS: 4

$649,900

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Classic, open and spacious 2-story with quality amenities. Convenient to both downtowns.

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$1,495,000

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1 7 1 R E D O A K S D R I V E VADNAIS HEIGHTS Fantastic 2-story with backyard oasis

2 1 4 E A S T B A N K C O U R T N . HUDSON, WISCONSIN Exceptional Mike McGuire St. Croix

and in-ground pool nestled on beautiful, treed lot.

River condo. Private beach. 34-foot boat slip included.

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4849 OLSON LAKE TRAIL N. LAKE ELMO Lovely, local, lakeshore living. Two

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Douglas Flanders & Associates, 194, 208 Eminent Interior Design, 272

Erickson Outdoor Lighting, 99

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Gabberts Design Studio & Fine Furniture, 47 Galleria, 4–5

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Gordon James Construction, 245 Habitation Design, 257 Hagstrom Builder, 51 HealthPartners, 35

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Hendel Homes, 37 HighTower Advisors, 65 Historic Studio, 65 Hotel Ivy, 10–11

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Nash Frame Design, 208 Nob Hill, 194 Nor-Son, 88

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Smuckler Architectural Custom Homes, 239 Spacecrafting, 205

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Warming Trends Luxury textiles and right-sized furniture play a key part in creating cozy spaces. | BY JULIE KENDRICK

ust because a home is small doesn’t mean it can’t be warm, inviting and downright fabulous. On-point finishes make all the difference. “Many people, especially baby boomers, are downsizing, and they want elegant spaces with premium finishes,” explains Kevin Kenney, president and CEO of KDR Designer Showrooms. These right-sized residences often feature luxurious textiles for furnishings, draperies and bedding. “The luxury textile market is the hottest category we have right now,” he notes. The Minneapolis showroom carries a full range of iconic textile brands, including Colefax and Fowler, Cowtan & Tout, Jane Churchill, Zimmer + Rohde, and more. “High-end wall coverings are also on-trend,” Kenney says. “We’re seeing natural elements like reeds, grasses, jute, hemp, banana leaves and even shells incorporated. They add depth and texture, and they’re light years away from the sponge-faux-paint trend of 10 years ago.” “There’s also a major shift in the size and scale of furniture as aging baby boomers seek furniture that’s smaller and easier to get in and out of,” he explains. Also in vogue is motion furniture: seating that can recline, rock and swivel. Don’t be fooled: These are nothing like Grandpa’s recliner. “They’re high-end products with beautiful lines and great mechanics, and they really pop when covered in luxury textiles,” Kenney says. If you’re ready to explore the colorful world of luxury textiles, the place where it all happens is the KDR showroom. “Feel free to bring along your design professional, but if you aren’t currently working with someone, you’re still welcome,” Kenney notes. “We offer great advice about how to get started.” With furnishings and accessories set in vignettes to spark creativity, the atmosphere is pure inspiration.

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Blackbox Container Studios is pioneering the North’s tiny-homes movement. | BY HANNAH FOX

t’s no news that Shane Schaaf, owner and creator of Earthscape Stoneworks + Design, is the go-to stonemason in the Twin Cities. But what some might not know is that he is also the creative force behind Blackbox Container Studios. With more than 15 years in the landscaping and design business, Schaaf uses his experience and inventive eye to create tactical, versatile structures. Picture a space entirely customized to your needs, whether it’s off-the-grid living, a beachfront home, a backyard office, a cozy add-on or anything in between. There are options for electricity, water, solar power and off-grid sewer systems, and the ability to adjust the exact size of the space allows owners endless possibilities. It sounds too good to be true, but for Schaaf, it’s just another day at the office. He was intrigued by the challenge of taking something many people consider harsh — new and repurposed shipping containers — and transforming them into warm, comfortable living spaces. Available in two standard sizes (20 and 40 feet long), the structures are made of Cor-Ten steel, which protects the fully insulated units from sea salt when being shipped overseas. On top of that, security panels that slide over the windows and doors keep the containers secure when unoccupied. With features like these,

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there’s no question that these structures can withstand the Northern elements. “Look at the potential,” says Schaaf, who believes customization is key. “Look what you can do with a very simple, humble structure.” Blackbox Container Studios employs natural materials like reclaimed wood and stone to finish a final space, creating a warm yet modern environment. Each unit can come equipped with a wood-burning fireplace that swings out on the cargo door as well as a stair and bracket system that allows for a staircase, bike rack, deer stand or anything else imaginable. The structures are stackable, meaning clients have the opportunity to add additional rooftop space or even another container. For those interested in the concept, Schaaf says it is crucial to consider the exterior landscape. “The outdoor living is just as important as the inner space when you have a small structure,” he explains. He adds that clients have converted the upper area of their container into a rooftop terrace and garden for another way to enjoy the outdoors and utilize the space to the max. These unconventional living spaces have been making their way around the globe, from Container City in London to Downtown Container Park in Las Vegas, and now are popping up closer to home. With a business suite and other projects in the works, Schaaf, whose container studio is located in Uptown Minneapolis, continues to pioneer this concept in the North region.

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Game of Tones

Contemporary and traditional learn to play nice in a remodeled Tudor.

atrick Cromer will tell you he’s an old-school kind of guy. That’s why he was attracted to a charming 1928 Tudor in one of Minneapolis’s most coveted neighborhoods overlooking picturesque Lake of the Isles. But when he began making plans to overhaul the home’s tiny, cavernous kitchen, build a sleek bar area and open up the family room to the backyard, two notably different styles emerged: contemporary and traditional. “I didn’t really look at style,” Cromer notes. “I wanted to make things visually interesting, and a lot of unusual pieces caught my eye. I’m a bachelor, not a designer.” The homeowner looked to Amy E. Haglin Interior Design for

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help in that department and recruited Erotas Building Corporation to lead the remodeling efforts. The team agreed that the best way to bring together the two styles without causing whiplash was to replicate classic Tudor edge work in combination with arched, molded openings found in other parts of the home. “The biggest wow factor of this project is how the design detailing of the newly remodeled kitchen and family room fit within the architectural era of the home,” says Erotas President and Owner Tom Hendrickson. “Out with the old, white melamine cabinetry, skylights and choppy layout, and in with the black-stained, paneled cabinetry, triple-paned awning windows and open, functional layout.”

The dark wood was Cromer’s idea. The challenge for designer Amy Haglin was making a large, black kitchen seem homey and inviting. “He wanted that comfortable feel, so we chose custom, black-stained cherry cabinets with a rubbed-through finish,” she explains. “That rich, warm color that comes through makes it more traditional. With the hardware, fixtures and appliances, we incorporated elements of nickel, stainless steel, brass, copper and bronze. We mixed everything, and it works beautifully.” Another design technique at play? Using visual movement to bridge different styles. Case in point: The kitchen’s elegant granite countertops accentuate the natural movement of the stone, and the bar features a dramatic wall of textural glass tile showcasing floating black shelves. A cozy seating area situated in front of the bar is highlighted by an installation of hand-blown glass globes suspended from the ceiling. For the family room, the aesthetic is clean and simple. New floor-to-ceiling sliding doors bring the outside in and extend the space. To achieve this look, the Erotas team reconstructed walls, changed the foundation structure and added structural beams. Heated floors and triple-paned doors make for a comfortable, conditioned living space to enjoy year-round. Hendrickson of Erotas succinctly sums it up: “Blending traditional and contemporary styles, we were able to create the architecturally timeless environment of the homeowner’s dreams.”

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Modern Marvel

A stunning lakefront home perfectly reflects the woman who designed it. | BY ELIZABETH FOY LARSEN

shii Vrohidis believes an abode should tell the story of its owners. So when it came time for the architectural designer and her husband to build their dream home on the south shore of Minneapolis’s Lake Calhoun, she had a novel’s worth of ideas. First and foremost, the 2,400-square-foot house, which sits high on a corner lot that’s only 25 feet wide, needed to fit organically into the landscape. It also needed to highlight the intrinsic beauty of every artisan detail Vrohidis so painstakingly chose. “I like to see the history in things,”she says. “I want to see the grain in the wood and the bumps in the floor.” To achieve that sense of history, she scouted the globe for inspiration and building materials. The exterior stone — a custom blend of hand-cut silver Fond du Lac and charcoal stack ledge, which is repeated on an interior wall — is from a quarry in the North region. The powder-room sink was crafted by a monk in Thailand. The bathroom walls are Moroccan plaster, which is coated with traditional olive-oil soap. A banister features a chairlift cable from Lutsen. And Vrohidis designed and fashioned most of the light fixtures herself, many with objects culled from her travels. Those are just the finishes. To boost insulation values, the designer had the concrete for the floors mixed with a special 3M product never before used for a residential project. And she

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incorporated solar energy, cleverly tucking away panels on the home’s flat roof, as well as a reverse-osmosis system that recycles water through the property’s rain garden. In fact, the designs involved so many innovative touches that finding a builder to execute the boundary-pushing vision was bound to present a challenge — further complicated by the fact that Vrohidis was living in Dubai throughout the process. After interviewing several Twin Cities builders, she chose Edina-based John Kraemer & Sons, who didn’t flinch when they received spec sheets that needed to be translated. The project turned into an extremely productive and satisfying partnership. “I couldn’t have done this without them,” notes Vrohidis. To ensure they were always on the same page with the homeowner, the builder hosted regular Skype sessions and got into the habit of making decisions via text. The stunning result has an appeal that extends well beyond its owners. A photo of the house’s exterior was the lead image on the home-design website Houzz for two weeks straight, leading to highball offers from potential buyers — all of which were turned down. “The house is priceless to them,” says John Kraemer, the company’s vice president and director of sales and marketing. “It was wonderful working with a client with such a unique vision.”

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Jennifer Ball, Allied ASID, senior interior designer

GABBERTS DESIGN STUDIO & FINE FURNITURE Most memorable project:

A cattle ranch in Viroqua, Wisconsin. It was a complete renovation where I was challenged to maximize functional spaces within an existing footprint. The clients loved the overall result as it really reflected their personal style. We incorporated family antiques and heirlooms along with an updated rustic yet elegant style.

Single upgrade that makes a huge impact:

Paint and wallpaper! Paint is the best and the least expensive way to make a huge impact and change the whole look and feel of a space. I also love to incorporate wallpaper into a home to create a unique style.

A classic that will never go out of style:

Painted woodwork. It adds a beautiful warmth and depth to any room.

Top tip:

Find a team of professionals, including a builder, architect and designer, who are willing to collaborate with you to create and execute your overall vision. Everyone brings a unique perspective and greatly contributes to the overall design.

Trend you love:

I love the rustic mountain-living style that is trending right now. I love that you can mix so many design elements together, such as stone, rough timber and any number of metal finishes. It is warm, relaxing and always inviting.

Trend you’re over:

White subway tile — I’m over it! However, if the client can’t live without it, I always find a way to give it a fresh look.

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Your company’s trademark:

When our clients walk into their home at the end of the day, they think, “This is who I am. This is where I want to be.” We want every client to experience that spectacular feeling.

A classic that will never go out of style: A well-scaled bergère chair.

Single upgrade that makes a huge impact: Great lighting makes a huge impact in any space. It sets a mood, makes it work.

Easiest way to get inspired:

Think first about how you want to live your life, about the things you do now or want to do that support you and bring you joy. Make a list. Look at environments around you, on the Internet, in magazines, while you are traveling. Notice what spaces make you happy. Take photos. Take notes about what you like about a space and how you feel when you are there. With all of this in hand, you have the inspiration for a room or home.

Trend you love:

I’m loving all the Cuba references we are seeing now, with fun color and art deco.

Trend you’re over: Conforming to trends.

Top tip:

Set a budget at the beginning. Don’t be shy about sharing your budget. And set aside a contingency fund for something that you love and have to have.

Secret to great design:

Designing a space that lifts people up and allows them to live their best life — then you’ve achieved something.

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Robb Whittlef, president and founder

HISTORIC STUDIO Secret to great design:

The secret to great design is always the mix. Modern objects in juxtaposition with antiquities, or priceless pieces next to things that were picked up for nearly nothing. Whether they be objects or people, things of discord that find their way to harmony are always the foundation of greatness.

Top tip:

Don’t do mediocre. Now, that is not in reference to how much you spend; rather, it’s about making sure your home represents who you are, what you value and how you want to communicate your life’s journey through the spaces in which you live.

Easiest way to get inspired:

Surround yourself with people who love design. The reality is that if you want to be inspired by a great athlete, artist or corporate leader, you find ways to be around them, to learn from them. A designer that is there simply to sell you stuff is wasting your time — and your money. They should be inspiring you with knowledge that merits the investments you are making.

Common misconception:

That a designer’s goal is to spend all your money. I’ve worked with people worth billions as well as people struggling to get by, but the guiding principle is always the same: to make the best use of the funds they have determined is their budget.

Trend you love:

Site-specific artwork created for residential installation.

Trend you’re over:

The destruction of historically significant architecture and interiors.

Your company’s trademark:

Honesty. Authenticity. And the understanding of how fortunate we are to work with the incredible families and individuals that we have as clients.

A classic that will never go out of style:

Original art. Whether it be focused on a specific genre or just works of people you’ve met along the path of your life and travels, art will always be the single greatest vehicle to communicate yourself in an interior.

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TWIST INTERIOR DESIGN

Sandy LaMendola, owner and principal designer

Easiest way to get inspired:

Do what you’ve already been doing — thinking, dreaming, imagining — but now with a paper trail. Collect images, make lists, start a Pinterest board. If you have a designer who’s excited about your goals, that person will translate your ideas and desires into actual design solutions.

Trend you love:

Refurbishing old buildings into useful new ones. This isn’t a trend so much as a movement that involves honoring great interior and exterior features and incorporating them into environments that are soulful and fresh.

Trend you’re over:

I’m not much for trends, actually. They seize on specific design features and wring them out, inevitably date-stamping your project. Better to exercise restraint and draw on elements you like to achieve a style that truly represents the client.

Your company’s trademark:

Twist Interior Design provides a comprehensive experience for our clientele: refined design solutions, organization and logistics, and sound business practices. Collaboration is integral. By expressing the personality of the client while respecting the architect’s vision and the contractor’s craft, we not only achieve great results, we make getting there as enjoyable as living there.

Single upgrade that makes a huge impact:

Lighting, both architectural and decorative. It improves function, illuminates space and creates ambiance. The impact can be transformative.

A classic that will never go out of style:

Black and white, grass cloth, fantastic art, hand craftsmanship, refined elegance — they’re all timeless.

Secret to great design:

Listening first. Then doing the work: researching, concepting, following through and collaborating.

Top tip:

Don’t trust your team members to be mind readers. Communicate your thoughts regarding function, aesthetics, budget and time frame — then confirm that you’ve been heard. Shared vision is essential for positive team dynamics and, most importantly, great results.

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En Plein Air Amangani offers a luxe opportunity to be one with nature. | BY HAYLEY DULIN

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s my flight descended into Jackson Hole, I peered out the window and gazed at the Western frontier. Upon arriving at the airport, I was greeted with a warm Amangani welcome by the friendly driver, and soon enough I was outside, breathing the crisp mountain air. In the smooth comfort of a sleek BMW X5, we made our way along the snow-covered roads to Aman’s premier mountain property. Amangani, meaning peaceful home, is carved into the crest of the East Gros Ventre Butte overlooking the Teton Range. Its structure is contemporary, hewn from Oklahoma sandstone and wood that blend seamlessly with the surrounding mountains and forests. The interiors are extravagant yet laid-back, with high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling picture windows and a subtle Asian influence. The all-suite rooms are comfortable and luxurious, each including a king-size platform bed, cowhide woven chairs and faux wolf-skin throws — a clear nod to the American West. They also feature a large fireplace and private terrace or balcony presenting breathtaking views of the Snake River Valley. The bathrooms are similarly amenity-laden, with a deep soaking tub, separate shower, his-and-hers vanities and a closet spacious enough to store all of your winter best. Amangani continues to dazzle with its restaurant, the Grill. Looking out over the valley, the 65-seat, redwood-paneled eatery serves local meats, fresh fish and farm-to-table produce. The cuisine is simultaneously regional and international, featuring local, sustainable ingredients prepared with Asian flair. For a sweet-savory start to the day, order the sweet-potato Belgian waffle and caribou sausages. Dinner entrées include ranch meats you aren’t likely to find outside the West, like Colorado elk rib chops, Mead Ranch grass-fed beef and buffalo bourguignon. The lounge, with its stylish zinc bar, offers an array of locally crafted beer and spirits. The expansive spa focuses as much on physical fitness as it does on pampering, with two exercise studios, a quartzite-tiled outdoor pool (maintained at a comfortable 80 degrees) and four treatment rooms. Prepare for your day with a private yoga or Pilates session and unwind before bed with a rejuvenating deep-tissue massage.

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It may be a challenge to muster up the motivation to leave the property, but if you do, the deeply knowledgeable staff can arrange anything from horseback riding to dogsledding to sleigh rides with a picnic in tow. Adventure seekers can give heliskiing a try or tackle Jackson Hole’s 2,741 acres of challenging downhill terrain. For a truly unforgettable experience, book a wildlife tour in the comfort of a warm BMW X5 lead by Amangani’s resident wildlife expert, Jared Paul. During the four-hour experience, he will point out deer, elk, bison and perhaps even a bear. Beyond the thrilling exposure to local fauna, you also will be privy to some excellent historical context, coming away with a full awareness of the magic that makes Jackson Hole the true American West.

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THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY An insurance salesman and a doctor walk into a bar and end up at the North Pole. | BY GUY LAWSON | ILLUSTRATION BY MANDY EBERT

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he twin-prop plane swung low, tilting its wings and heading north, only to circle back and swoop down over the men again. It was March 7, 1968, and the members of the Plaisted polar expedition looked up at the plane in bewilderment. They were trying to travel to the North Pole by snowmobile — in what they believed to be the first expedition to the North Pole carried out on motorized machines, but what in reality may very well have been the first to reach the North Pole at all. Barely an hour into the trek, it wasn’t going well. Having just left base camp, the six men stood atop a 40-foot-high wall of ice at the edge of the Arctic Ocean and looked at what lay ahead: stretching over the horizon, an unending moonscape of ice boulders, crevices and pack ice contorted by vast floes whose constant motion created steep pressure ridges and black stretches of open water known as leads. Sounds came from the ice, ghoulish groans as floes shifted followed by artillery-like reports as the sheets collided, threatening to open a yawning divide beneath their feet at any moment. In the days ahead, they would have to zigzag through a patchwork of pressure ridges and risk breaking through the frozen mantle and drowning in the glacial sea. “God, we can never cross that,” one man said. The scene before them was not what they imagined back in Minnesota, when a dare in a bar instigated the least likely polar expedition of all time. A group of average, middle-aged, suburban men — an insurance salesman, a mechanic, a doctor, an engineer — had joined forces with a young Canadian adventurer, the scion of snowmobile manufacturer Bombardier, which was sponsoring the voyage. The snowmobiles the men had brought to the Arctic were primitive 16-horsepower Ski-Doos, little more than riding lawn mowers with snow tracks. Now, only a few miles into the journey, the idea of going to the North Pole by snowmobile suddenly seemed dangerous, impossible, insane. Just before the plane passed over for a third time, veering once again to their right, it dawned on the men that the pilot was trying to tell them something. The Twin Otter was supposed to resupply them as they progressed across the ice — gas, beer, steaks, smokes, all the necessities. But the pilot had apparently come to check on their progress on the first day of the voyage. A tiny red object flew out of the cockpit window, landing in a snowdrift. It was a box of cigarettes, with a note: “You’re 45 degrees off course,” it read. “Enter the pack here.” The expedition was just beginning, and they were headed in the wrong direction. As the plane disappeared to the south, the tiny, disoriented wagon train turned north, spirits low. They worked for hours in 60-below temperatures to lift their machines over a ridge of ice blocks. They progressed only 150 yards farther into the ice field by the end of the day

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— scarcely more than a football field. There were 415 miles to go, but the estimated total distance would be nearly double that once lateral travel to avoid obstacles was factored in. At this rate, they wouldn’t reach the pole by the time spring arrived to thaw half the Arctic Ocean. The sky darkened and threatened a storm — a blow, in Arctic argot — and the men made camp. Walt Pederson, the mechanic, started to tinker with a snowmobile only to discover he’d forgotten his tools at base camp. They had left in extreme haste that day at the insistence of the expedition leader, Ralph Plaisted. After they set up their tent, Plaisted cut a finger opening a tin of chocolate. Art Aufderheide, the medic, inspected the wound. “Ain’t you going to sew it up?” Plaisted asked. “Looks like the suture kit and the medical bag didn’t get packed on the sled when we left,” Aufderheide replied. “My god,” Plaisted said. “Can’t I depend on you guys for anything? Get on the radio, see if you can contact Moriarty at base camp.” “I can’t,” the radio operator, Don Powellek, said. “Why not?” “We’ve got all the radio equipment along, but nobody brought the generators,” Powellek replied. Handing out soup in the frigid tent, the leader Plaisted sullenly admitted his own mistake. “Shut up and drink it,” he said. “I forgot the silverware.”

The dialogue above comes from an odd account of the Plaisted expedition titled First to the Pole. On the copyright page of the book, it is stated, “This is a work of fiction.” The book’s first words are “This is a true story.” Something I discovered when I stumbled on the snowmobilers’ tale: When dealing with the lore and literature of the North Pole, determining the precise truth of events can be surprisingly

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difficult. The book was written by multiple amateur authors, and Corinne Dwyer, the book’s publisher in St. Cloud, called it “creative nonfiction.” As I further reported the story, I realized that the book was in fact based on their diaries as well as the recollections years later of the men involved. Ralph Plaisted died in 2008, as have most of the men involved in the expedition. The story of their voyage has disappeared into near-perfect obscurity, buried in yellowing letters and press clippings stowed in boxes I found in garages and basements scattered across Minneapolis. The factual uncertainties surrounding the Plaisted expedition pale in comparison with those that dog the historical record of previous attempts. During the golden age of polar exploration, which lasted from the 19th century to the early years of the 20th, two expeditions claimed to have reached the North Pole. The first such declaration was by Robert Peary, who was widely credited with reaching the pole in 1909. But doubts about the veracity of his claim began upon his arrival back in the United States. Peary said he had traveled distances by sledge that subsequent investigations suggested weren’t humanly possible, and he had no way of locating the pole if he had made it. The vast majority of experts now concur that Admiral Peary faked his logs and failed to reach the pole, a deception of historic proportions. It was a tale enveloped in half-truths, exaggerations and the wishful thinking of the National Geographic Society, which sponsored the expedition. In 1988, long after Peary’s death, The New York Times ran a correction to its original 1909 story admitting that The Times and the society “may have failed to scrutinize adequately what they yearned to believe.” Equally discredited was another claimant, Frederick Cook, who maintained that he reached the pole a year before Peary. This meant that Plaisted and his fellow adventurers — though they didn’t know it at the time — would improbably rank as the first to prove they had reached the pole. That is, if they could pull it off.

The Big Idea, as it became known, was born in a pub called the Pickwick overlooking Lake Superior in Duluth in 1966. Ralph Plaisted, a barrel-chested, 39-year-old insurance salesman, was having a beer with an acquaintance, a local doctor named Art Aufderheide. They were discussing plans for a seal-hunting trip by dog sled in the far north of Canada. Tall and husky with a walrus-like mustache, Plaisted suggested they should go on snowmobiles, which were then a newfangled winter recreational vehicle. He was convinced that the machines, branded Ski-Doos, would transform life for the Inuit in the region. Aufderheide didn’t care for snowmobiles. He thought the noisy machines would intrude on the solemn silence of the Arctic. “If you get hungry, you can’t eat a snowmobile,” Aufderheide said — the totemic last resort of Arctic lore. But Plaisted insisted on the virtues of these “iron dogs.” “If snowmobiles are so good,” Aufderheide countered, “why couldn’t you do something really spectacular with one — like drive it to the North Pole?” Plaisted didn’t speak. He’d grown up reading about polar adventures in the pages of National Geographic magazine. Now, apparently in the throes of a midlife crisis, he sat looking at his beer and imagined himself in the Minneapolis Tribune. The year before, he drove his snowmobile 250 miles along the highway from his cabin in Ely to his home in White Bear Lake, a deed he accomplished in minus-30-degree temperatures. How much harder could it be in the high Arctic? “To hell with seal hunting,” Plaisted said. “Let’s go to the North Pole!” Plaisted wasn’t what might be considered a stereotypical polar explorer. A 10th-grade dropout who joined the Navy and apprenticed as a baker, he was a natural salesman who now owned a thriving insurance business. He had been duck hunting in Saskatchewan and loved to ride his collection of snowmobiles at his lakeside cabin, but he longed to find a project to throw himself into. Until that very moment, he had

never considered such a venture. The challenge soon became an obsession that Plaisted shared with his buddies, a collection of suburban dads in their thirties and forties. Don Powellek, his best friend and an engineer, agreed to be the radio operator; he said yes partly to make up for missing so many hunting trips — he didn’t think Plaisted would actually go. As the instigator, Aufderheide signed on to be the expedition’s doctor because he wanted to experience what it was like to travel across Arctic ice; reaching the pole didn’t really matter to him. To keep the team headed in the right direction — no easy task in the magnetic north — Plaisted recruited a high-school geography teacher named Jerry Pitzl, who learned to navigate in the Marine Corps but had never been on a snowmobile or spent much time outdoors. The self-appointed leader, Plaisted cast himself as the expedition cook, a job he held in the military while serving in the Aleutians, a remote string of volcanic islands in the northern Pacific. The final piece of the puzzle was a mechanic, and there was no one in Minnesota better with snowmobiles than Walt Pederson, an ambidextrous autodidact who ran a local Ski-Doo dealership. Since childhood, he had displayed a genius with small engines, despite a lack of formal education. The primitive two-stroke engines in snowmobiles had never been exposed to the extreme elements of the North Pole, so keeping them running would require serious talent. Bantam-size but tough and always in a hurry, Pederson was the sort of man who would turn an afternoon walk into a race. He paused for 10 seconds when approached with the offer. “I’m in,” he said.

Preparing for their first expedition in 1967, the men spent winter weekends at Plaisted’s deer-hunting camp, hoping to

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recreate the conditions they imagined they would encounter in the Arctic. They tooled around on snowmobiles and built ice ridges to mimic the real thing (or so they thought). The men stripped and jumped into the freezing water of an iced-over lake to see how long it took them to get dressed without dying from hypothermia. As stories started to appear in the local press, onlookers turned up to watch the explorers rehearse on Mille Lacs Lake. According to Pederson’s son Tim, the men took a psychological test to determine their suitability for the arduous trek. None passed. What Plaisted lacked in experience he made up for with his talents as an impresario. The men who’d experienced life and death at the ends of the earth — Sir Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Robert Peary — all practiced a form of survivalism with almost religious dimensions. Plaisted had no intention of duplicating their hardships. He aimed to make his voyage as safe and comfortable as possible. They would receive support by air, a kind of Arctic room service. They would have radios and all the gear they could carry — kerosene stoves, lamps and cameras — on the sleds they would tow. A documentary crew from CBS would film their progress. Scores of companies around the country succumbed to Plaisted’s sales pitch. No one had reached the North Pole over the ice since Peary, he explained, and no one had ever gone there by snowmobile. What sounded like a knuckleheaded idea actually captured the spirit of the age of lunar exploration: man, machine, limitless ambition. Plaisted soon had corporations large and small on the hook to provide free goods and services to the expedition — everything from designer watches to Scotch whiskey. Bombardier, at the time a small snowmobile manufacturer in Quebec, agreed to supply Ski-Doos, so long as a family member could join the expedition: Jean-Luc Bombardier, a handsome 29-year-old nephew of the founder, was a snowmobile racer who served as the face of the company in advertising. A Canadian joining the expedition also conveniently allayed geopolitical concerns about a bunch of Americans planting a flag at the North Pole and thereby laying claim to the territory. The men raised more than $100,000 for expenses, including their polar outfits. The clothing was ingenious in its engineering: an inner parka made of poplin with a wolverine-fur hood layered underneath a duck canvas exterior parka with hand-stitched hems and cuffs and a hood lined with Arctic wolf fur. Each parka was dyed a different color so the men could identify one another by sight in harsh conditions; Plaisted picked royal purple. Like the towering polar explorers of the past, he named the expedition after himself, and he plastered “Plaisted” on all the men’s outfits and, indeed, on every piece of equipment he could. As Plaisted promoted the expedition, he approached the National Geographic Society, which invited him in for an interview. Plaisted, who adored the magazine, eagerly traveled to Washington, D.C. But lunch in the society’s ornate boardroom quickly turned into a scene of ridicule and condescension, or so it seemed to Plaisted. (“Real dainty food,” he recalled later, “some kind of casserole in a little dish.”) The fact that he’d never traveled farther north than Saskatchewan was noted with derision, as was his failure to articulate a greater purpose for the expedition, a common pretense of explorers throughout history. Peary had labored mightily for decades to reach the pole, losing eight toes to amputation, supposedly focused on scientifically documenting terra incognita — but in truth he, too, was obsessed with personal glory. “They said I wasn’t planning on doing enough scientific stuff,” Plaisted told CBS reporter Charles Kuralt for his book To the Top of the World, an account of the expedition’s first attempt in 1967. “I said I was planning to go to the North Pole — wasn’t that enough? They said nobody could just take a few cronies from Minnesota and go to the North Pole. I told them they could just sit there and watch me.”

The first Plaisted expedition departed on March 28, 1967, from Eureka, a small Canadian research center on Ellesmere Island, 700 miles from the pole. None of the men had ever set foot on Arctic ice. As the group headed out on the first day, Plaisted used an iceberg in the distance as his point of reference for navigation, only to discover that they had circled it and were mistakenly heading south. A month later, pinned down by an enormous storm that kept them in their tents for a week, the expedition was abandoned 400 miles short of the pole. As Plaisted lay in his sleeping bag, humiliated, frustrated and terrified, he wrote in his diary, “Just when we have

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finally learned enough to succeed, we have failed.” Undaunted, Plaisted and his friends returned in 1968. For food, Plaisted approached Pillsbury, headquartered in Minneapolis. The company’s food scientists were developing dehydrated dishes for the Apollo space program, and he pitched them the idea of testing their astronaut food in the Arctic climate. There, John Moriarty, a 28-year-old working in research, asked if he could come along to help with logistics at the base camp. The soft-spoken Moriarty literally quit his job that day and signed on — a fact he told me last fall, in a tone that indicated that the trip remained a highlight of his life. The second Plaisted expedition officially left in late February 1968 from Montreal, the location of Bombardier headquarters. But the early omens were not good. Plaisted hadn’t been able to persuade CBS to cover the second attempt, so he sold the documentary rights. The two sideburned Swiss cameramen hired for the job acted as if they were on a film set, not embarking on an expedition. They kept demanding the men restage events like the departure on the tarmac in front of an honor guard of bagpipers freezing in the wind. An argument erupted when Pederson refused to sign an agreement stipulating that Plaisted would receive by far the largest share of any monetary benefit from the expedition. Without Pederson, they’d have no one to keep the machines running, dooming the effort. When the others said they wouldn’t go unless he came along, Plaisted relented. Base camp for the second attempt was at a place called Ward Hunt Island, a former Canadian research center 425 miles from the pole that they reached by twin-prop plane. The site was much closer to their goal than the previous year’s, further improving their chances of success. It also happened to be close to the spot from which Peary departed in 1909. “The camp at Ward Island was a shambles when we arrived,” Moriarty told me. “There were these huts from the 1950s with all the walls blown out. It was 50 below, so we used cardboard to build walls.” After the fiasco of the first day, when their supply pilot, legendary Arctic airman Weldy Phipps, tossed them a cigarette pack to inform them they were headed in the wrong direction, Pederson returned to camp to collect the forgotten equipment. But the second day proved just as maddeningly difficult, and Plaisted was furious with the lack of progress. “Ralph was really rambunctious — shouting, screaming, yelling, blaming everybody for everything,” Aufderheide wrote in his diary. “Ralph hollered at everybody, but it didn’t have much power,” Pederson said later. “It just made him think he knew better. I didn’t mind. In one ear and out the other, unless it was something important like warning that a polar bear was coming.” Finally breaking through the ice ridge on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, they encountered what was called the big lead, the place where the ice hits deep water and is shaped by the ocean’s currents and tides. Freshwater ice is brittle and

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cracks when too much weight is put on it; saltwater ice is rubbery and stretches before it breaks, turning judgment about safe travel into a highly uncertain science. Variations in temperature, movement of floes, wind, the age of the ice, the depth of the ice — all needed to be constantly assessed. As winter gave way to spring and the ice upon the Arctic Ocean began to disappear, the situation would only worsen.

The peloton of four Ski-Doos and sleds navigated a disorienting landscape with no landmarks or signs of civilization. There were only five hours of daylight that far north, so they had to make the most of waking hours. On the third day, a blizzard kept them in their tents until noon. That afternoon, as they worked to break through a ridge, a cameramen tossed his ax into a sled, cutting through a container holding five gallons of fuel and soaking two sleeping bags with gas. From then on, the men had to zip the remaining bags together and sleep three or four to a bag. With sleeping pills and whiskey, the arrangement proved to be warmer. The air support they received was no simple matter. Weather frequently grounded the plane, and the terrain out on the ice sometimes made landing impossible. Barrels of gas and, catastrophically, cans of beer were in danger of breaking in airdrops. Returning south to get supplies early in the expedition, an engine on the Twin Otter died, and Phipps, the pilot, nearly crashed as he steered over a range of mountains. While the engine was being repaired, the ice party ran out of fuel to heat their tents in the middle of a blizzard. It was 60 below inside and impossible to sleep. Their food supplies dangerously low, the men quietly contemplated giving up in the face of the kind of hardship Arctic explorers have always faced. They became haunted by the existential question at the heart of all polar expeditions: Why on earth am I doing this? “Men: All are anxious at the moment,” Aufderheide wrote in his journal on the fifth day of the expedition. “All have given thought to walking or riding to [base camp]. The problems with this, together with the humiliation, keep most of us from talking about it.” “All the fears a man can have tormented through my mind from claustrophobia,” Pederson recorded in his journal. “From the [polar] bear episode yesterday, to the loss of love, to ice piling on us, to a burial in a blow, to freezing to death.” By the end of the first week, they had traveled only 35 miles from base camp.

The Plaisted expedition was racing against the spring melt, when half of the ice covering the Arctic Ocean would disappear. At the same time, they were racing against an eccentric Englishman named Wally Herbert, who was trying to reach the top of the world in the traditional, heroic manner: dog and sledge. He had spent most of his adult life on polar expeditions, trying almost literally to walk in the footsteps of men like Shackleton and Amundsen and Peary. He was obsessed with a version of an authentic polar expedition that required him to employ the same methods used during the golden age.

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For the most part, that is: The year before, stranded on the Arctic Ocean, Herbert and his two comrades sent out a distress signal by Morse code that he and his crew were running out of food and faced starvation. The Plaisted expedition of 1967 had failed by then, but the men were still at base camp. They went on a mercy mission to bring Herbert supplies by air. The Englishman was reluctant to accept help from a group of men using “motorized toboggans” to try to reach the pole. He called the offer of aid the most difficult question he’d ever been asked, but he relented: “If we didn’t accept Plaisted’s food, we should have to kill and eat the dogs,” he wrote. Instead, they took the candy bars and kerosene. Despite the appearance of historical authenticity, Herbert best resembled a Civil War re-enactor, a delusional inhabitant of an imagined glorious past. He aimed to walk across the Arctic by way of the North Pole, and unless the 1968 Plaisted expedition failed, they would beat him handily. Still, the psychological toll of traveling over the ice was becoming evident in the Plaisted expedition. Aufderheide and Powellek were cautious and fearful: “By ourselves we’d never get to the pole,” Aufderheide wrote in his journal. The long-haired Bombardier, younger than the others and by far the best rider even if he was out of shape, found escape from the sounds of the ice and whipping blizzards by smoking cigarettes in his tent and listening to rock ’n’ roll on a small tape recorder he’d brought. Despite his private fears, Pederson was upbeat and eager to push forward, no matter the dangers. “Often wishes to do irrational things in his nervously energetic manner,” Aufderheide observed of him. On the night of March 15 came another big blow, like the one that defeated them the year before. Gale-force winds pounded the expedition for seven days and nights, and Plaisted, Pederson and Aufderheide were forced to be alone together 24 hours a day. According to First to the Pole, the tent took on the air of a confessional. Plaisted told the men that his personal life was a mess. While he was preparing for the second expedition in 1968, his eldest daughter told me, he was having an affair with a woman who used to work for his insurance agency. Plaisted’s wife was pregnant at the time. He told the men he intended to leave his wife upon his return. Pederson, a deeply religious man, was baffled by Plaisted’s admission. He told the others about his upbringing during the Depression, during which his impoverished parents had beaten and abused him. “I hated my parents,” he would later write to a sibling. “I wanted desperately to think or feel that I was worth something, so much so that taking risks seemed the thing to do, like making the trip to the North Pole on Ski-Doos.” The men all entertained second thoughts as they huddled against the terrifying force of the big blow. But this time they withstood the fear. The weather turned fair, and they were soon making real progress. Pederson left the tent first each morning to start the engines by sparking the carburetor with a gas rag set aflame, an ingenious fix. Bombardier departed a half hour before the others to find the path northward.

Now, the greatest danger was the leads, those black stretches of open water and paper-thin ice. Every time they encountered one,

panic descended. There was a local truism that a man in polar water was a dead man, a saying that darkened their imaginations as they revved their engines and sped across the rubbery expanses of ice. The farther north they traveled, the more erratic Plaisted’s behavior grew. Haunted by the thought of falling through the ice, he was clearly under emotional strain, and he hectored Pederson endlessly. Before the expedition, Plaisted specifically asked Aufderheide to be blunt about his leadership failings. Nearly a month into the trip, Aufderheide warned Plaisted that he was being too hard on the men, needling and ridiculing his team. “They have to work hard now that we got good weather,” Plaisted replied. “It’s like the guy from National Geographic said: You’ve got to drive them until they hate your guts.” “That’s the first time I heard you pay attention to anything they told you,” Aufderheide said. “And it’s probably the only advice they gave you that’s wrong.” Plaisted was unmoved. The only thing he cared about was making it to the pole. Until that point, the men had been forced to share snowmobiles, slowing down the expedition considerably. Plaisted decided to trim the team so that each man would have a machine to himself. To speed their progress, Aufderheide volunteered to return to base camp to help with logistics; making it to the pole had never been his ambition. Plaisted then told the cameraman and Powellek, his best friend and the deputy leader, to head back as well. Forced from the ice party, Powellek felt discarded and betrayed; after working for years on the expedition, he was being denied his chance at the prize.

Pitzl, the navigator, had been at base camp, but now he was flown out to join the ice party and keep them on course. The four each had their own snowmobiles: Pederson had “Little Lady” inscribed on the hood; Pitzl had “Polecat”; Plaisted “Caribou Queen”; and Bombardier, the bachelor French Canadian, dubbed his “Le Swinger.” Distances traveled each day began to grow from 22 miles to 54 miles — the kind of distance Peary and Wally Herbert could never achieve with dog and sledge. The plane flew ahead of them, searching for the best path forward — an advantage unimaginable to past polar explorers. Aufderheide oversaw a project to photograph the ice pack to provide a map for the expedition. With the distance from base camp growing, a refueling station was established halfway to the pole, using a beacon devised by Powellek. Despite the dysfunction and disputation, each man in the ragtag collection was contributing. Pitzl, who now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, told me the expedition was a godsend for him at the time. His mother died in January 1966, and his first marriage ended in February of that year. So when Plaisted proposed the North Pole expedition in March, he grabbed the chance. “It gave me something to be excited about,” Pitzl says. “It took away some of the upset and gave me something to hold on to.”

Reminders of the risks were everywhere. One night, zipped two to a sleeping bag and listening to the groaning ice, as Plaisted later told a reporter, the men were horrified when the ice pan they were

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camping on suddenly started to roar and rumble, as if coming to life. No one said a word. In the morning, Pitzl was the first out of the tent, and he reported that the entire south end of the ice pan was rubble; they’d missed ruination by a matter of yards. “We don’t care what’s going on to the south,” Pederson said. “We’re going north.” On April 8, after a month and a day on the ice, it looked as if another big blow was coming: A specter appeared on the horizon, shimmering and ethereal. As they neared it, though, they realized that they were seeing mist rise from a tremendous expanse of open water two miles wide and stretching to the horizon in both directions. The scale of it was terrifying. The men agreed that they would have to hope it would freeze over. But the ice was getting softer, giving way underfoot in an unnerving fashion. “How deep is the ocean here?” Bombardier asked as they looked at the lead, according to First to the Pole. “Ten thousand feet,” Pitzl said. “Maybe we should wait,” Bombardier said. Trapped on a floe drifting southward, they continually checked the thickness of the ice over the next few days; Bombardier probed with a chisel then carefully stepped onto the gray ice, progressing inch by inch until the ice grew black and watery. The situation seemed hopeless. Pederson and Bombardier kept patrolling up and down the length of the lead, looking for a place where their floe might connect with the floe to the north. Then Pederson saw a large extrusion that appeared to be about to collide with their ice pan. He raced back to camp and urged the team to pack up and prepare for when the floes smashed into each other. They’d be able to cross during the collision, Pederson told them eagerly. The plan sounded far too dangerous to Plaisted, but the other three insisted. A kind of polar fever had taken over. Revving their engines, the din breaking the vast silence, they awaited word from Pederson until the floes crashed with an enormous boom. “Now,” Pederson shouted. The expedition set forth at full throttle, skimming onto the other floe. But there was an almighty roar and a crack as the ice fractured, splitting the party into two pairs of sleds. Pitzl gunned his Ski-Doo and made it to the main floe, the others grabbing his sled and pulling it ashore before he sank into the abyss. Now Pederson was left drifting away, with open water spreading among the fragmenting ice islands. He had no choice but to go as fast as he could until he reached an expanse of thin black ice. As he tried to cross it, his machine bogged down and began to sink, its snow track spinning ineffectually. Plaisted, overpowering his own fear, stepped off the safety of the hard floe onto the gelatinous ice and picked his way gingerly to the machine, his feet sinking with each step. He tugged the skis of Pederson’s Ski-Doo and pulled it from the grasp of the frigid sea. Others told different versions of the story, but years later, Pederson still recalled the “miracle” that saved his life. Later that night, as they lay in the tent contemplating the risks they were taking, Plaisted told his compadres: “If any of you think we’re doing anything like that again, you can forget it right now.”

The North Pole was a point in space that could be defined by the stars, the earth’s magnetic field, the earth’s rotation around its axis, tectonics — or the sense of adventure. “We strive for an elusive and imaginary point,” Pitzl wrote in his diary. “This may be what drove Peary for 25 years, and Cook, too. It has nothing to do with the Arctic and the wilds of the north. It’s the drive to capture something that defies capture.”

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Determining the pole’s exact location presented the team’s final challenge. Pitzl stopped hourly to use a sextant to find their latitude, and by April 15, he judged that they were now less than two degrees of latitude from the exact geographic northernmost point on the globe. Victory at hand, Plaisted was presented with a quandary. Two key members of the expedition — Aufderheide and Powellek, his best friend — could be flown up to share the experience of reaching the pole or the two cameramen working on the documentary could come to provide a record of the deed. There wasn’t room in the plane for all of them. Plaisted chose the filmmakers, bitterly disappointing Powellek, who believed that it had been Plaisted’s plan all along to cut out the other two and steal the spotlight. But before they could reach the top, the ice party encountered what looked like a trap, a foreboding jumble of broken and fragmented ice. “There must be six or seven leads out there,” Pitzl said to Plaisted. In every direction lay peril: some leads frozen, some stretches of open water. It was like a spider’s web, the ridges and floes forming an intricate icescape that lured them in farther. But after hours navigating the labyrinth, they reached open ice again and closed in on 90 degrees north — the pole. The sense of elation was palpable. As they were breaking camp a few days later, the men were startled by the roar of a large Air Force jet flying low over the Arctic searching for the ice party. The overflights would be able to confirm the team’s position, even as they drifted over the geographically fixed position of true north. The next day, the party picked its spot. “This is Lark 47 on approach to the North Pole,” the pilot of the jet called on the radio. He began to count down from 10 as Plaisted came into view below. “I see them dead ahead. Four, three, two, one, North Pole. Dead on. Every direction from where you fellows are is south.” It was April 20 at 11 in the morning when they officially became the first to the pole.

Why was the unlikely triumph of the Plaisted expedition lost to history? The answer is a combination of bad luck and polar politics. When the expedition returned to Montreal, a writer from National Geographic was waiting, hoping to acquire rights to the story. Plaisted flatly refused, despite the pleading of his comrades. Since Peary’s day, the magazine had been the official arbiter of exploration claims like theirs; with his refusal, Plaisted denied his

team the legitimacy only the society could bestow. “Ralph thought for sure there would be a ticker-tape parade in New York City,” Pitzl recalls. “Ralph had a big ego — it was ego all the way. He was convinced there would be laurels. But no dice.” Wally Herbert eventually reached the pole in 1969 after being trapped on an ice floe for close to eight months. Even the thwarted Englishman in his later years acknowledged that the rightful claim to being first to the pole went to Plaisted and his snowmobiling pals, although their voyage lacked the high-minded pretensions of golden-age exploration. As I disinterred the tale, I learned that one member of the team who had taken the entire trek still survived: Walt Pederson. He was about to turn 88, his eldest son, Tim, told me last October, and I was welcome to come to his birthday party in Minnesota. Walt had recently been picked up by the police in Butte, Montana, where he and his wife had holed up in an RV with more than $100,000 in cash, both clearly suffering from dementia. Returned home, he was now living in a memory-care ward — but his restless energy meant that he was constantly trying to escape by climbing out windows. “The hospital called and said that Dad was saying crazy things,” his son told me. “They said he told them he’d been to the North Pole on a snowmobile.” The younger Pederson laughed. “I told them that part was true.” The elder Pederson was flinty, with a solid handshake, but it was evident that his memory had suffered significant loss. As we walked toward the cafeteria for his party, Walt broke into a fast-paced shuffle, almost a jog, as I was told he’d always done. “God gave me more ambition than a man should have” was one of his mottos. “Your mind isn’t what it used to be,” the son told his father. “I know that,” Walt replied. His descent into dementia had been painful for the family. But sitting together eating birthday cake, they all relished the chance to recollect his amazing Arctic voyage. Like the grown children of the other members of the expedition, they took great pride in their intrepid father. The feat was fading from memory, but Walt grinned, seeming to recognize why a perfect stranger had come to talk to him about the Plaisted expedition. “Why did you go to the North Pole?” I asked. “I’d never been there,” Walt said, eyes twinkling. “I knew it would be fun. I’d go back now, if I could. Why not?” This article is reprinted in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine, where it first appeared in March 2016.

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between fine art and documentary that gives his images a humanistic pulse. Among his subjects: a young bride sitting on a lawn chair in a motel parking lot, her stiff organza dress floating around her like a cloud. An aged, creamy-haired dance partner extending open arms forward, his right leg pointing in a graceful sidestep. Who is he waiting for? Rehearsing for? It’s as if we have been dropped into a private moment, a personal dream. Soth was an especially shy boy growing up in Chanhassen. Somewhat isolated, he developed a lively imagination. A teacher encouraged him to express that inner world through art. He studied painting at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College then took up sculpture. But when he picked up the camera to photograph his work, something viscerally clicked. “So much about art making comes from a place back when we were children,” Soth notes. Now he is bringing Minnesota youth into the fold with his cross-country Winnebago Workshop, an art school on wheels that pairs artists with teens to create multimedia stories. “I did this talk at a local high school, and I was actually sort of dreading it,” Soth recalls. “But I was charmed by the students’ raw energy and their lack of cynicism about art.” That lack of cynicism is what helps propel Soth forward when developing new ideas in his St. Paul studio. He likes to keep current work close to the vest: “I am very much a project photographer, like a writer who comes out with a new book every three to four years,” he explains. And while he’s considered moving elsewhere, right now the North suits him just fine. Away from the intense glare of the New York art world, he is free to quietly create: “What I’ve learned from all my travels is that there is no perfect place. So Minnesota is a pretty good place — and better than most.”

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t first blush, Ralph Burnet’s success story doesn’t scream American dream. But all told, it really is. The Minnesota native, now 71, co-owned a ski shop at 50th & France back in his twenties but was having trouble making ends meet. One day he made his way across the street to Bermel-Smaby Realty, which just happened to be co-owned by Burnet’s former Little League coach. And that’s when he “decided to try real estate,” as he puts it. He joined the sales force in 1968, eventually rising to No. 1. But one thing was missing: the opportunity for growth. The partners had plans to pass the business along to their kids, which left Burnet out of the equation. And so he struck out on his own, founding Burnet Realty in 1973 with $18,000 in seed money and some colleagues along for the ride. There were obstacles aplenty, he recalls: “When I started the company, everyone thought I was crazy because it was during a deep recession. There was an oil crisis. And we had an 8-percent usury law, so basically we had no mortgage money. But if we hadn’t started in hard times, I don’t know if we would have been that successful. We knew nothing but hard work, and we just decided to outwork our competition.” And all that hard work certainly paid off. “When we started, we were dead last; seven years later, we were No. 1,” he explains. “When we became No. 1 in 1980, we had a party out at Buck Hill and damn near blew that mountain up. I think there are still some people out in the bushes. My god, was that a party.” Merrill Lynch took notice of the success and acquired the firm in 1982, with Burnet relocating to Connecticut to run the

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operation. He bought the business back in 1990, transforming it into a one-stop real-estate shop. In 1998, he sold it once more, this time to NRT. That move created Coldwell Banker Burnet, which today enjoys a leading luxury market share. Burnet currently serves as chair. Behind it all is the philosophy that has driven business since the early days: to be successful, to have fun and, most importantly, to give people the opportunity to grow. “There are people who know where they’re going to be next year, where they’re going to be in five years — and that’s boring,” notes Burnet. “I wanted to start a company where every day is just blue sky and the opportunity is there.” But despite this booming business, real estate isn’t his burning passion. Yes, Burnet is also wild about sports; he’s a Timberwolves minority owner and is credited with bringing pro golf to Minnesota back in the nineties. And sure, he took that foray into hospitality to fill a need he saw here, ushering in luxury accommodations at Chambers and the W. But what really gets him going? Art. Contemporary British art, to be specific. He and wife Peggy have long been supporters of the Walker Art Center, which Ralph deems one of the top three contemporary museums in the world. They’ve donated several major works, including a late Willem de Kooning. And Ralph was recently named an honorary trustee after more than two decades on the Walker’s board. It’s this involvement that really sparked a fire in him. “Ralph has been a generous, dedicated patron for nearly three decades,” notes Walker Executive Director Olga Viso. “I met Ralph

and Peggy 20 years ago through their passionate support of the Young British Artists and the Walker’s 1995 exhibition Brilliant!: New Art From London, the first major survey of its kind in the United States. Indeed, it was Ralph who recruited me to the Walker nearly 10 years ago.” The Burnets are avid collectors, their Wayzata property as much a gallery as a home. Interior spaces are filled with works by Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and the like. The real showstopper, though, is a 17-foot spot painting by Damien Hirst (unsurprisingly, it’s also Ralph’s favorite). Scattered across the 16-acre grounds are striking sculptures, to which Ralph has turned his attention. “Peggy always asks, ‘Now where are you going to put that?’” he explains. “And I say, ‘That’s irrelevant.’” One piece in the collection that seems subtle in nature and small in scale has a larger-than-life backstory. The Burnets were in London back in 2002 visiting artists and stopped by painter Marc Quinn’s studio. Explains Ralph: “He was making a diamond. All diamonds are made of carbon, and everything eventually turns to carbon. We’re made of carbon. And if you compress it and heat it, you can manufacture diamonds. So he was fiddling with his 2,000-degree oven, and I said quietly to him, ‘Can you make me a diamond?’ He said, ‘I will, but you need to get some hair.’ So that night we went to a cocktail party at Jay Jopling’s — he’s the biggest art dealer in London. I asked his then wife, Sam Taylor-Wood, for some scissors, and I came up behind Peggy, grabbed her hair and just took a huge chunk off. She was so pissed; she was just screaming because a bunch of artists were there. I got it back to Marc, and about a year later, this one-carat diamond came. It’s called ‘The Perfect Form of Peggy Burnet.’” All told, it’s been a pretty fantastic ride. And despite his rampant success in business, Ralph takes a decidedly artful approach to it all. “You’re only here for a visit in life,” he muses, “so you better enjoy what you’re doing or get the hell out.”

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