OUR SCENE | HOMES FEATURE
MidModMen+friends
Make Like the Phoenix and Rise Anew BY ANDREW STARK | PHOTOS BY ASHLEY RICK
People who shop at MidModMen+friends in Saint Anthony Park know what they’re doing. They furnish and decorate their living spaces with intention, a curatorial flair. This sofa’s a stunner, that walnut table lamp an objet d’art. The bedroom becomes a refuge, the living room a showroom. It isn’t just about feeling stylish and cool in your personal surroundings; it’s about harmonizing your space (and, ipso facto, your own mind). Because your home should offer at least a semblance of the eye-popping serenity found in art museums. And so MMM really doesn’t sell furniture: they provide a discerning collection of functional artwork for the home. To wit, you don’t just sit in an Italian A. Sibau Sculpted Solid Cherry Chair, you use this exquisite sculpture for its intended purpose. 2021 will live in universal infamy, but that year was especially difficult for some of us—including Neal Keilar, who co-owns MMM with husband Jon Mehus, and who endured a Shakespearean amount of misfortune. We had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Neal about these challenges, and quite literally rising from the ashes to reopen their wonderful shop in early February of 2022. Continue on page 22
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