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Saarinen Sweeps In

Eero Saarinen will renew his stardom this fall at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts when Shaping the Future, an international touring exhibit of the Finnish architect’s work cruises into town. The major retrospective includes never-before-seen drawings, models, photos, furnishings, films, and more. It runs September 14th to January 4th. If you’re interested in Saarinen’s work on airports, memorials, and embassies, go directly to MIA. If your heart skips a beat over his sumptuous furniture and residential designs (count us in!), the Walker is your destination. Get all the details at www.walkerart.org or www.artsmia.org.
 

Psst! Our Little Secret

We’re entirely jazzed to co-sponsor AIA Minnesota’s inaugural Homes by Architects tour, September 20–21, partly because some of our favorite architects are playing along: Jean Rehkamp Larson, Geoff Warner, Dale Mulfinger, Charles Stinson, Dan Nepp, Christine Albertsson, David Salmela, and Tom Ellison. See for yourself these 29 livable, personal, and just simply amazing homes designed by Twin Cities architects. Buy tickets at www.homesbyarchitects.org.
 

Tour de Fabulous

It comes just once every two years, so don’t miss your chance to peek inside the homes and gardens of St. Paul’s historic Summit Hill neighborhood. This year’s September 14th tour features 12 historic homes, including the private retreat of architect David Heide and Michael Crull, who recently rehabbed their 1922 Prairie-style home. Also see the spirited garden of Jeanne and Rick Walsh, featured in the April issue of Midwest Home. Get all the dirt at www.summithillassociation.com.
 

Provided by Taunton Press

Don’t miss the special 10th anniversary edition of Sarah Susanka’s The Not So Big House, in bookstores September 23.

Provided by Todd Bertelson

SOLD!

Randy Moss has one less reason to visit Viking territory. Radiologist Sean Casey and his wife, Diana, just bought the football star’s 15,000-square-foot Medina rambler for $2,978,500, down significantly from the spring 2008 asking price of $3,995,000. The sprawling estate, built in 1986, sits on 6.31 wooded acres and features a wall-size golf simulator, a workout level with showers, lockers, sauna, massive indoor pool, and regulation-sized basketball and tennis courts, plus a surround-sound media room with projection TV. Casey, who owns a quarter of Virtual Radiologic Corporation (a high-tech company that uses proprietary software to analyze imaging data from CT scans, MRIs, and ultrasounds), founded the company in 1999 and led it through an initial public offering last November that raised $68 million. Now he has all the necessary tools for keeping himself healthy at home. (Sale completed by Todd and Mary Bertelson, ReMax Results.)

Provided by Jon Norris

HOT LISTING

The neighbors know it as the house with the mushroom-cap roof. Local historians know it as the 1919 Brooks house, a pitch-perfect example of the Tudor Revival style and one-time lake estate of Minneapolis banker Dwight Brooks. At Midwest Home, we know it best as the American Society of Interior Designers, Minnesota chapter, 2006 Showcase House, where interior design heavy-hitters such as Lola Watson, Laura Ramsey Engler, Letitia Little, and Karen Kinsella buffed and bedecked it back into fabulousness. The current owners—Warehouse District property manager John Stielow and his wife, Susan—live in 12,000 square feet of English Cotswald-style glamour with a carriage house, 3 acres of surrounding estate, and sublime views of Wayzata Bay. The house has served as a happy stomping ground for the seven Stielow kids, the youngest of whom is a high-schooler, but it is becoming too much “a labor of love,” Susan says. The Stielows put the house on the market for $9,000,000 in 2006; now they’re trying again with a more enticing price tag: $7,990,000. See all the photos at www.601bushawayrd.com.