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LIFESTYLE LETTER

The Making of a Home

March 2022 PUBLISHER

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March is our annual Home & Design issue, which naturally has us wondering what exactly makes a place a home? Does it have to be a rooted place or can you carry the feeling of home wherever you go? During one challenging year in my early twenties, I moved several times. With each transition, my boxes got a little lighter as I discarded more things that I realized I no longer needed. That year, I learned a home was something transportable, fluid and ever-changing. Years later when our family moved to a different country, the thought resurfaced when we talked about how we felt that no matter where we were in the world, if we were together at night then we were home. From the furniture, art and rugs that we curate to the ways we build green, our homes can be a reflection of our individuality and spirit. As you flip through the following pages, you’ll see both small and big ways people are creating captivating and inviting spaces. When we dig deeper, we see it’s not about the materialness of it all, but rather it’s about the feeling a space or item evokes. Wherever you hang your hat tonight, I wish you a place filled with love, peace and happiness.

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22 Big Flavor; Low Miles

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Ninety Percent of Farow’s Ingredients Come From Within 10 Miles

City Scene

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28 Gold Level Beer

Aspen Brewing Company Crafts Small Batch Brew and Big Mountain Lifestyle

32 A Walk Among the Wallflowers

Boulder Designer Edie Ure Proves Nature Is the Ultimate Muse With Her Fresh, Forward-Thinking Fabrics and Wallpapers

40 An Artful Toast

Serving Ritual Through Handmade Wares

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business monthly A round-up of exciting news from local businesses. Photography @immersivefrida / Kyle Flubacker

Immersive Frida Kahlo Immersive Frida Kahlo is the newest immersive experience from Lighthouse Immersive and Italy’s Massimiliano Siccardi, renowned Master of Digital Art. Recognized for its raw emotional vitality, vibrant color work and unflinching intimacy, Kahlo’s work bridges surrealist and magic realism traditions. The Two Fridas (1939), The Wounded Deer (1946), and Diego and I (1946) are among the works featured in the piece. For more information about Immersive Frida Kahlo, visit Immersive-Frida.com.

E79 is Moving AND Turning 5! For the entire month of March, Element 79 Contemporary Jewelry will be celebrating two events: a move to a larger location up the street (2703 East Third Avenue) and its fifth anniversary! Join in on the fun with 10% off the entire store and up to 50% off select items. With over 60 designers on sale—including all jewelry and lifestyle objects—this is a great opportunity to purchase pieces you’ve been coveting!

Dairy Block Hosting 4th Annual Petite Parade on Sunday, March 6 Celebrate a Mile High Mardi Gras at Dairy Block’s 4th annual Petite Parade on Sunday, March 6 from noon–3 p.m. Attendees are invited to “laissez les bons temps rouler” by building a creative float starting with a shoebox base. Free & open to all, the 2022 Dairy Block Petite Parade will also feature live entertainment and prizes for Most Original Float, Best Team Theme, Best Family Float and Funniest Float. DairyBlock.com/Events/ 4th-Annual-Petite-Parade/

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Spring Wellness Reset in Cherry Creek North

Beaver Creek Resort Unveils McCoy Park

Featuring more than two dozen health and wellness destinations, Cherry Creek North is the wellness hub of Denver, making it the ideal destination to reinvigorate wellness goals with a spring reset. Denver’s most vibrant mixed-use neighborhood offers everything from float studios, cryotherapy, aestheticians, nutrition consultants and personal trainers to some of the most iconic national fitness studios including Barrys, Soul Cycle and Pure Barre. CherryCreekNorth.com

Beaver Creek Resort opened its brand-new beginner and intermediate learning terrain, McCoy Park, on Jan. 10. As the resort’s newest signature terrain experience, McCoy Park offers 250 acres of natural groomable glade skiing and snowboarding in a serene bowl environment. The McCoy Park investment is a commitment by Beaver Creek Resort and Vail Resorts to the guest experience, and the expansion provides oneof-a-kind dedicated, family-friendly, learning terrain.

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A Painted Language Artist Karen Scharer delivers new work to SmithKlein Gallery for the month of March. Her work portrays a poetic dance on canvas with oil paint and a palette knife; her paintings are dynamic, fluid and sensual. Karen Scharer’s work appeals to many people by using her ability to create a language through her art that encourages, inspires and uplifts. Karen Scharer | Lucky Streak 40 x 60 | Oil on Canvas

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NINETY PERCENT OF FAROW’S INGREDIENTS COME FROM WITHIN 10 MILES OF THE NIWOT RESTAURANT

ARTICLE BY ALLYSON REEDY | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELLIE HARRIS

BIG FLAVOR; LOW MILES

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I want to tell you about Farow’s Moroccan carrots, charred and served over pistachio tahini and warm, toasty spices, and the super tender steak, raised up the road in Longmont and served with sweet caramelized onions and a strata of marrow potatoes, but, because husband and wife team Patrick and Lisa Balcom change up the menu so frequently depending on what’s available around them, it would be kind of rude of me to flaunt dishes you may not be able to eat yourself, wouldn’t it? The good news, though, is that you might find something even better, or, at the very least, just as local, fresh and mouthwatering, since nearly everything coming out of the Niwot restaurant’s kitchen is a winner. CONTINUED >

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The quick description of Farow is that it’s a contemporary American, small plate restaurant, where the vast majority—the restaurant aims for 90 percent—of ingredients come from within 10 miles of their Niwot spot. But anyone who knows anything about growing and preparing well-cared for and well-executed food knows that there’s not really anything quick about it. Take the focaccia bread. Lisa spends three days on it, using Moxie Bread Co.’s organic heirloom flour to achieve the airy pockets of buttery, rosemary goodness. And it’s not like a strata of marrow potatoes assembles themselves, people. Patrick and Lisa, who worked at Blackbelly (Patrick as executive sous chef and Lisa as pastry chef) before opening up Farow on their own this past September, work hard to ensure that their food is not only tasty, but that it supports the kind of local, sustainable food system that we need. Hence that Longmont meat from Buckner Family Farm that you’ll always find on the menu—although the accompanying strata of marrow potatoes isn’t a guarantee. (Sorry.) And while Farow’s menu is small, when I visited there were just 13 total items on the dinner list, the vegetable selection is mighty. Besides those carrots with the pistachio tahini, there was also a parsnip and potato soup, a cabbage and radish heavy red posole, a mixed greens salad, mushroom cavatelli and a cacio y pepe made with spiralized rutabaga “pasta.” Staff advises two to three plates per person, or there’s also a $75 six-course tasting menu, which, thankfully, includes dessert. If you eat one thing at Farow, make it dessert. And if it’s available, make it the almond pound cake with sherry roasted dates, whipped crème fraiche and sweet sherry-butter sauce. The slab of rich, almondy cake soaks up all that sauce, and it’s topped on one side with decadent dates and on the other with ethereal cream. If you’re in the area in the a.m. hours, Lisa’s doughnut of the day, seasonal scone and coffee cake all look pretty incredible, too. Again, my apologies if I’ve got you craving pound cake, pistachio tahini carrots, and marrow potatoes and you drive on over to Farow only to find other, non-pound cake, non-pistachio tahini, non-marrow potato dishes (that I trust will be just as good) on the menu. But here’s an advantage you’ll have over my freezing, snowy January dinner: that patio. Once the weather warms up, Farow’s spacious patio is going to be where you want to be all spring and summer long. Maybe I’ll see you there. Farowrestaurant.com

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Gold Level Beer

ASPEN BREWING COMPANY CRAFTS SMALL BATCH BREW AND BIG MOUNTAIN LIFESTYLE

ARTICLE BY JESSICA MORDACQ PHOTOGRAPHY BY POPPY & CO. BY KELSEY HUFFER

LOCA LY SOU R CE D | FOOD + BE VE RAGE

Aspen Brewing Company is the only licensed brewery in Aspen, population around 7,000. It might seem strange that a destination town like Aspen only has one brewery, but the town is notoriously choosy about its businesses. “To do business in Aspen, you almost have to prove you can’t afford to,” says Don Bryant, Aspen Brewing Company’s CEO. Now a local trademark, Aspen Brewing worked to earn the town’s blessing for more than a year. At first, Aspen’s community was skeptical of a potential big business takeover. But with the town’s alpine location complicating shipping and limiting water supply—breweries there are bound by the finite water supply the surrounding mountains offer—the brewery’s enthusiasm proved authentic. “You have to do it because you love it,” Don says, which is exactly what Aspen Brewing did. Duncan Clauss, a University of Colorado Boulder graduate and home brewer whose family had lived in Aspen for generations, started Aspen Brewing with his brother and sister in 2008, building a brand around Aspen’s mountain lifestyle, as well as a brewing location and public tasting room near the airport. Don bought Aspen Brewing in 2020 and Capitol Creek in 2021. At the foot of the Elk Mountain Range, Aspen Brewing’s taproom at 121 S. Galena St. fits seamlessly into the town’s skiing, snowboarding, climbing and biking community and aims to become a landmark around all things Roaring Fork Valley.

GOLD LEVEL In January 2020, the International Mountain Bicycling Association awarded Roaring Fork Valley a Gold Level Ride Center for its varied terrain skill levels and hundreds of quality trail miles. The association designated the valley Bronze Level in 2014, but land managers and community advocates have campaigned to bump up the rating for years to be included in one of the seven Gold Level mountain biking centers around the world. To celebrate the success, Aspen Brewing’s newest beer, Gold Level (out this spring), is a collaboration with its sister company Capitol Creek Brewery

that lauds the area’s mountain biking community and will only be distributed to local establishments around Roaring Fork Valley. Gold Level is brewed with Motueka and Rakau hops harvested from New Zealand, one of the other locations with a Gold Level designation. Colorado produces a similar amount of beer with these hops as New Zealand does, making the state somewhat of a Napa Valley of brewing. Aspen Brewing and Capitol Creek bought the dry-hopped lager’s malt from local, fifth-generation farmers at Root Shoot Malting in Loveland. Like the sister establishments, Root Shoot values the way these smaller craft breweries build mystique around limited releases for locals. When tourists can’t drink a certain beer outside Aspen Brewing’s taproom, it unites the community around what’s special in their town, both inside and outside the brewery. Gold Level, for example, “is meant to celebrate the Elk Mountain Range and the Roaring Fork Valley, and to bring people together, not just in our tap rooms,” says Ryan Williams, director of marketing at Aspen Brewing. The seasonally rotated and limitedly available 10th Mountain Imperial Stout, which brewers took out of bourbon barrels the day before my call with Aspen Brewing, is only available at the company’s taproom and Capitol Creek. The beer celebrates the 10th Mountain Division that manages backcountry huts in Aspen, among other area mountain towns, for skiers, snowshoers and hikers. Aspen Brewing commercially produces and distributes only six types of canned beers a year at stores like Safeway, and around 30 styles a year for their taproom. The companies’ two head brewers lead production of 3,500 barrels brewed with Colorado mountain water a year, half of which are consumed at their two restaurants. Aspen Brewing and Capitol Creek honor their staff and the art of brewing by holding events with almost 90 staff members to celebrate them, offering the option for every one of them to spend a day with one of the companies’ brewers and learn their craft. AspenBrewingCo.com

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A WA L K AMONG THE WA L L F L O W E R S

Boulder Designer Edie Ure Proves Nature Is the Ultimate Muse With Her Fresh, Forward-Thinking Fabrics and Wallpapers

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ARTICLE BY KATHERINE OWEN PHOTOGRAPHY BY EDIE URE

For Edie Ure, a Boulder-based designer and natural dyer, her experimentation with natural dyes started not in the foothills of Colorado’s Front Range where she grows and gathers her materials today, but thousands of miles away, as part of her fashion studies at Central Saint Martins in London. “We were all highly experimental,” she recounts. “We buried fabrics in the soil for six months to see how they decomposed and printed iron dust onto fabric so that it would rust. It was there that I first experimented with natural dyes, like painting stains using wine tanin, henna and mud onto a jacket for designer Koji Tatsuno.” After school, Edie went on to work as a textile designer in New York, creating prints for the likes of Calvin Klein and Ulla Johnson, among many others. But an eventual move to Boulder brought her back to nature and all the colors, textures and lessons from it. A class on natural dyes reignited her interest, and she began experimenting once again. “It is a very sensory experience,” she explains. “The process of extracting color from natural dye stuff is much like cooking; sometimes it involves more complex recipes and often boiling or soaking the pigment out of the dye stuff. But unlike food, we are not drawing out flavor but instead color.”

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Edie says dyes can be found in all corners of the natural world: everything from insects to weeds, tree bark to flowers, seeds to fruit and vegetables. With botanical dyes, the color obtained is not only non-toxic but also more vibrant, as evidenced in Edie’s richly hued silk velvet pillows. More recently, she’s expanded into wallpapers with enchanting floral designs made from flowers she finds, grows and arranges into intricate patterns. Her “Wildflower” wallpaper is designed from pressed flowers she collected in the foothills and has a symmetry and form reminiscent of the Art Nouveau era of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe. For Edie, her work is “a marriage of two worlds”: textile print design and experimenting with nature. “Everything I design or make has an environmental connection,” Edie says. “If I find a wildflower when I’m hiking, I’ll put it in a book to press it and later use it in a pattern. I collect earth from riverbeds and trails across New Mexico and Colorado to paint with or charcoal from a burn area to draw with. This makes up the whole ecosystem of my work.” In recent years, her practice has grown even deeper roots. At the beginning of 2020, Edie began gardening, growing both her own food and dye plants. In the last two years she has filled her backyard with harvests of Japanese indigo, the leaves of which she then processes into indigo pigment. “Growing a garden for food and dye plants has been a real joy and a good measure of time, witnessing the transformations that seasons bring and working on nature’s schedule,” Edie says. “Digging in the soil, weeding and watering has provided comfort and a good understanding of my place in the world.” When others bring her creations into their homes, it’s a chance to share that comfort and connection. “I want to reconnect people to the natural world through their senses by putting nature in the center,” she says. “Using the natural colors of earth, flowers and indigo in the home, alongside other natural resources like wood, stone, marble and even metals, makes for a happy balance of materials and a calm home.” Find Edie’s pillows on her website, edieure.com, and at Sacred Thistle in Denver and Hygge Life in Eagle-Vail. All wallpapers are available through Denver showroom Walltawk (walltawk.com) or on her website.

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“I want to reconnect people to the natural world through their senses by putting nature in the center.”

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On any given day, you will find Kelsey Julian and Dillon Canfield in their Longmont basement-turned-workshop, where they design and execute bespoke ceramic collections. The former architects have developed functional art that is to be sipped and savored from but can impressively stand on its own as visual totems. With precision and play at the heart of their craft, the duo has been delivering stunning wares via their online store, pop-up shops and the Kirkland Museum gift shop in Denver since 2021. portrait credit: Parrish Ruiz de Velasco

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“The stackable First Aid tumblers, where there is a precision of the foot, is something you wouldn't be able to do on a wheel. Our process allows ease to these refined, small details,” says Kelsey. All of this happens subterranean in the couple’s home, and the results are stunning. Think Charles and Ray Eamesstyle ramekins and bowls with the organic texture of clay stoneware. Their designs—and vernacular—are evidence of having architectural backgrounds as they describe the polyvalent (two-faced) characteristics of the pieces reminiscent of a modern building’s edges. They play nice with other relics, too, showing off their distinct varietal textures balanced with neutral colorways— and look especially nice on an open shelf. “A lot of our stuff could function well in tea ceremonies or as everyday pieces,” Dillon shares, “and if left out, still looks beautiful.” What we love is the invitation their work carries to turn an everyday espresso drink or an icy nightcap into an artful ritual. Dillon and Kelsey celebrate this idea of surrounding oneself with beautiful things because it can ignite more creativity. With a capacity to create original designs and molds, their future goals are to be in more food-driven environments, collaborating on centerpieces and custom wares for Denver’s restaurants and beyond. Pleased with the hands-on process of making accessible creations as well as building a local and scalable business, See Saw Ceramics seems to be the highest on the playground.

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The two met while attending the University of Tennessee, where a budding romance began and has since sprung into a business venture. Upon graduation, they relocated to Colorado and found careers at architecture firms. After a few years, they felt called elsewhere, with COVID acting as an impetus to take the leap into ceramics. Their time spent with clay and making molds at Longmont’s local Tinkermill activated an artful curiosity, which blossomed into See Saw Ceramics. "We are officially free-falling,” Dillon says, with a playful smile. As avid entertainers and lovers of all things food and drink, there is a thoughtfulness to the host and guests who they are creating for. The Ridgeline Bowls are inspired by traditional Japanese matcha bowls, called chawan, while the everyday mugs are personalized with circular handles and autumnal copper and white glazes. Each good they produce finds harmony in their respective collections, but when looked at closely carry details of individuality. Ideated and completed entirely at home, they begin their process by creating a 3D printed prototype that they can hold and gauge before moving into the mold-making stage. Mold parts are printed and then cast in silicone. The silicone is now the mother mold from which multiple plaster molds can be made. The final steps are glazing and decorating, using a range of techniques before hitting the kiln. Their design style is free-form, but the craftspersonship is challenged by making precise molds and mastering this execution.

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In 2015, frequenters to Home-Barista.com—a website for coffee and espresso enthusiasts with a forum where they chat about the best at-home brewing products and techniques—posted about the need for a quality espresso maker not requiring electricity. They wanted a product they could pack up and take with them camping or on off-grid trips, but that could also profile its own pressure and last a lifetime. Texas-based engineer Andre Vornbrock accepted the challenge, developed his passion project, and set out to craft a manual machine that could produce the perfect amount of frothy crema atop an espresso shot. After months building in his garage, Andre delivered the first version of Espresso Forge to Home-Barista.com and sold around 50 off the product website. With Andre on the right track, Home-Barista.com’s forums served as a way for him to receive honest, public feedback, inspiring improvements for his following three iterations of Espresso Forge. With the release of Espresso Forge’s fourth version, espresso brewers and drinkers agreed the product created the perfect espresso shot. Dwight DeBroux, who bought the product’s second iteration, wanted to carry on the legacy and purchased Espresso

Forge in July to take it beyond online forums. “I believe everyone deserves a great shot of espresso,” Dwight says, who previously co-owned, and was barista at, three of Vic’s Espresso locations in Boulder and Louisville. Dwight formed a powerhouse team of experienced coffee drinkers and brewers, including himself, Shawn Neer and Mike Murfit, who co-founded Traction Coffee Roasters in Longmont. Together, they relaunched Espresso Forge on November 1, releasing product improvements and manufacturing in Boulder County. With a small amount of pressure, the Espresso Forge’s solid, stainless steel brew path pushes water through a commercial-size, 58-millimeter basket for a quality espresso shot. The portable, manual machine can be purchased online at espressoforge.com or at all five Ozo Coffee locations, the company’s only current in-store retail option. At $395, the Espresso Forge is cherished by the online home barista community, as well as those who aspire to #vanlife or take off-grid trips, since the machine is portable and a way to enter the high-end espresso market without spending thousands on an industrial machine.

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THE RELAUNCH Though Home-Barista.com forums decided the fourth version of the Espresso Forge, tweaked with the community’s suggestions, was perfect, Andre, the owner of a large tech company, had no real desire to turn his product into a business. “He just wanted to see if he could do it,” Dwight says. “He sold a bunch, then mysteriously stopped. He did a mic drop.” Dwight, who brews himself and his wife shots with his Espresso Forge every morning, and his friends—some of whom have the first Espresso Forge iteration—wanted to purchase a more-recent version of Andre’s invention. After they were added to a six-month-long waitlist and Dwight reached out to see what was going on, he ended up buying the company from Andre. Dwight, Shawn and Mike have made a few improvements to the machine, including a grooved, metal band along the bottom that keeps your hands from getting too hot.

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The previous versions also had plastic handles, which they changed to extend the product’s sustainability and longevity. Together, the team designed an aluminum handle instead, engraved with Espresso Forge’s logo. “In a time where we’re full of disposables, we’re proud to sell a made-for-life item. It’s a solid stainless product,” Dwight says. When they bought Espresso Forge in July, they also bought the code to make the product’s commercial parts with CNC machines in a Boulder-based manufacturing facility. Since then, the company sources food-grade steel and mills it in Boulder to create the Espresso Forge. Dwight and team plan to expand the number of brick-andmortar stores offering Espresso Forge, in addition to selling online to home-brewers around the world. With Andre’s loyal forum following, some Espresso Forge fans extend as far as Italy and Budapest.

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Artisan Rugs Rug making is an art, one that can take weavers months to years to complete. From straightening and dying wool to weaving it into a final product, the process takes creativity and skill, but the end result is a beautiful work of art used to transform a space. At Artisan Rug Gallery, each artistic rug is handpicked from around the world and used by clients to create a beautiful, unique home to live in and share with others. Jeff Deutsch launched the business more than 30 years ago as a way to make money in college and fund his travels. While spending time working at a ski resort in South America, he stumbled upon vendor markets in Otavalo, a city in Ecuador. Primed with various artisans selling wood carvings, weavings and everything in between, Jeff had an idea—he could buy a selection of items and sell them back home in the United States. “After I had decided to start the process of importing these completely exotic crafts, I began actively looking for other markets and scouring them for more unique and different things—always with an eye on the main goal of long treks and mountains to climb,” Jeff says. “I went to Huaraz, Cusco and La Paz for the mountains but left with an indelible mark on my soul from not just the mountains, but the people and their artistic nature. There was poverty, but they were rich with art. After my first trip, I had an incurable need to travel. At 22 years old, normal life didn't seem to work for me anymore. What began as a way to make a little extra money for college became an avenue for more travel.” As Jeff continued to travel, he kept one eye on adventure and the other on local artisans “that

made up the cultural fabric and artistic nature of these countries,” he says. Upon returning to the States, Jeff would sell his international finds at festivals in Crested Butte. By 1991, he opened his first storefront there selling home décor and accessories, clothing, jewelry, rugs and furniture, offering customers a glimpse into life, culture and art overseas. In 2001, he and his wife Tiffany decided to focus solely on rugs. “As we grew and matured, rugs became the items that we wanted to be known for. They last forever and you can really get to know people by the types of rugs they buy and the discussions that occur while showing the rugs,” Jeff says. “They are not disposable items. They last as long as the client wants to keep them, then they can be passed on to another user. In this day and age, that is something we are proud of.” Today, Artisan Rug Gallery has three locations in Denver, Crested Butte and Charlotte, North Carolina catering to anyone wanting to personalize their home. From the abstract black and white options to colorful ones woven in Afghanistan, the wool and silk rugs come in various sizes, styles and colors to fit clients’ needs. What began as a desire to travel has led to a 30-year-old business curating rugs and connecting with vendors from around the world. Jeff and Tiffany say their love of travel is still there, but their showroom, team and the beautiful rugs that surround them drive them each and every day. “Life is what you make of it, and this is what we made of it, and we couldn't be happier about it,” Jeff says. ArtisanRugGallery.com

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“As we grew and matured, rugs became the items that we wanted to be known for. They last forever and you can really get to know people by the types of rugs they buy and the discussions that occur while showing the rugs,” Jeff says.

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