“I’ve always lIked ethnIc, old
and beat-up pieces that have been handled and loved for a very long time,” explains the homeowner of a 6000-square-foot, 7-bedroom home in Evanston. To help her to decorate her new home, the owner called on Laura Soskin, of Laura Soskin Design in Wilmette. “Laura is like my design soulmate,” the homeowner says. “She’s very bold, and she loves very big things. We have the same design aesthetic, and she just knows how to bring a room, a home, to life.” The owner and Soskin first met years earlier when a mutual acquaintance commented about their shared
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appreciation for patina and texture. Feeling stymied about whether or not to buy an expensive Chinese medicine cabinet for a prior home, the homeowner decided to give Soskin a call. “I was so scared to commit to this piece that might really be the wrong thing,” the owner says. After a brief chat, Soskin visited the home and wound up staying for five hours. “Laura rearranged all the stuff that we had, and it looked unbelievable,” the homeowner says, noting that Soskin told her to nix the medicine cabinet, which did not fit the scale of the room. When the homeowner moved into her current home in 2011, she called on
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