KCAI design prof’s awesome loft makes Design*Sponge

Jamie Gray, an assistant professor in the Graphic Design Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, is living right — or with a lot of sexy right angles, anyway. The River Market loft she shares with her husband gets the 13-photo treatment in a September 14 post on the trend-spotting, envy-inducing Web site Design*Sponge. With its glossy surfaces, sharp corners and subtle curves — not to mention the abstract art and the posters from Poland (how do you say cowboy in Polish?) — the place looks exactly the way you’d hope a graphic-design expert’s home would.

The best part (for anyone not living in the apartment, that is): Gray’s explanation of her interior design includes some local shouts out. Retro Inferno! (Office chairs.) Interstate 70! (The hanging tumbleweed, taken right off the side of the highway.)

The effort and expense are obvious, but before you go road-tripping to an Ikea or raiding your savings, heed Gray’s offhand explanation of the orderly little assemblage in her living room: “The Tendo Mokko rocker and teak nesting tables are a few of our many eBay finds.” Good advice. And it leaves room in your trunk for tumbleweeds.

(photo from Design*Sponge)