Cake Design News: Sneak Peek: Andrew Call + Amy Livingston

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High school sweethearts Andrew and Amy have lived in this apartment in SE Portland with their two dogs, Leland and Burgundy, for the past three years. This peek came to us via Andrew's twin sister, Lucy Call, a photographer in Portland who wanted to document her brother and sister-in-law's apartment, where everything seems to have a story. They find things they like and just make them work together — like their nightstands, made from pieces of salvaged wood and dictionaries, which sit next to a giant piece of driftwood found on the Oregon coast. Andrew is a writer, working on his first novel, and Amy is working on a graduate degree in Montessori education. Andrew is an avid reader with hundreds of books, and he works them into the design of the apartment so that they don't feel overwhelming. Amy spent several months in Ghana working with deaf children, and she developed a real love for Ghanaian artwork and objects. The resulting layered, eclectic look just seems to work. Thanks, Amy and Andrew! And a big thank you to Lucy Call for the lovely photographs! — Amy Azzarito

Image above: The Portland sign was from two friends who hitchhiked from Arizona to Portland. It folds out and says, "What if we were your kids?" The driftwood was from the Oregon coast. Painting from Africa. Side table is leftover wood from a friend who worked at Goby Walnut Products, Inc., and the encyclopedias were found on the road.

Image above: The painting is by our good friend Morgan Richard Murphey, and it was a wedding present. The photo of the train was taken by Andrew Call at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The chess set is from Ghana, Africa. We went to the wood district in Accra (the capital of Ghana), where we found the chess set with a different board and talked the artist into selling us just the pieces. The coffee table that the chess set sits on was from a consignment shop in North Portland; it has the name of an army sergeant on the side.