Article: Floor show: using cork, tile, and linoleum, Laurie Crogan lays extraordinary groundwork. (Home).(Inlay Floors)

WHEN LAURIE CROGAN WALKS INTO a room, you notice. She's the incandescent smart blond whose looks mix the best of Candice Bergen and Laura Dern, the one apt to grab friends and put them in very slow-release headlock hugs, the one swaddled in her own artistry There's the gold half sovereign she's made into a delicate ring, the regal 22-karat drop earrings she fashioned from the behind-the-counter cache at a favorite bead shop, the fawn-colored shoulder bag she lined with apple green silk and festooned with pheasant feathers. "Isn't this fabulous?" she asks, as though the bag spontaneously generated and hung itself from her fingers. Indeed it is, but more striking is that ...

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