Posts from November 2017

Designer and antiques dealer Michael Trapp traces his current career to his early family experience.

"My parents couldn't let me take art in high school," he said. "It was a pent-up frustration that exploded in all directions."

Those directions include interior, landscape and architectural design, dealing in antiques and an architectural salvage business. "It's all basically the same kind of thing," he said, "except that I do both inside and outside design, which most people don't do."

His direction in life started early. His military family moved frequently before eventually settling in Ohio where he studied landscape architecture and design...