Growing up in Paris, the riddle of fashion and design will dream. But he knew that he would have to break into the industry, he would have to leave the house for a distant large city. That’s because his hometown was not Paris, France. It was Paris, Ohio, population 5,600.
Mr. Riddle got his first taste of city life when he studied fashion design at Kent State University, about 20 minutes from the medium -sized Ohio -Stad Akron. After graduating, he moved directly to New York and landed in a series of tight Brooklyn rental apartments and fashion jobs with high wattage at 3.1 Phillip Lim, Oscar de la Renta and the Streetwear brand Kith.
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“New York was clear where to go,” said Mr. Riddle, 37. “There is no other place.”
So he was surprised when he started to feel back home. The stress of the rat race did not help. Ten years after he moved to New York City, he started investigating what types of fashion and design tracks can exist in Ohio, closer to his family and the comfort of home.
An answer came in the form of Arhaus, the high-end furniture retailer who not only had head office just outside Akron, but also recruitment in New York City. In July 2022 Mr. Riddle back home and first lived in his parents ‘house, an hour from Arhaus’ head office. In October he bought a Tudor house from 1923 in Akron and started to date an old knowledge, Ed Stockhausen.
Mr Stockhausen, a resident of Cleveland, had spent eight years in Columbus, Ohio, as a lawyer for lobbyist and public policy. But as his parents got older, he also felt forced to return home.
“I wanted to have more good years with them as they got older,” said Mr Stockhausen, 40. Now he owned his own piece of historical real estate – an American foursquare house in the Detroit Shoreway district in Detroit Shoreway, near the center.
In 2024, after two years of commuting between their two houses, the couple was ready to enter together. If they both sold their houses, they could pay up to around $ 500,000 for a new house, with more remaining for renovations.
They chose Cleveland above Akron, both for the vicinity of the Lord Stockhausen family and for the community they had already cultivated. “We have many friends here,” said Mr Stockhausen. “There was something very attractive about it that stay close.”
They wanted a house that represented the rich architectural heritage of Cleveland, which, among others, Beaux doctor, Victorian Italian and Midden-Modern Modern spans.
“I felt very strong about not living in a new building, or a Ryan house, or a CUL-de-SAC Cookie-Cutter kind of thing,” said Mr. Riddle. The house they chose would have history and character. Both men had done considerable renovations on their own houses and were not afraid to buy a home that needed work. Enough space for entertaining and overnight guests, as well as a garden for their two dogs, Franklin and Rockefeller, were also essential.
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