An Artist’s Standish Home Is Her Canvas
By Sarah StebbinsPhotos by Rachel SiebenFrom our July 2024 issue When Mercedes Foss told her now-husband, Jacob Akers, she wanted to cover their bathroom walls in copper sheeting, he was skeptical. “That doesn’t seem normal,” he said. To which Foss responded, “Who said I wanted to be normal?” She’d fallen for their 1904 home on…