ABOUT US
Frank & Margaret opened its doors in November of 2007 in Wichita’s historic College Hill neighborhood. The store is the brainchild of Emily Christensen, whose love of beautiful objects and twentieth-century design inspired her to combine the two in a thoroughly eclectic storefront that reflects a style she terms “offbeat chic” (or simply “everything I love”).

Frank & Margaret reflects Emily’s passionate belief that a home should be furnished and decorated with care and individualism, that no matter the preferred style of the homeowner

Emily moved to Wichita in 1998 and attended Wichita State University, where she first trained as a journalist. In between internships at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Wichita Eagle, and KMUW, she worked for several small local businesses. A native St. Louisan, Emily has now spent her entire adult life in Kansas and has no plans to leave. She now devotes her writing talents to the Frank & Margaret weblog, Offbeat Chic [link].

So who are Frank & Margaret? (Don’t worry: we get that question a lot.) Frank and Margaret Koehler are Emily’s maternal grandparents. Frank Koehler was born in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, attended seminary at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, and spent his  pastoral career in Virginia, most notably at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Hopewell and St. Paul’s in the tiny town of Meherrin, where he met Emily’s grandmother. Margaret Price Koehler was a witty woman who attended the College of William and Mary and devoted herself to her husband’s congregations and their four daughters (Louise, Doris, Frances, and Emily’s mother, also a Margaret).

Frank & Margaret were married for more than sixty years. Frank Koehler died in 20xx at the age of 9x. Margaret followed in 20xx; she was 9x. They were both great advocates of hard work, devotion, and thrift, and blessings to their family and hundreds of others.