Author: Rebecca Sherman

During the last 15 years, interior designer Catherine Brooks Giuffre and her husband, Dean Giuffre — a vice president with RealFin Capital Partners — have lived together in five different houses and remodeled them all, including three in Houston’…

A traditional red brick house built in 1999 wasn’t what Jean Liu’s clients were looking for when they started house-hunting. “They wanted something much more contemporary and lighter and brighter,” Liu remembers. “But they were initially drawn to the h…

Vladimir Kagan’s earliest works — a table and chair he designed for his parents’ house in 1947 —  were relaunched this April, eight years to the month after his death in 2016 at age 88. The First Table and Chair’s thin, flared legs evoke th…

As a retailer, Merry Vose travels frequently to buy for her trio of stylish clothing boutiques, Cabana, Canary, and Clover. She’s in Paris at least four times a year, often accompanied by her close friend, interior designer Julie Hayes, who shops the f…

Kit Ulrich’s heartwarming introduction to her new neighborhood in Fort Worth is like a scene from a Hallmark movie. It was late January 2018, and she and her husband, Will Ulrich, along with their two small children, had recently arrived from Manhattan…

Emily Summers designs an Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan with exceptional furniture and art for a Dallas collector couple. Traveling to New York City used to be all business for a Dallas collector and former art dealer. “I was in New York a lot …