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Houston Architect Bill Curtis’ Solo Watercolor Exhibition at C2 Art Advisors

Rebecca Sherman — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:02:32 +0000

Architect William “Bill” Curtis sees beauty in the overlooked and unexpected — sheets flapping in the breeze on a clothesline, a weathered metal bucket in front of a window, light raking across empty tables in a restaurant set for lunch. He paints thes...

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Interior Designer Catherine Brooks Giuffre Transforms Her West University House Into an Intimate Family Nest

Rebecca Sherman — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:26:38 +0000

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’...

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Dallas Designer Jean Liu Gives a Traditional University Park Home a Glamorous Glow Up

Rebecca Sherman — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:46:51 +0000

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...

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Vladimir Kagan’s Famous Furniture Lives On Thanks to Longtime Protégé Chris Eitel

Rebecca Sherman — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:58:42 +0000

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...

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Inspired by a Parisian Apartment, Palm Beach and Tangiers: Inside Merry and Chad Vose’s Vibrant Haven in Dallas

Rebecca Sherman — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:45:47 +0000

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...

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Farrow & Ball’s Latest Wallpaper Collection Adds French Villa Vibes to Any Space

Rebecca Sherman — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:24:06 +0000

Farrow & Ball’s new wallpaper collection, The Purnon Papers, is inspired by patterns from Château de Purnon, a magnificent but crumbling estate built in 1788 in the Loire Valley. Once home to Antoine-Charles Achard, the Marquis de la Haye, the cha...

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A 1933 Fort Worth Home is Transformed for a Pair of Young Manhattan Expats

Rebecca Sherman — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:18:17 +0000

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...

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Emily Summers Designs Nirvana in New York

Rebecca Sherman — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:16:03 +0000

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 ...

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Bunny Williams on How to Train Your Garden

Rebecca Sherman — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:14:36 +0000

The heartfelt new book, Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden (Rizzoli, $60) has been 40 years in the making. That’s how long the renowned interior designer has spent cultivating her gardens at the 19th century house in the Connecticut Berkshires she shar...

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Swoon, the Studio is Curating a Shoppable World of Cool

Rebecca Sherman — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:37:34 +0000

Is there anything that local design house Swoon, the Studio, doesn’t do brilliantly? Since the firm’s inception in 2009, founder Sam Sano and principal Joslyn Taylor have built a boutique powerhouse focused on interiors for residential, commercial, and...

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Renowned Brit Wallpaper Brand De Gournay Embraces the Texas Hill Country

Rebecca Sherman — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:56:42 +0000

De Gournay, the London company famous for hand-painted and embroidered chinoiserie and scenic wallpapers, has introduced two charming designs inspired by the wild and varied Texas landscape. Hill Country Scenic’s atmospheric panorama depicts deer and h...

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The Allure of Auberge

Rebecca Sherman — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:17:32 +0000

Houston automobile tycoon and film producer Dan Friedkin, who became chairman of the California-based Auberge Resorts in 2013, has launched an impressive rollout of Texas properties, including the acclaimed Commodore Perry Estate in Austin and Bowie Ho...

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A Hidden Charles Dilbeck Home Undergoes a Stunning Refresh in Dallas

Rebecca Sherman — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:13:52 +0000

Designer Philip Thomas Vanderford recalls the first time he saw his client’s house in Bluffview. “I pulled up to the gate, and I could barely see the house,” he says. “The front yard was like a football field.” Set at the far end of almost two acres of...

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Beloved Dallas Bedding Brand Peacock Alley Kicks Off a Charming New Chapter in a Historic Uptown Home

Rebecca Sherman — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:11:16 +0000

If your 2024 resolution includes getting more sleep, Peacock Alley can help with that. The homegrown linens brand, which celebrated its 50-year anniversary last fall, kicked off 2024 with a new flagship showroom in Uptown that’s roomy enough to k...

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Salient Obsessions — Dallas Textile Designer Lisa Fine Launches Wallpaper

Rebecca Sherman — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:33:22 +0000

Dallas textile designer Lisa Fine’s exotic hand-blocked, chintz, moire, and ikat fabrics are carried in showrooms around the world — and now she’s launched her first wallpaper design, Persian Garden, created in collaboration with Italy’s legendar...

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How Mirador’s Sweeping and ‘Re-Energizing’ Renovation Came Together

Rebecca Sherman — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:46:04 +0000

The lights are back on at Mirador. Forty Five Ten’s stylish penthouse restaurant, which closed in 2020 at the start of the pandemic, has reopened with a ravishing new look and a menu of favorite dishes from executive chef Travis Wyatt. Mirador’s ...

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Peacock Alley is Celebrating 50 Years With a New Dallas Flagship in a Historic Uptown Home

Rebecca Sherman — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:00:11 +0000

Peacock Alley is celebrating a remarkable 50 years in business by launching a new flagship showroom in Uptown, set to open in February. The family-owned linens brand is relocating its longtime Dallas Design District showroom to a renovated circa 1900 h...

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Inside Dallas Designer Cathy Kincaid’s Perfect Holiday House in Highland Park

Rebecca Sherman — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:36:10 +0000

Christmas 2012 is one that interior designer Cathy Kincaid will never forget. After a fire destroyed her house — taking with it many of her furnishings, along with her Christmas tree and ornaments — she was forced to move into a rental. Although she wa...

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Discover 25 Years of Droese Raney Architecture With the Dallas-Based Firm’s First Book

Rebecca Sherman — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:40:01 +0000

Droese and Lance Raney have teamed with some outstanding clients over the decades, including tastemaker and retailer Brian Bolke, fashion designer Billy Reid, and art collector and philanthropist Howard Rachofsky. These and other collaborations have pr...

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Inside a Cozy, 100-Year-Old Pied à Terre in Highland Park by Dallas Designer Joseph Minton

Rebecca Sherman — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:55:43 +0000

“When I think of David Arrington, I think of somebody who’s a lot of fun,” designer Joseph Minton says of his longtime client, Midland oilman David H. Arrington, whose storied oil and gas exploits in the Permian Basin and the Barnett Shale have b...

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