Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
When Mil Bodron and Svend Fruit founded their Dallas design and architecture firm in 1998, the city’s remarkable modernist houses were being demolished with alarming frequency. The firm quickly became a voice for the modernist movement, teaming with li…
Read MoreOne evening in early June, Robert Bellamy puttered through the gardens, clippers in hand, looking for spent blooms. The delicate climbing roses he had carefully transplanted in winter had begun to migrate across Tower House’s dusky pink stucco exterior…
Read MoreOlivia Persia loves old houses. “I can’t see myself living in something new,” says the 34-year-old interior designer, who moved into a 1939 residence in Houston’s Southampton neighborhood five years ago with her husband, an oil …
Read MoreA rare tableware service sketched in 1989 by artist Donald Judd was never produced, and the designs languished in the artist’s archives for almost 30 years after his death in 1994. Now a collaboration between Donald Judd Foundation and French silversmi…
Read MoreFor more than three decades, Nick Brock Antiques was housed in a charming old shop on Henderson Avenue, its vibrant yellow door cheerfully beckoning. The designer-loved Brock, who specializes in rarefied antiques and decorative arts from the 16th to th…
Read MoreTwo years ago, Cody Fitzsimmons got a tip from a friend about a special townhouse coming on the market in Houston’s Memorial neighborhood. Designed by late modernist Preston Bolton, the architecturally significant home would likely be snapped up even b…
Read MorePark House Houston, a private social club inspired by London’s new wave of stylish members-only social hangouts, is slated to open in December. As a sister club to the wildly successful Park House Dallas, which currently has a waitlist of more than 5,0…
Read MoreArchitect David Stocker’s office is just minutes from a favorite house he designed two decades ago in Highland Park, and he often drives by to see how it’s holding up. “The goal for an architect is to have a house you still love after 20 years,” he say…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever visited Caitlin Wilson’s charming Henderson Avenue store, you know she’s all about making things pretty. That’s the foundation on which her signature classic and feminine interiors and product designs are built. Wilson and her team…
Read MoreDallas artist LaToya Jones’ gleaming interpretation of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring caught the attention of curators at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Netherlands, which has chosen it for a wildly creative group show honoring Vermeer’s 1…
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