Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Leave it to the creative forces at the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts to come up with a pandemic-responsible alternative to the annual Encore luncheon. HSPVA Friends relocated the 15th annual fundraiser from the downtown campus t…
Read MoreJohn Hardy jewelry launched its “Wear Bamboo, Plant Bamboo” initiative in 2013. To date, it has seen more than 1.3 million seedlings planted in Bali where the jewelry is handmade by local master craftsman. With Earth Day coming on April 22,…
Read MoreSince its founding in New York in 1973, the highly regarded Kips Bay Decorator Show House has drawn interior design talents from across the country to create show-stopping rooms in remarkable mansions. So successful was the salute to the best of interi…
Read MoreAs early as 1925 when Glendower Court was first platted on the shoulder of River Oaks, the 141 homesites have held a certain prestige well beyond the coveted 77019 zip code. Today, it is one of Houston’s most sophisticated and charming neighborho…
Read MoreBespoke hat designer and native New Yorker Teressa Foglia swept across the Lone Star State recently making her first visit to the Round Top Antiques Show and hosting pop-ups in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Not only was she blown away by all that she enc…
Read MoreThe Garden Bungalows at La Colombe d’Or, across Yoakum from the historic hotel property of the same name, have long been part of the Zimmerman family real estate domain, not so long ago viewed perhaps as a rather dowdy Montrose apartment complex….
Read MoreThe sophisticated, contemporary glamour with which architect/interior designer Lauren Rottet imbues her projects worldwide is well known in her hometown Houston, where numerous Rottet Studio projects shine. With completion of a redo of the Four Seasons…
Read MoreI might say that you’d have to be crazy to join The Women’s Home in its latest fundraising endeavor. On the other hand, I’d have to congratulate the nonprofit for replacing its annual luncheon with a very clever pivot for bringing in …
Read MoreFriends had been bragging on aesthetician Vanessa Tort Pagel’s facials for some time but as one who prefers massages over facials (mea culpa), I would simply nod in approval. How nice. Then, I learned that Estilo Salon & Spa — which Vanessa s…
Read MoreFrom launching their modest upholstery company in rural North Carolina in 1989, Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams have expanded their eponymous purview to address a full range of home decor and furnishings including eco-friendly upholstery, tables and sto…
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