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Dallas’ Urbanology Designs Transforms A Greenway Parks House Into A Playful English Whiskey Lounge

Emily potts — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:01:03 +0000

“Make me the perfect English whiskey lounge, but for kids.” That’s a bold charge for a designer to receive from a client, but one that Ginger Curtis, founder and CEO of Dallas’ Urbanology Designs, was successfully able to execute for her returnin...

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The 25 Designers Chosen For the 2024 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas

PaperCity Staff Report — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:19:25 +0000

Fall is a busy social season in Dallas — but for design lovers, it marks the official start of Kips Bay Decorator Show House season. And now that 25 creatives have been chosen to transform the sprawling local estate, design fever can begin. The fifth a...

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Restaurant King Turns to Design Queen to Create Houston’s Most Beautiful New Restaurants — Ben Beg & Gail McCleese Teamup

Shelby Hodge — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:23:56 +0000

From the moment doors opened on Annabelle Brasserie in Autry Park, diners were swooning over the elaborate flourish of florals overhead, the high ceiling dressed in brightly colored swaths of silk flowers and pops of greenery. It was restaurateur Ben B...

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Thom Browne’s Subversive New Line of Luxury Home Goods

Billy Fong — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 21:22:59 +0000

The fashion Olympics recently occurred — and by that, we mean the cavalcade of gowns and tuxedos (generally avant-garde and on theme) that ascended the steps of the magnificent Gothic Revival building on Fifth Avenue for The Met Gala. Each year, the co...

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Houston Design Duo Tapped to Create a $50 Million Beverly Hills Penthouse Setting For One Spectacular Party Night

Shelby Hodge — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 02:04:05 +0000

When the team of famed French fashion house Balmain began planning a swank private client showing of the Spring-Summer 2024 collection in Beverly Hills, the $50 million penthouse at the Mandarin Oriental Residences was chosen as the venue and Houston-b...

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The Woodlands Country Club Gets a Makeover Refresh — This Woodlands Style House Renovation Is For The Ladies

Laura Landsbaum — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:11:46 +0000

A small renovation and a complete makeover have turned the ladies lounge and locker rooms at the Palmer Course at The Woodlands Country Club into bright, welcoming spaces. Woodlands Style House’s Sondra Lagasse spearheaded the refresh, which was ...

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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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New Latin Restaurant In The Woodlands Brings a Unique Tropical Patio Vibe — Inside Costa Fina’s Dramatic Design

Laura Landsbaum — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 01:10:31 +0000

A facelift is what Enrique Orioli thought his newest restaurant Costa Fina Latin Coastal Cuisine, which took over the space of a former Tex-Mex restaurant in The Woodlands’ Creekside Park neighborhood, needed. The design firm behind Orioli’...

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Houston’s Hottest New Hotel Draws Design Masters — Thompson Houston Proves to be the Perfect Setting for a 25 Year Celebration

Shelby Hodge — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 02:05:41 +0000

Getting their first look at the dramatic pool deck of the brand new Thompson Houston Hotel where their outdoor furnishings claimed the design motif, Paola Lenti CEO Anna Lenti and designer Francesco Rota were intrigued. Jetting in from home base in Ita...

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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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Inside a Carlton Woods Designer Dream House — This Woodlands Mansion Is a Sprawling Stunner With a Bar to Swoon Over

Laura Landsbaum — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:03:53 +0000

For Sarah Bartholet Gwin, a third-generation interior designer and color enthusiast, design is more than just a profession. It’s her lifelong passion. From the very beginning, Gwin’s journey into the world of design was inevitable. Growing ...

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The Best Gifts For Hosts Who Love to Entertain — Holiday Presents That Bring Joy

Shelby Hodge — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:24:29 +0000

Anyone who knows me well or follows me on Instagram is aware that I love to entertain at home and dress my table as imaginatively as possible whether it’s an intimate caviar and vodka dinner for my husband and me or a Mardi Gras feast for a crowd...

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Inside the Woodlands Style House World — All-Women Home Design Firm Knows It’s About More Than Just Trends

Laura Landsbaum — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:56:38 +0000

Woodlands Style House, the brainchild of Sondra Lagasse and Jill Simms, is a natural evolution for two very talented women. Both have a knack for design and marketing. But with young kids in school, they didn’t want to put their families on the b...

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TXDW Dallas — Sara Story Talks Layering, Collections and Pedigreed Furniture

Rebecca Sherman — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 23:08:06 +0000

Designer Sara Story’s remarkable Manhattan townhouse renovation propelled her onto the design world’s radar when it appeared in the June issue of Architectural Digest. The five-story 1840s Gramercy Park brownstone was assembled from nine apartments ove...

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Dollhouse Tour To Make Houston’s Home Scene All About Stunning Miniatures — These Tiny Houses Are Full of Surprises

Caitlin Hsu — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 21:39:43 +0000

Tiny houses, great causes. Eight businesses around the greater Houston area will be graced with their own beautiful one-of-a-kind dollhouse display through the La Petite Maison 2023 Dollhouse Tour this month. Each dollhouse was created by a different d...

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Fort Worth Influencer Tapped by Ceramics Force MacKenzie-Childs to Design Dreamy New Collection — Katey McFarlan Jumps Right In

Courtney Dabney — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:01:48 +0000

If you’re into home decor and ceramics, you may already be a fan of MacKenzie-Childs’ bold designs. Based in Aurora, New York, the company has been designing and manufacturing hand-decorated ceramic and enamel tableware, furniture and home and ga...

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Design Charmer Jenn Todryk Brings More Dallas-Fort Worth Homes Into the HGTV Spotlight — How No Demo Reno Is Changing

Courtney Dabney — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:26:16 +0000

Dallas-based designer Jenn Todryk is returning for her third season of No Demo Reno on HGTV with more Dallas and Fort Worth area homes. No Demo Reno‘s new season will premiere this Thursday, September 14 at 8 pm CST, with the first of 12 episodes...

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Houston’s Original Carrabba’s On Kirby Restaurant Gets a Swoon Worthy Makeover From Chic Designer Courtney Hill Fertitta

Shelby Hodge — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:11:15 +0000

Johnny Carrabba III readily admits that he is seldom at a loss for words. But on the reveal of the makeover of two private rooms at his original Carrabba’s on Kirby, the gregarious Houston restaurateur was not only dumbstruck but he was also in t...

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Martyn Lawrence Bullard Brings High Style to Pool Lounging and Writes a New Book About His Celebrity Design Projects

Courtney Dabney — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:05:49 +0000

Oliver Micklewright has fond memories of lazy summer days, watching his parents float on their inflated “lilo” lounger. What Americans call a float, or even a raft, the British call a lilo (pronounced lee-low). Micklewright set out to design one that c...

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Houston’s Instagram Antiques Queen — How Lily Barfield Turned Her Passion For Treasure Hunting Into an Unlikely Influencer Career

Shelby Hodge — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:09:58 +0000

Houstonian Lily Barfield never dreamed that her passion for antiques and antique hunting would lead her into the realm of influencers with an Instagram following of more than 26,000 and growing. It was an unexpected trajectory. As a newlywed, she was f...

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