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DESIGN DAZE: THE HOUSTON DESIGN CENTER SPRING MARKET

I’m just back from a snowy long weekend in Hyde Park in upstate New York visiting dear friends Michael Dupree and Michael Fleischer, and I can’t get the Dionne Warwick theme song for

Valley of the Dolls out of my head. The magical lane leading to their home looks just like the one Barbara Parkins (Anne Welles) walked along in Lawrenceville in her Revillon princess-cut fur coat, stick in hand. Gotta get off, gonna get, have to get off from this ride. And, yes, we also watched the movie late one night. Back in Houston, we are putting the March issue to bed as I write, and the balmy weather expected this weekend has me perusing tillers to at last begin cultivating a 20-by-40-foot garden at my farm, now named Pond Hollow. Michael Dupree in Hyde Park is a master gardener with a degree from Cornell, and I know what beauty lurks beneath his snow banks. So any scraps of knowledge he strews, I jot down immediately. For online seed and plants, he recommends Van Engelen Farms and John Scheepers fl ower bulbs and kitchen garden seeds (operating since 1908). I also love Spring Hill Nursery and White Flower Farm online nursery sites. Armed with a planting

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12 Party: Children’s Museum of Houston GalaParty: Project Row Houses Gala

20 Style: Preserving history with James Glassman

10 Party: Arts of the Islamic World GalaParty: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s new building reveal

26 Party: Orange Show GalaParty: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s Martini Madness

22 Design: Sitting down with modernist master designer Vladimir Kagan

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38 Parties: HAA’s Illuminación: A Bayou Bash; ICCAA’s Thomas Woltz lecture; Aurora Picture Show Awards DinnerParty: Houston Center for Literacy’s Great Grown Up Spelling Bee

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54 Decoration: What’s new in the design whirl

House: Tanglewood home of Wayne Smith and Denny Lyons

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Dining out: Weights + Measures; El Cantina Superior

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D esigners are making their way from London and Atlanta to The Houston Design Center’s Spring Market Tuesday, April 7. Rachel Ashwell, founder of Shabby Chic, is in from London, as well as designer Barbara Westbrook from Atlanta — both with new books in tow. All will join a lively panel discussion at 11 am at Alkusari Stone Showroom

(Suite 229), followed by a book signing of the designers’ new tomes. That night, PaperCity Design Awards are presented by Ashwell and Westbrook, at a 7 pm cocktail reception at Design House showroom (Suite 115). For reservations to either event, go to thehoustondesigncenter.com or call 713.864.2660. The Houston Design Center, 7026 Old Katy Road.

C urious about how collectors live with art? Take a peek into six intriguing residences, guided by insiders Star Massing of

Boulevard Realty (she’s known as the Realtor to the art, architecture and design communities, plus she’s married to Art Guy Jack Massing) and Catherine D. Anspon, PaperCity’s executive editor, visual arts + features. The duo have crafted ArtHouse.001, a two-day, private-bus tour to exceptional and fascinating Houston collections. On tap for the River Oaks/Montrose tour on Sunday, March 29, are the PaperCity-featured homes of Leigh and Reggie Smith, Michael Landrum and Pepper Paratore, and The Cherryhurst House. The Heights itinerary on Saturday, March 28, encompasses the folk art collection of Victoria Harrison and Jay Wehnert; the studio, home and gardens of artist Dixie Friend Gay; and the historic Victorian castle of preservationist Bart Truxillo. Each afternoon wraps with a toast and meet-up at a unique, surprise venue. Tickets may be purchased for one day or the entire weekend — but book soon, because there’s limited seating on the bus. Both tours begin at 1 pm. Single day $30, both days $55, through yourblvd.com/arthouse; more information, Star Massing, 832.640.1628.

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Inspired by boots from Cairo’s Old Bazaar, the classic Desert Boot, designed by Nathan Clark 65 years ago, became the statement shoe for off-duty British army offi cers. To celebrate this iconic boot, the 190-year-old British shoemaker brand Clarks has launched an artist-initiative limited-edition Desert Boot collection, Clarks: ReBooted. Dallas’ favorite international curator, Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi (formerly of The Goss-Michael Foundation) worked with Clarks’ creative team and 14 artists and designers to create the collection. “Shoes are the one thing that always fi t me, so I could not say no to helping to design 14 versions of one of my favorite classics: Clarks’ Desert Boot.” The collection, along with one-of-a-kind works of art

Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi wearing Make Art Not War limited-edition Desert Boots by artists Bob and Roberta Smith. Below (from top), shoes by Frank Bowling; Bob and Roberta Smith; and Adam Ball, inspired by his DNA cutout series exhibited at The Goss-Michael Foundation last year.

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by each artist, will tour the world, commencing at Design Shanghai in March, Salone del Mobile in Milan in April, Frieze New York in May and CitizenM Hotel Bankside through September and October, culminating at Frieze London with a special fund-raiser auction in October. All proceeds from the auction (which will be available for online bidding) and the limited edition collection will benefi t The Halo Trust, the world’s leading humanitarian landmine-removal organization. Designers include: Adam Ball, Adam Dant, Amy Stephens, Frank Bowling, Gordon Cheung, Lee Broom, Marc Quinn, Richard Caldicott and Tom Price. But, don’t wait long: Only 250 pairs in each style are available, this month through October. $300, at the Clarks boutique, #clarksrebooted, clarksrebooted.com. Max Trowbridge

60 Art: The surreal reality of The Menil Collection

61 Design: Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin’s Menil Bungalow

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W itty, wickedly humorous and a little bit naughty. The new barware collection by Houston native Bailey McCarthy of Biscuit Home and irreverent New Orleans-based

artist Ashley Longshore is just that. “I started collecting Ashley’s work in college and wanted to get more art and original works in the store,” McCarthy says. “So the idea of a capsule collection really made sense for both of us.” The collaboration was born of their long-time friendship and mutual “badass female admiration,” adds Longshore, whose recent collabs with Anthropology and Blake Lively have catapulted her following into a different stratosphere. With this third co llaboration, she has total creative license — in other words, anything goes. The limited-edition collection (which consists of Lucite trays, a glass champagne bucket, rocks glasses and a catch-all dish) will be introduced to the public at a cocktail party at Biscuit Home Thursday, March 26, 6 to 9 pm, alongside original full-scale pieces of Longshore’s art. The collaboration, priced $75 to $300, will be available in-store and online the next day. Biscuit Home, 1435 Westheimer Road, 713.942.9797, biscuit-home.com. Francine Ballard

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app (I’m using Garden Plan Pro) and an iPad, I’m plotting what goes where, when and under what conditions. Two new books to inspire are featured in Design Notes on page 52. Bunny Williams on Garden Style is a reissue of her 1998 classic, enhanced and updated. This woman does no wrong in my book. And, Highgrove: an English Country Garden, written by the Prince of Wales and landscape architect Bunny Guinness, is an extraordinary look at one of the most celebrated organic gardens in the world — and certainly the most stunning. It’s quite remarkable to return from minus-10-degree weather and towering snow banks to Houston, garden tillers and seed sites, all in one weekend. This must be what it feels like to experience a clear-cut change of seasons — and just in time for our March issue.

Holly MooreEditor in Chiefholly@papercitymag.com

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