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HOUSTON MARCH 2015
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FASHION
FAMOUS
LE FREAK, C’EST CHIC
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TANGLEWOOD
TREASURE
WayneSmith
ART+HOME
Father of
MODERNISM
Denny
Lyons
VLADIMIR
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ÉMINENCE GRISE
The Menil Bungalow of
Wendy Watriss & Fred Baldwin
PHOTOGRAPHY SHAYNA FONTANA. ART DIRECTOR MICHELLE AVIÑA. STYLE EDITOR FRANCINE BALLARD. MODEL ADRIAN HILLIARD FOR KIM DAWSON AGENCY, DALLAS. SAINT LAURENT VELVET SMOKING JACKET
$2,990, SILK BOW WITH LEATHER $425, SHIRT $790, HAT $995, ALL AT THE SAINT LAURENT BOUTIQUE, NEIMAN MARCUS. ON RIGHT HAND: NESSA 18K AND WHITE-DIAMOND BONES HAND PIECE $8,398, AT
SHOP.NESSA-JEWELRY.COM. ON LEFT HAND: LYNN BAN BLACK-DIAMOND TRIANGULAR RING $3,500, AT NET-A-PORTER.COM. BIJULES ROSE-GOLD BAR RING WITH BLACK ONYX AND RUTILATED QUARTZ $8,034,
AT FARFETCH.COM. ASSISTANT STYLIST ELIZABETH FARRELL. INTERN STYLIST CARLY DAVIS FOR SISTERBROTHER MGMT. HAIR KIRSTEN PATTERSON. MAKEUP CARMEN WILLIAMSON. LIGHTING BRAD BAKER.
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HUNT SLONEM
British Street Style:
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-10degree 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 Moore
Editor in Chief
[email protected]
MARCH 2015 | STYLE | FASHION | SOCIAL
in
this
ISSUE
4 , 6 , 8 P O P. C U LT U R E . G O S S I P.
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12
Party: Children’s Museum of Houston Gala
Party: Project Row Houses Gala
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20 Style: Preserving history with James Glassman
Design: Sitting down with modernist master designer Vladimir Kagan
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46
PC House + Art
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Barbara
Westbrook
Party: Orange Show Gala
Party: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s Martini Madness
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Rachel
Ashwell
Party: DiverseWorks’ Art of the Runway
Style: Fashion Exhibitionists
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THE HOUSTON DESIGN
CENTER SPRING MARKET
Dining out: Weights + Measures; El Cantina Superior
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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.
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 benefit The Halo
Trust, the world’s leading
humanitarian landmineremoval 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
DESIGN DAZE:
Party: Arts of the Islamic World Gala
Party: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s new building reveal
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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 officers.
To celebrate this iconic
boot, the 190-year-old
British shoemaker brand
Clarks has launched an
artist-initiative limitededition Desert Boot
collection, Clarks:
ReBooted. Dallas’
favorite international
curator, Filippo
Tattoni-Marcozzi
(formerly of The GossMichael Foundation)
worked with Clarks’
creative team and 14
artists and designers to
create the collection.
“Shoes are the one
thing that always fit
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-ofa-kind works of art
LUC COIFFAIT
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 flower 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
REBOOTED
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Parties: HAA’s Illuminación: A Bayou Bash; ICCAA’s Thomas Woltz
lecture; Aurora Picture Show Awards Dinner
Party: Houston Center for Literacy’s Great Grown Up Spelling Bee
Fashion: Le Freak, C’est Chic
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Party: Aerin Lauder book signing at Longoria Collection
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.
Party: Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams’ 25th anniversary celebration
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Decoration: What’s new in the design whirl
House: Tanglewood home of Wayne Smith and Denny Lyons
Art: The surreal reality of The Menil Collection
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Design: Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin’s Menil Bungalow
Party: Memorial Park Conservancy’s Green Gala
Parties: Reveal of Cassina’s LC4 CP at Internum
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70
Art’s in the
Party: Spirited Holocaust Museum Luncheon
Parties: Art gazing
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Party: The Beacon’s Come to the Table blash
FANCIFUL
FEATHER
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itty,
Kate Moss Chanel Rosary Holy Fuck
Trees and Hummingbird
wickedly
Snow Globe Audrey
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 collaboration, 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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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 home of Leigh and Reggie Smith
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 PaperCityfeatured 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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