Douglas Newby Insights - Page 16
Entrance to Dallas
Visitors arriving in Dallas for the first time were visually greeted by a deteriorated building ravaged by time and destruction—at the entrance to downtown Dallas. This might be a common sight in struggling older cities, but not expected in the gleaming city of Dallas. On the visitors’ next trip, instead of seeing this, the leaning tower that would not fall, they will see a shining new $7 billion development—a more fitting look for Dallas. *Entrance to Dallas
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Niche Neighborhood
My favorite neighborhoods are niche neighborhoods. My real estate business started exclusively in niche neighborhoods and much of my business continues in niche neighborhoods, most of them having fewer than 100 houses, from Turtle Creek Park to Mayflower Estates. These neighborhoods all have expensive homes but, more important, they are filled with homes of charm, character and architectural significance nestled into nature. I recently posted a video of Northern Hills on my Architecturally Significant Homes YouTube channel that discusses the reasons Northern Hills is a favorite neighborhood. *Niche Neighborhood
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Feline Perspective
This is the only art video exhibition that I have seen of changing video sequences that feel more like daily life than a video art installation. The neon tube structure is so captivating that one almost accepts the changing video vignette as everyday life in a neon house. A lounging cat does suggest what many already suspect—that humans are subordinate to their pets. It is certainly cats that claim homes on their own terms. *Feline Perspective
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DMA Collection
There are many people responsible for acquiring an art museum’s collection and making an exhibition of some of that collection come to life. Dallas has many great art patrons. Dallas Museum of Art also has a fabulous director and innovative curators, along with a collection committee that acquires local, national and international work. Here, one enters this chapel sculpture, and I, by chance, had the opportunity to meet the artist and see the chair of the Art Acquisition Committee of the DMA admiring this work. It was fitting that I was in this sculpture of a chapel as I occasionally pray that the artwork buried somewhere in the Dallas Art Museum is unearthed and displayed. It was fun to see how excited Gayle was to see this piece of art in person that she had only previously seen in slides. What better way to view the graphically illustrated interior of this structure than with the artist and chair of the Art Acquisition Committee. *DMA Collection
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Narrow Perspective
Many acclaimed houses project a rather narrow perspective. They emphasize the architecture, design, art, engineering, technology, the latest materials and many windows. This piece of art captures all of that successfully, visually drawing me to it. However, the rugged modest representations of dwellings and space still have a more lingering effect and lasting impression on my imagination. *Narrow Perspective
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Primitive Look at Houses
An artist pictures the life of a home that does not show up on an architect’s drawing board. This painting quickly caught my attention as one of my favorite clients who is from New Orleans has a painting by this female artist in her home. When I first saw it in her home I did not know the name of the artist. It was not prominently displayed over the fireplace, but it had museum quality about it. Sure enough, this artist was collected by the Dallas Museum of Art and displayed in this art exhibition about houses. The foremost quality of a home is that it should make people happy. The artist captures the happiness this home generates. *Primitive Look at Houses
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House of Illumination
Lighting is so critical for a home. In a forest or on a lake, a home might be illuminated by moonlight. In Highland Park, lighting designer John Watson invented moon lighting in trees that became a signature look of Dallas. Clear white light inside a home pleases homebuyers. Art lighting focuses attention on spaces or objects that are desirable attributes of a home. Windows create a desire to look inside a home, and once inside look out. What is better than multilight windows providing a glimpse of cupid inside that suggests pleasant residential dreams. In this art installation of a house, lighting is not serving as an amendment to the house, but it is the house. *House of Illumination
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#DMA @DallasMuseumArt #Design #ContemporaryHome #ModernHomeCity #JoySpotting
Residential Angle
One of the great things about bringing work out of the DMA archives is that we have a chance to see great art that has been hidden. We also have the opportunity to see works of art we know and be reminded of the art collectors who donated the work to the Dallas Museum of Art. In Dallas, Roger Winter is a much-admired artist. I have always loved his work and even more his artist friendship with David McManaway, a longtime friend, neighbor and an artist I revere. Artists have a way of integrating art into their lives and incorporating their studios into their homes, or in some cases their home into their studios. I saw this early on from the home and studio of James Surls and many important Tremont artists who did much of their early work in Munger Place. Deep Ellum is a neighborhood with which I was very involved in the rezoning, preservation and early revitalization. I would visit the original 1800s formal living quarters over an original office or retail shop. This painting by Roger Winter, for me, is both nostalgic and hopeful. On the corner of the mixed-use neighborhood, you see the neoclassical columns that lead to a second-story residence over the Oasis restaurant. Streets are not closed off, forcing people to inhabit Disneyland-like plazas. Cars are still allowed on streets and pedestrians are still shown on the sidewalks with park benches nearby. The neighborhood looks like it might have had a better past and that it might have a better future, but it conveys opportunity and affordability and a pleasant scale that is lost with government subsidized five-story apartment buildings. *Residential Angle
#RogerWinter #MixedUseNeighborhood #ResidenceOverShop #Dallas @DallasMuseumArt #DMA #Painting #ArtOpening #Neighborhood #Residence #Home #art #artexhibition
Home Sweet Home
When I see affordable housing in the form of government projects, I recoil at how grim they are or will become. Whenever I see a modest single-family home in person, or a shotgun house, or simple houses depicted in art, I feel so happy that a low-income person can claim a home as their own. In the last few generations there are many prominent Dallas residents who spent their youth in sod houses such as architect David Williams, or Dogtrot frame houses, or small cottages, or even childhood homes like that of our former great city manager, John Ware, who was raised in a home with polished dirt floors. Aesthetically, I find this home poetic and beautiful—its materials, context, simplicity and what it represents. *Home Sweet Home
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Lovers of Houses
Here is a house that I think @IngridFetell would love—a house that provokes dreams of joy. Here architecture and art from a distance transform, and as one gets closer, into a sense of play, an underrated aspect of any home. Flower boxes and cupid—what better way to bring in spring. *Lovers of Houses
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