Top row from left: PRC Dinner 2023, Richard Drummond Davis, Cliff Welch, FAIA. Second row from left: Michael Lee, Design Genius, Jack Knox Creates Cafe Pacific Magic, Mother’s Day Home Tour.
Life in Dallas is intended to provide casual snapshots and vignettes of people and places one might see in the course of living in Dallas. These spontaneous and sporadic posts are not intended to give an exhaustive or even a full view of Dallas. Here you will find hints of Dallas.
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House has become a strong tradition in Dallas as interior designers create the design for a specific room. The Dallas Design Week preceding Kips Bay has many lectures, book signings, receptions and showrooms in the Design District.
Interior designer Jan Showers created this show-stopping room at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas 2024. Jan Showers was responsible for us enjoying this fabulous room and she was also one of the organizers of this Kips Bay Decorator Show House that was held in the Turtle Creek area of Dallas.
Design of room by interior designer Lisa Henderson at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas 2024.Interior designer Trish Sheats created this room at the the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas 2024.
Room presented by interior designer Trish Sheats at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas 2024 in Dallas’ Turtle Creek neighborhood.Champagne Designs created this room at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas 2024.Interior designer Henry Street designed this room at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas 2024.
I was delighted to learn Sarah Crain was hired as the Executive Director of Preservation Dallas. Her father John Crain was one of the first persons I met when I moved to Munger Place, as he was the young Executive Director of the Dallas Historical Society and now is the Chairman of the Board of the Summerlee Foundation and also serves on the Texas Historical Commission. It was fun talking with Sarah Crain at the reception at the Wilson House on Swiss Avenue announcing her new position. She mentioned that she grew up in the basement of the Hall of State where the offices of the Dallas Historical Society were located. What a great family legacy of preserving and promoting Dallas.
Kevin and Cheryl Vogel have nurtured Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden that Kevin’s father Donald Vogel created 70 years ago. The art that is offered for sale at this gallery draws from the last seven decades and exhibits leading current artists. The gallery is beloved for both its art, its gallerist, and the beautiful gardens that are kept open to the public. It is a fabulous expression of Dallas aesthetics and generosity.
Botanical path at Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden leads to a series of beautiful gardens as the Gallery celebrates its 70th Anniversary.
Dallas enjoyed celebrating the 70th anniversary of Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden by visiting the beautiful gardens located at 6616 Spring Valley Road in Dallas and viewing the botanical exhibition celebrating the anniversary.Patrons of the arts and the general public of Dallas have always enjoyed the beautiful gardens of the Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden which celebrated its 70th Anniversary with the Botanicals Exhibition in the fall of 2024.Painting by Marjorie Johnson Lee, 1964, is seen at 70th Anniversary Botanicals Exhibition.Painting by renowned artist Barnaby Fitzgerald.Images of nature by Lloyd Brown.A painting of blue irises by artist Bob Stuth-Wade at the Botanicals Exhibition.Painting by artist Julie England exhibited at the Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden Botanicals Exhibition.Painting by beloved Dallas artist Mary Vernon shown at Botanicals Exhibition of Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden celebrating their 70th Anniversary.
Dallas Architecture Forum Panel of leading Dallas contractors was held at the Nasher Sculpture Center, which included Steve Hild, Stephen Hardy, and John Sebastian known primarily for their modern homes.
Going by the Nasher exhibition of Hugh Hayden on the first floor is a perfect introduction for the Dallas Architecture Forum Panel of leading Dallas contractors being held on the floor below.
Dallas Architecture Forum Panel of leading Dallas contractors is held at the Nasher Sculpture Center, which included Steve Hild, Stephen Hardy, and John Sebastian known primarily for their modern homes.Architect Renzo Piano designed the Nasher Sculpture Center as the perfect environment for an architectural panel discussing the construction of modern homes in Dallas.Contractor John Sebastian in conversation after a panel discussion on building architect-designed homes in Dallas. John Sebastian is an architect who took over the architecture and building firm of his father in 1992 and turned it into one of the largest and most important residential building firms in Texas and across the country. The modern homes he has built are incredibly complex and beautiful. These are houses that put Dallas on the architectural map!Contractor Steve Hild speaking at the Dallas Architecture Forum Panel about the Alter Studio designed home in Highland Park.David Hocker has won national landscape architecture awards. He does a spectacular job of enhancing architecturally significant homes with his landscape design. He is sought out to work from the beginning of the three-year process of designing, building and landscaping a home. One can recognize his work from its excellence.Steve Levine is waving goodbye to his friends at the Dallas Architecture Forum as he departs the reception after the panel of Dallas contractors spoke. Steve is probably the most knowledgeable person in Dallas regarding residential architecture and modern architect-designed homes.
Air-cooled 911 Porsches line up outside of the Merit Coffee Mockingbird location in East Dallas.Architects Jim Looney and Porter Fuqua join some other air-cooled Porsche 911 owners for coffee at the Mockingbird location of Merit Coffee. These architects have a great eye for design. When Porter is not sailing he is hot-rodding and drinking coffee.
Megan and Bryan Fears were the hit of the party at the Brown Jordan design studio in the Design District launching the fall issue of D Home. Their home was on the cover and included in a fabulous article describing their approach to renovating this architecturally significant home by architect Howard Meyer.
Megan Fears captured with oversized cover image of her home in background.The publisher of D Home, Gillea Allison, made cogent remarks about an issue that included the Fears home at White Rock Lake, features on several architects, and the ten most charming houses.Megan and noted designers attending the party.Douglas Newby photographed with two of his favorite clients and friends, Bryan and Megan Fears, at the D Home party held in the studio of Brown Jordan in the Design District.
Wilson Fuqua is best known for the renovation and preservation design he has done on many of the most important historic and architecturally significant homes in Highland Park. He has also designed over 25 new homes in the finest neighborhoods of Dallas. It is always a treat to visit with Wilson about Dallas, Highland Park, architecture or life in general. He is a great asset to Dallas, and today it was fun to see him work, creating space within the four walls of the original structure that I did not think was possible.
The entrance room and corridor of Fuqua Architects has samples of moldings and trim and materials successfully used on restoration of historic homes and design of new homes primarily in Highland Park, University Park, Preston Hollow, Greenway Parks, and Bluffview.Architect Wilson Fuqua in his office sketching and reviewing examples of projects for a client I was working with.
Garland Road, beyond the Arboretum, for years was only known for having Richardson Bike Mart and Barbec’s across the street. In the last few years, there has been a proliferation of fashionable bars, restaurants and coffee shops. Ascension Coffee at 9353 Garland Road is another addition to the neighborhood that provides great coffee and delectable food. The high vaulted wood and steel ceilings and long open space give a hint of the original chapel that inhabited the space.
Ascension Coffee near White Rock Lake is in a space reminiscent of an early church.
In a building that looks like it once was a one-room vaulted ceiling chapel is a fabulous coffee shop with inspired food!Ascension Coffee near White Rock Lake has a vibrant atmosphere.
