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.
Here was a chance to revisit the Impressionist paintings from the Margaret McDermott collection and others in this wonderful exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art in the Dallas Arts District downtown.
The Texas State Fair is a tradition, but is even more than that. The vibration of Dallas changes as the city anticipates the Fair and all that it connotes. Even if someone does not attend the Fair, they recall years of going to the Fair, the livestock shows, the ferris wheels, the fried foods, corny dogs, caramel apples, the Midway, the Grambling Band, the Texas-OU game, and the western costume of towering Big Tex.
Lynn McBee, the Executive Director of the Dallas Breakfast Group, moderates a panel that includes former Mayor Tom Leppert and Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert. The Interim City Manager has dedicated herself to Dallas for 30 years. Here she is explaining that the just passed ForwardDallas Comprehensive Plan recommending that single-family homes be replaced with apartments will not hurt Dallas. Further, she mentions the city has not discussed what percentage of Dallas should be homeowners and renters, even though the city’s percentage of homeowners is going down and there is a call for the percentage of renters to increase.
Dallas has a wonderful Arts and Letters program where we have the opportunity to hear from authors reading from their books. Interabang gives us a special treat – an almost private session with an author discussing his book. This evening the brilliant Dallas Morning News editor Rudy Bush discussed with author Jim Schutze his new book, “Pontiac.” This is a book of fiction that is based heavily on Jim’s experience from growing up in the provinces and then being shipped to an elite prep school.
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.
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.
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.