Stephanie Kratz Interiors
When you’re building or renovating a home with a partner, compromise is the key to ensuring one person doesn’t end up feeling like they live in someone else’s house. While it’s a challenge to combine two styles into a unique third, for interior designers, the magic is in creating a new style that can stand […]
Silver Linings
When Bruce Bernbaum’s north Dallas mid-century modern home was demolished by a tornado in 2019, he and his wife, Cindy, chose to see it as an opportunity to build an even better version of the house they loved. As a principal architect and co-founder of the Bernbaum/Magadini firm, Bernbaum is known for contemporary homes with […]
NATURAL SPECIMENS AS VALUABLE ART
Alongside modified perceptions of the global market, high-end minerals, corals and fossils have experienced a significant increase in value and desirability over the past few decades and are no longer regarded as simple decorative accessories. Now viewed more as pieces of art, priceless collectibles and unique investments, the finest of these natural specimens are coveted […]
PITTET ARCHITECTURALS
Looking to bring a bit of old-world European charm to your next design project? Fancy a limestone mantel for your fireplace, a set of signed bronze door handles to welcome your guests or a pair of gold-plated gothic candlesticks to illuminate your dining room? No need to locate your passport, jump on a plane and travel […]
FROM DATED TO DRAMATIC
Terri Becker is not a novice to interior design, but she was blown away when readers voted her 2021’s best interior design firm in Dallas Morning News’ annual competition only three years after striking out on her own at Terri Becker Designs. It’s not the only award she has earned in her three years flying solo. […]
THE COLOR KING
Way back in sixth grade, Phillip Muldrow got to choose two elective classes for his middle school years. He chose shop and art. “Art class was where I got my peace,” artist Phillip Muldrow of Jimmy Rich Art Collection says. His teacher saw a natural penchant for creativity in his work and gave him a set […]
OUT OF TRAGEDY, TRIUMPH
How can an intense tornado, spinning and forcing its way through several streets full of homes, be an inspiration? That’s what visual artist Tom Hoitsma wondered when his Dallas neighborhood was devastated by a tornado in the fall of 2019. “With winds up to 140 miles per hour and at three-quarters of a mile wide, this […]
RENAISSANCE RESTORATION
In the 1939 movie on borrowed time, young Pud and his grandfather have a conversation about death and Pud asks his grandfather, “Where do they go?” And his grandfather replies, “Where the woodbine twineth, sonny.” For Michael Smith, it’s an apt name for his family’s antiques and fine furniture showroom, Woodbine Interiors. It’s an oasis of mid-century modern creations, teak […]
THE MAGIC OF
Sometimes the best-laid plans go awry, and it is in the new direction that someone finds her true life’s work. Call it divine intervention, fate or destiny. The evolution of Susan Foley’s art followed such a trajectory. As a young dancer who was forced to stop her craft due to an injury, she later turned […]
CONVERSATION ON CANVAS
For artist Kelly Gowan, painting is an all-encompassing love affair. If you go through her email, you will find reminder messages to herself with more than 100 ideas, processes and pieces of inspiration she doesn’t want to forget. It could be raindrops settling over the dogwoods, mist rolling over the lake by her home or […]
