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taxidermist Darwin, Sinke & van Tongeren. Root of it all. I'm a small-town Texas boy who wasn't exposed to much in the way of aesthetics, culture, or the arts, per se. I did have an innate feeling that there was more out there in world, and once I got the opportunity to see it, I became a sponge. Current projects. We work on five to ten projects at any given time. We're cur- rently working on a complete remodel of a 15,000-square-foot home that we recently gutted; an 8,000-square-foot new build in Houston Oaks; two high-rise apartments; and we recently completed a restaurant project in St. Petersburg, Florida. It's interesting that I'm working again on a project that I did for Greg Fourticq. Greg recently sold the high-rise apartment (February 2018 PaperCity) to a couple with homes in Lon- don, Hong Kong, and Taipei. It's the first time that I will be working on the same space in such a short amount of time. It will be interesting to see what mood the space evokes after reinterpreting it for them. Upcoming. We'll have a lecture and book signing with Cabana magazine founder Martina Mondadori Sartogo. Moxie will host the event with PaperCity during Texas Design Week in March. We're excited, to say the least. The magazine and her new book are so inspiring. DIY. I'm extremely hands-on … No diva here. I actually did most of the demolition work at Moxie during the construction, including driving the truck to the city dump. Page turner. I'm currently obsessed with May I Come In?: Discovering the World in Other People's Houses by Wendy Goodman. This page: Above left: View from kitchen into a showroom. Walls lacquered in cinnabar Hollandlac Brilliant from Fine Paints of Europe. Above right: Brackeen's office is shoppable, including the vintage Hart Associates iron, bronze, and wood desk and 18th-century English stool. Ceiling covered in Italian marble paper. Wallpaper by Elitis. Opposite page top: Karl Springer mirror, 1970s. Vittorio Dassi credenza in lacquered parchment. Brackeen's collection of boxes and accoutrements. Elitis wallpaper.. Opposite page bottom: Mary Lou Marks' Running Man sculpture covered in antique textiles. Iron-and-bronze door panel, 1920s. Louis Philippe French banquette in velvet. Early-20th-century celadon vase. "CURRENTLY I'M INSPIRED BY A DARKER, MOODIER PALETTE AND FULL-SPECTRUM JEWEL TONES, SUCH AS TITAN BY C2 PAINT, AND FINE PAINTS OF EUROPE'S 0029 BLACK." – Dennis Brackeen 61