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Art Notes from Kim���s house. We are now eight minutes from Kim. Mom, can we drive by Kim���s house if we get within three minutes?��� Her mom asks, ���Do you really think you���ll see her if we drive by?��� The answer: ���No, she���s in Africa.��� How do they know this stuff? Then it���s a dash to Dash on Melrose ��� Kim Kardashian���s shop. Then to the Sprinkles Cupcakes ATM machine on Rodeo. Back to Santa Monica. A wasted trip? A definite cultural wasteland, but not a wasted trip. Every trip can���t be to the MoMA or the Uffizi. Take a tip from these 15-year-olds, and make some downtime from schedules and educational pursuits, and you just might learn something. Did you know that Kim Kardashian lives at 1111 Calle Vista Drive? Holly Moore Editor in Chief holly@papercitymag.com in 8 POP. ISSUEI P. this C ULTU R E . GOS S 4, 6, MARCH 2013 | STYLE | FASHION | SOCIAL 10, 12 14 8 Billy Fong Sez ��� Party: Marvelous Menil 25th Anniversary Gala Party: Houston Symphony Opening Night Gala Party: Gem dandies at Wayne Smith Jewelry, Valobra Jewelry & Antiques, Kendra Scott Toby Kamp���s Munich, 2011, at Front Pick of the New: Fresh spots to gaze and graze 24 26 Art: Preview of the dynamic Dallas Art Fair Kelly Wearstler Style: Cubist Chic ��� the new black and white Parties: Designer Alex Papachristidis at Houston Design Center and chez the Easthams and Ann Wolf Party: Sloan/Hall f��tes Designer Social. 3033 Style: T��te-��-t��te with jeweler Steven Lagos 38 Decoration: What���s new in the design world Design: Inside the Victorian home of Devin Borden and Robert Briscoe Design: Best of the booths at Design Miami 46 49 Party: Book signing with Amanda Nisbet at Found 54 58 Dining: PaperCity sets the table with Recipe for Success. Dining: A farm-to-table f��te at Animal Farm with Uchi chefs Parties: Holiday high jinks at Trees of Hope Gala, Holiday Schmooze, Angels of Hope Luncheon, Alley Theatre Holiday Party Blooming Genius Pablo Picasso���s Woman in White, Paris, fall 1923, at MFAH Ava box clutches from Lambertson Truex at Tiffany & Co. W ith a spring Tiffany Leather Collection awash in daffodil, geranium and gardenia white, designers John Truex and Richard Lambertson seem to have doused Tiffany & Co. in Miracle-Gro. But theirs aren���t your garden-variety handbags, as evidenced by the custom-designed hardware and signature Tiffanyblue linings. ���We were inspired by flower markets in the city and the sun-drenched countryside,��� Lambertson says. ���The vivid colors reflect the tailored simplicity, crisp shirting and stripes we saw on the runways.��� The duo does the minaudi��re one better with a trio of clutches that makes us want to banish our winter satchels to the back of the closet, pronto: the foldover Babette with resin links, the glazed crocodile Sabrina and the mirror-sided Ava in pebbled or smooth leather. And for those times we need to carry more than a credit card and iPhone, there are plenty more commodious options, including the aptly named TRT (Tiffany Reversible Tote) that goes from camel to eye-popping yellow in a flash, the colorblocked Celia with exposed zipper detailing and the Devin frame bag in natural wicker sparked with silver leather trim ��� all sure to give our warm-weather wardrobes a little get up and grow. At Tiffany & Co. Amy Adams CALL FOR ENTRIES GOOD DESIGN DESERVES GREAT THINGS OPEN TO ALL DESIGN PROFESSIONALS PaperCity Design Awards, with The Houston Design Center, recognizes outstanding interior design, interior architecture, historical preservation and garden design. CATEGORIES: residential interior ��� residential interior architecture ��� garden design ��� historical preservation ��� individual rooms: bath and kitchen ��� commercial projects: office and retail: salon, spa, restaurant, club, gallery Winning entries will be recognized May 22, 2013, at a cocktail reception and will be featured in the October 2013 issue of PaperCity���s Home + Art issue. ELIGIBILITY: All Houston���area design professionals, without regard to professional society affiliation, are invited to participate. ��� Entries must be digital format with high resolution (300 dpi). Dropbox and submission instructions are on entry form. ��� Judging: A panel of out-of-area design professionals have been selected by PaperCity magazine and The Houston Design Center. ��� To enter a project, go to papercitymag.com/pcdesignawards, or thehoustondesigncenter.com; or e-mail holly@papercitymag.com for a form, or more information. Entry is $100 per project. ��� Deadline for entries is April 19, 2013. STEPHEN LEWIS 20 22 42 �� THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART; ART RESOURCE, NYC; �� 2013 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO / ARS, NYC Holly Moore COURTESY THE ARTIST AND FRONT I ���m on a plane back from Santa Monica with friends from The Fay School days ��� five families that had children in the same class from PreK through fifth. In tow on this trip we have five 15-year-olds, twin 13-yearolds, one 10-year-old and five moms. Sounds fun, right? I became entranced with the minds of 15-year-olds ��� their style, their conversational gambits and even voice intonations. Sure, words and phrases go in and out of stylish usage, but so do voice inflections. The boys (Ben, Omar, Alex and Ryder), who have only worn athletic shorts to their knees and indescribable T-shirts since they were three, are now unaccountably obsessed with Ralph Lauren. We flew to Santa Monica, checked in to the Viceroy, then spent three days taking them to Ralph Lauren stores where, in Beverly Hills on Rodeo, they bought seersucker shorts and polos. Nothing that couldn���t be had at the Galleria, five minutes from home ��� Bess, also 15, continually tracks Kim Kardashian. ���We are now nine minutes Picasso Revealed: Before there was Warhol, there was Pablo Picasso, whose talent and international celebrity defined the modern concept of an artist. It doesn���t get any better than this: A brilliantly conceived rethinking of the original grand master���s oeuvre is touching down at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Guggenheim and the MFAH are the only American venues for this consummate blockbuster, which opens eyes to an entirely new read on the painter/sculptor/ provocateur. ���Picasso Black and White��� summons nearly 100 works from the artist���s prodigious creativity, spanning 1904 to 1970, coaxed from collections near and far, including Picasso family���s special troves. Watch for his rendering of women, from classical and serene to expressionist and, of course, his stunning cubist visages. Other treasures include the unforgettable Head of a Horse, a 1937 sketch for Guernica, as well as a tapestry rendition of the battle that became a rallying cry to end the Spanish Civil War (through May 27). B&W All Over: Black-and-white is decidedly in the air. Now the tables are turned, as curator Toby Kamps puts his own art to the test, showcasing an ongoing series of photographic images drawn from the street in ���99 Cent Dreams��� at Sharon Engelstein���s bungalow turned art space Front (1412 Bonnie Brae, March 2 ��� April 6). Utterly Utterback: Works by the late Texas �� artist Robin Utterback always take your breath away. A chameleon of abstraction, this Rice grad���s estate, encompassing canvases from 1974 to 2005, is represented by ��� and on view at ��� Meredith Long & Company. Also up this month at the blue-chip gallery: The robust yet lyrical calligraphic landscapes of Rice professor Bas Poulos are highlighted in his ���Arcadia Vista��� series (opening March 7). The Year of Bianconi: The Italian sculptor, installationist and alchemical performance artist Andrea Bianconi returns to Barbara Davis Gallery in ���Love Story,��� in which he concocts an extraordinary site-specific wall drawing formed from live flowers (March 22 ��� April 20). Catch him next in Russia, as he is included in the Moscow Biennial, opening this fall. Enchanted Kingdom: Houston talent Lisa Ludwig returns to her original medium ��� ceramics ��� and casts delicate porcelain offerings loaded with dark humor evocative of Grimm���s Fairy Tales at Moody Gallery. And don���t miss her exquisite flora and fauna ��� mice in coffins, anyone? ��� which win us over with their absolute beauty (through March 23) ��� More art topics, papercitymag.com. Catherine D. Anspon