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ART + DECORATION 48 T he WM — a sultry new showroom from LeTricia Wilbanks of LeTricia Wilbanks Design and Selena Mackay of Studio Mackay — has opened on Washington at The Shops at Ladco. The powerhouse designers met at Texas Design Week Houston and bonded while crushing on each other's personal style. Soon they realized their design practices were similar in style and scale, and that they shared showroom dreams. The ideal showroom space popped up, and they open The WM, this the new extension of the Houston Design District. The pair has made several buying trips to Milan, Paris, and High Point for the showroom, which showcases modern French-style furnishings and accessories, private-label upholstery for Weiman with French textiles, fabulous new-to-Houston Portuguese collections, and Martyn Lawrence Bullard lighting for Hudson Valley Lighting Group, a first in Houston. Stunning Ornare cabinetry outfits a design library and conference/ entertainmemt room. Look for the full story in our May issue. The WM, retail and to the trade, 7800 Washington, Suite 400, the-wm.com, Anne Lee Phillips sections spanning antiquity to the early 20th century, telling the story of a rich, diverse, and powerful country whose contributions to art history are legendary. From the unexpected (droll medieval doors knockers with anthropological elements and sumptuous Roman artifacts) to the rare (a pristine 15th-century Alhambra silk, a 1728 map that includes the Province of Tejas, the 500-year-old tomb of the Duchess of Alburquerque rescued from Segovia), there's much to savor beyond the calling card of the exhibition. That would be The Duchess of Alba, 1797, by Goya; more than two centuries later, it still provokes speculation about the relationship between artist and subject. Through May 25, mfah.org. Catherine D. Anspon DESIGN BUZZ: THE WM ARRIVES T he Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, continues its epic spring, unveiling a third blockbuster weeks after opening exhibitions on Francis Bacon and Radical Italian Design. "Glory of Spain: Treasures from the Hispanic Society Museum & Library" is an international touring exhibition that touches down in Houston when the NYC Hispanic Society sends 200 objects and artworks on the road. The jewel-box show takes over the Caroline Wiess Law Building's Upper Brown Pavilion with a deep dive into four millennia of Spanish art, culled from the Old and New World. Paintings, sculpture, drawings, metalwork, textiles, and jewelry are organized into six thematic FORTY CENTURIES OF SPANISH ART: GOYA'S GAL + MORE S asha Bikoff loves pink. As Manhattan's go-to decorator for the well- heeled millennial set, the 32-year-old finds ways to use the hue in everything she touches, from her acid-trip staircase design for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House to her '60s Space Age installation with Versace at last year's Milan Furniture Fair. It's no surprise, then, that her new wallpaper and fabric collection for Vervain is drenched in pink, including a high-octane panné velvet called Lipgloss inspired by Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace. Bikoff's Favorite Things toile swims with images of Salvador Dalí's pink Lips sofa, croissants, topiaries, gold pineapples, Herend kissing swans, and Jean Paul Gaultier's Madonna corset. And an Uptown toile wallpaper takes cues from Slim Aarons and Brigitte Bardot, with poodles, bubble baths, cabanas, and cocktails. There's also a shimmering black cloth, Le Discothèque, to break up all the sweetness. Sasha Bikoff X Vervain at Fabricut, Decorative Center Houston, 5120 Woodway, Suite 3022, fabricut.com; sashabikoff.com. Rebecca Sherman SUBVERSIVE SASHA COLLECTION THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA COLLECTION THE HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA Goya's The Duchess of Alba, 1797, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sasha Bikoff José Agustín Arrieta's El Costeño (The Young Man from the Coast), circa 1843, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sasha Bikoff 's Favorite Things toile prints