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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. S ometimes being obsessive has its benefits. Alison and Jay Carroll f o u n d e d W o n d e r Valley to focus on one of the earth's most beautiful gifts: the olive. Their olive oils, incense, soaps and unisex face and body oils all tap into t h e m a g i c a l properties of the diminutive fruit. "I became obsessed with t h e h o l i s t i c b e n e f i t s o f olive oil, the o l d - w o r l d romance, and endless uses, and created a skincare line with it," Alison says. "We believe it to be the fountain of youth and to serve your health, when consumed and applied topically." In addition to Wonder Valley, the Carrolls are partners in the boutique hotel El Rey Court in Santa Fe. Wonder Valley olive oil at The Heights Grocer, full line at Lemon Laine, welcometowondervalley.com. Steven Hempel HEALTHY OBSESSION Alison and Jay Carroll A s sheltering in place went from days to weeks to months, we missed visiting our local museums for inspiration, or just to lose ourselves in the canvases of Rothko or Rembrandt. Many institutions had opened stellar exhibitions shortly before those directives were made. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth had unveiled "Flesh and Blood: Italian Masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum" while its neighbor, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, had welcomed Mark Bradford and a show of his work focusing on end papers, which he learned to use during his days as a hairdresser in his mother's salon in South Los Angeles. Organizations began to pivot to stay engaged with their audiences who were now at home. Taking a cue from the restaurant industries' robust to- go services, PaperCity assisted our cultural friends by providing our online and social media platforms to launch the Museums Delivered series. Curators whipped out smartphones and shared insights into paintings from recently opened exhibitions, as well as favorite works from the permanent collections. In Houston, Alison Weaver at Rice University's Moody Center for the Arts walked us through "Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present," and Ryan Dennis of Project Row Houses pulled back the curtain on works by Houston talents in "Local Impact II," focusing on the creator of our May cover, Jasmine Zelaya. Upcoming: The Menil Collection, the Meadows Museum at SMU, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Dallas Contemporary, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. View videos at papercitymag.com. Billy Fong MUSEUMS-TO-GO CHRISTIAN LACROIX MAISON X ROCHE BOBOIS C hristian Lacroix Maison's new Bois Paradis collection with Roche Bobois captures a moody woodland paradise in lavish materials and patterns. Animals, vines, and ferns form a dense panorama for this latest capsule collection, which includes wallpaper, upholstered seating, and occasional and coffee tables and cabinets in natural oak, lacquer, and metal. Bois Paradis, created by Sacha Walckhoff, creative director of Christian Lacroix Maison, is the third collection to emerge from the collaboration between the two French design houses. Christian Lacroix Maison for Roche Bobois, from $1,225, at Roche Bobois, 4810 San Felipe St., roche-bobois.com. Rebecca Sherman COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PRH, PHOTO ALEX BARBER Jasmine Zelaya's Sugar Water, 2020, at Project Row Houses Christian Lacroix Maison's Bois Paradis collection with Roche Bobois