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LOVING Hansel & Gretel Four Corners But NEVER SQUARE We have a woodlands thing going on here with Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams' Too Sexy Sadie Bird fabric married to an iconic MG+BW chair ($940) and high-gloss Lincoln Pull-Up Tables made from the Trembesi tree with a hand-waxed top to show the natural rings of the wood (16.5 inches high and 13.5 inches wide, in onyx, sterling and sugar; $370). At Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. Holly Moore After years spent at the visual helm of such prominent retailers as I. Magnin, Saks Fifth Avenue and Barneys New York, designer Brenda Houston was hip to what was missing: sophisticated objets centered around natural materials. Her handmade bronze boxes, washed in platinum or gold and topped with sliced agate, fill the gap beautifully. $2,000 to $3,000, at Laura Lee Clark Interior Design. Amy Adams JENNY ANTILL Queen Anne has nothing on these Annette Ferdinandsen chrysophase balland-claw coral drop earrings. $695, at Ylang 23. Neon BRIGHTS Springbok pillows in colors more Vegas Strip than African savanna. $265, at Nest. Amy Adams JENNY ANTILL Bernadette Schaeffler OUR CUP GERMAN Precision When Bernadette Schaeffler moved to the United States from Cologne, Germany, one of the first things she had to adjust was her sense of proportion. "We don't have family rooms in Europe," she confides. "Dimensions are much different." Fast forward 20 years, and this striking blonde now brings her continental sensibility — albeit modified for Texas-size spaces — to the Design District via her new 4,000-square-foot showroom, aptly named Bernadette Schaeffler Collection. Expect plenty of color, antiques sourced from throughout the world and artfully aged metal furniture, along with a Parisian-inspired flower shop where Schaeffler herself designs arrangements. (You'll recognize her by the trademark red lipstick.) 1616 Hi Line Dr., Suite 100, 214.749.0816; bernadetteschaeffler.com. Amy Adams of Tea English gent Timothy Oulton has opened his first freestanding store in the States in Dallas — a grand 10,000-square-foot repurposed building off Henderson Avenue filled with antique-inspired goods that could be at home in a London gentleman's club, an Oxford don's study or Keith Richards' man cave. Oulton, who is known for producing furnishings with a link to the past, painstakingly handcrafts each piece using time-honored techniques so that no two are alike. He has locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Hamburg, Singapore, Barbados and a soon-to-beopened establishment in Amsterdam, plus shop-in-shops at H.D. Buttercup in both Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as New York's ABC Carpet & Home. So we were thrilled when this master of reinvention opened a freestanding outpost in … shall we just say, the provinces. He explains, "We chose Dallas because we thought it was a great fit for us. The city's energy and larger-than-life approach to living are values at the heart of our brand." We love his dining tables fashioned from reclaimed sassafras wood last seen on decommissioned Chinese junks; the luggage and travel goods (each taking a minimum of 72 hours to complete) rendered in leather with solid-brass hinges and locks, and the solidly squared trunk of aged aluminum and rivets inspired by the Spitfire jet. (Some trunks and cases have relinquished their passports and been reincarnated as tables, storage, chests and even desks.) Oulton is the furniture world's equivalent of a rock star, which makes the yellow submarine floating inside a giant aquarium quite apropos. Vintage finds round out the stock, while the London Café serves up tea and sweets, and blooms to go from Stems of Dallas add spots of color. 4500 N. Central Expressway in Potter Square, 214.613.2464; timothyoulton.com. Give 'Em THE SLIP Are certain additions to your household a little, well, exposed? Austin-based Square Feathers advocates modesty via a collection of adorably slipcovered wastebaskets (and lampshades). $67 and $157, respectively, at IBB Design Fine Furnishings, Stephanie Anne, Stella Dallas. Amy Adams