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TEXAS DESIGN WEEK DALLAS IS A TICKETED EVENT. TO PURCHASE TICKETS, AND FOR COMPLETE SCHEDULE, GO TO TEXASDESIGNWEEK.COM. "We have designed our practice and, in turn, our studio space to promote cross-pollination and discussion between all teams: Architecture, Landscape and Interiors." — Brian Sawyer Complementary Pursuits: Brian Sawyer and John Berson, Sawyer | Berson T reating architecture, landscape design, and interior design as complementary e n d e avo rs , B r i a n Sawyer and John Berson — co-founders of New York-based Sawyer | Berson — are, respectively, landscape designer and architect with an in-house design department. The duo presents their debut book, Sawyer | Berson: Houses and Landscapes (Rizzoli), where they showcase projects that seamlessly meld modernism and classicism including a modernist Hampton house of stone and glass, a cedar-shingled house in Colonial Revival style, and a four-suite home built according to the pinwheel floorplans of early 20th-century houses by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. The two met in the early 1990s when working together at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and present clients include record producer Mark Ronson, Julianne Moore, Bette Midler, Vera Wang, and Elle McPherson. What, When, Where: Illustrated talk, book signing, and afternoon wine with Brian Sawyer and John Berson Thursday, November 2, 1 to 3 pm, at Blue Print, 1505 Oak Lawn Ave., Suite 100. For tickets go to texasdesignweek.com. Outdoor living areas bordered by restored wetland along the western edge of Sagg Pond. A Southampton, NY family room and dining room, below, for the owner of Dune furniture. JOSHUA MCHUGH