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If y ou're searching for Madison's new Dallas Design District location, just look for the crystal Sputnik chandelier in the window, say Kirsten Fitzgibbons and Kelli Ford, interior designers and sisters who co- founded the beloved home decor gift shop more than 20 years ago in Highland Park Village. The chandelier — purchased long ago at a Paris flea market — has become a signature design element at Madison. The new 8,000-square-foot Madison showroom may be in the design district but it's open to the public, with much more room to showcase a global inventory of art, antiques, upholstery, case goods, rugs, mirrors, candles, designer consignments, and accessories, as well as longtime Madison favorites such as Buccellati silver objects, Simon Pearce glassware, William Yeoward crystal, and D. Porthault sheets, along with new additions including Sferra linens. With a nearby warehouse full of back stock, almost everything can purchased off the floor, they say. "We've also brought in more vintage and antique silver that we get from Europe and the U.S., but we've kept Madison very recognizable to people who've shopped with us over the years," Ford says. Madison's workrooms for monogramming, embossing, and made-to-order furniture- making are next door, allowing for endless customizations; offices for their interior design company, Kirsten Kelli, are located in the back of the showroom. "There are wonderful restaurants in the design district and it's a fun, exciting place to go," Fitzgibbons says. "And you can find a parking spot — something you couldn't always do in Highland Park Village." Madison, Dallas Design District, 114 Express St., madison214.com. Rebecca Sherman Stylish Move E n g l i s h p o r t r a i t a r t i s t Charlotte Johnstone has a deep understanding of how textiles can help tell a subject's story. The pattern of a chair's upholstery and the drape of a garment can be as revealing as the sitter's face and hands, she says. Johnstone's new collaboration with Soane Britain merges her fascination with fabrics and the natural world with two designs on linen depicting flowers and insects, inspired by Southeast Asian fabrics in Soane's textile archive. Her original pencil and watercolor sketches have been carefully reproduced by Soane's printers in Britain and retain a painterly feel. Patanga is a vivid pattern that evokes tropical forests with rambling flowers and exotic moths, and Mawar's scroll of flowers references 17th- century Chinese wallpapers. Johnstone trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and cultivated a love of nature as artist in residence for the Royal Geographical Society's Shoals of Capricorn Expedition, a science research and education program on the islands of Mauritius and Seychelles. Her interest in textiles blossomed during a decade spent living in India, but her destiny as an artist seems predetermined. Her grandmother, Doris Zinkeisen, was a stage designer and celebrated society portraitist whose work hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery. In 1934, Doris and her sister, Anna Zinkeisen — also a noteworthy artist — painted a 1,000-foot mural for the RMS Queen Mary, which coincidentally was furnished with the Angraves rattan designs now held in the Soane archive. Charlotte Johnstone for Soane Britain, at Soane Britain, 22 E. 65th St., New York, soane.co.uk. Rebecca Sherman Self Portrait, in Bloom The new Madison showroom in Dallas Design District HECTOR M SANCHEZ Mawar wallpaper in Gold Charlotte Johnstone for Soane Britain wallpaper Mawar wallpaper Ivory on Hart Green 92