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(Continued from page 104) S een: C2 Art's founder Chandos Dodson Epley, Mary Hammon Quinn, Margaret Strode Smith, Peggy Strode, Katie Brandt, Meredith Grover; Courtney Hill Fertitta; Dawn Fertitta; Elyse and Justin Kearns; Barbara Davis; Eduardo Portillo, Christy Karll McWhorter, Nancy Bihlmaier; Cindy Witmer; Lisa Cook; Anne Lee Phillips; Charlotta Barø-Hill, Hélène Schlumberger; Magen Pastor; Charles Weiss; Krystal Finch; Monica Bickers; Paige Green; Jose Guerrero, Robin Christeson; Denise Miller, Erin Hakemack, and Susie Alcorn. Catherine D. Anspon Donald Robertson Takeaway: • "My favorite way to describe my work: Sold!" • "My advice is: Don't peak too early. Who wants to be a failed pop singer. Better to plan and practice and lay your magic on the world at 50! So, relax. Think more Iris Apfel and less Justin Bieber!" • "I want to live like a finance guy but make art for a living." • "Every artist needs a Peggy Guggenheim. When I was just starting out in my 20s in Canada, I met a guy named Leonard Lauder. He has had my back ever since. I've worked with his entire family my entire career. They taught me that hard work, global thinking, and bravery is the key to a big life!" • "Be a dog at work. Be a cat at home." • "Art experts have told me, 'Don't flood the market.' I didn't listen — I'm going for full tsunami." Park House, the Houston Reveal + Chairish Tête-à-Tête. As the finale to Texas Design Week Houston, Park House Houston threw open its posh doors for a first look at the hot new members-only social club whose coming has been the talk of the town. The SRO evening brought out a tony design, art, and high-society crowd. The club's well-appointed Salon was the mise en scène for a throng flocking to hear two visionary entrepreneurial women who have forged extraordinarily successful concepts: Park House co-founder Dallas-based Deborah Scott, and Chairish co-founder Anna Brockway, in from San Francisco. Seen: Barbara Davis, Kathy Dimmitt, Carol Isaak Barden, Christy Karll McWhorter, Tom Kligerman in from New York for his TXDW talk earlier in the day, Karen Henry, Courtnay Tartt Elias, Joyce Echols, Josephine Hill, Lauren Wills Grover, Patsy Fourticq, Greg Fourticq and John Cone, Tori Cone, Wayne Smith and Denny Lyons, Amy Johnston, Nicole Zarr, Bradley Belen, Stuart Rosenberg, Alex Killion, Ashton Taylor Oberhauser, Stacy Bain, Andrée Chalaron, Kathryn Smith, Ceron, Cleo Epley, and Blaine Mooring. Catherine D. Anspon Park House and Chairish Takeaway: • Insider intel: Deborah Scott and Anna Brockway met serendipitously decades ago, when their husbands were college roommates at Dartmouth. • Chairish is the largest marketplace in the world. • "Ninety-five percent of our business is in vintage," making Chairish's model an inspiring example of sustainability. — Anna Brockaway • Chairish is a female-run success story; 80 percent of its staff are women in its Silicon Valley HQ, a rarity in the tech world. • Chairish's newest category is jewelry, with 30,000 pieces to be online by the end of October. • Park House Houston and Chairish's collaboration provides the club's members an innovative way to acquire unique artworks beyond the traditional gallery or auction- house system. Thank you to our 2024 TXDW Houston sponsors: New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Houstonian, Noeka Home, Shabby Slips, CAM Studio, Visual Comfort, Roche Bobois, OKA, Patterson Flynn, Kravet, Culp Associates, Sanderson, James, Hästens, C2 Art, Park House, Chairish, and Echo Workshop. Karen Pulaski Oscar Banta-Guevara at Hästens Abigail Henningsen Haley Ally Ondarza at Visual Comfort Laurann Claridge Carol Isaak Barden at OKA Marie Flanigan, Mieke ten Have Sue Jones, Adam Lippes at OKA Denny Lyons, Diego Castillo Wayne Smith at Shabby Slips Sally Green, Nicole Zarr Ferrell Harper at Patterson Flynn Courtney Hill Fertitta Dawn Fertitta at C2 Art Susanna Moldawer, Elisabeth McCabe Caroline Read at Patterson Flynn 106