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M cKinnon and Harris' first Texas showroom has opened in the heart of the Dallas Design District — and if you're not familiar with the Richmond, Virginia-based outdoor furniture company, you're in for a treat. The airy, all-white space on Slocum Street is filled with potted olive trees, extraordinary antiquities from the Renaissance and Roman eras, and some of the finest bench-made aluminum furniture available, designed for estate, garden, and yacht. McKinnon and Harris' Virginia workshop and headquarters has a similar elegance and otherworldly quality, which one design industry journal described as "something of an artist's studio meets mad scientist's lab." Expert artisans train there for up to five years to master the skills needed to weld, sculpt, and perfect the company's aluminum frames, with techniques borrowed from the marine and aeronautics industries. The result is metal furniture impervious to corrosion, making it ideal for year-round use in the harshest of climates, even a sun- blistered Texas terrace. The new Dallas showroom incorporates some of McKinnon and Harrison's newest introductions, including the Thirza and del Palma Color collections and the Bon Air dining table. In October, the company launched Scout Folding Yacht collection of seating in polished stainless steel, Italian The Alfresco Life performance fabrics, and marine-grade leather. The foldable dining chair and accompanying stool and table collapse into slim and portable silhouettes. Sister and brother Anne and Will Massie founded McKinnon and Harris in 1991, and their showrooms represent everything they love: antiques, gardening, and making things. The classic Greek olive trees and the Massies' private collection of antiquities are a presence in every showroom. In Dallas, you'll find artifacts such as 2nd-century Roman marble Togatus, a Byzantine limestone font from the 4th through 6th centuries, and a pair of late-19th-century Val d'Osne snake urns. McKinnon and Harris, Dallas Design District, 1209 Slocum St., mckinnonharris. com. Rebecca Sherman McKinnon and Harris Buie aluminum dining chair with herringbone back Scout Folding Yacht collection T imothy Corrigan, interior designer and serial French c h â t e a u r e s t o r e r, h a s introduced a delightful new collection for Perennials that's designed specifically for indoor use. The three new fabric designs are Stripe Du Jour, an unexpected wide stripe in plush velvet; Leaping Leopards, a reversible woven animal pattern in bright colors; and Les Fleurs, a soft chenille fabric with a subtle botanical motif. All are made from indestructible, solution-dyed acrylic, of course. This is Corrigan's second collection for Perennials — his first launched in 2019 — and he's added several new Tibetan knot rugs to the collection, along with new colorways for such favorite fabrics as his flame-stitched Feel the Heat and statement- making Go for Baroque patterns. Perennials by Timothy Corrigan, at David Sutherland Showroom. Rebecca Sherman Inside Story Perennials Leaping Leopard Stripe Du Jour 85