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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. W hen Meow Wolf Radio Tave unveiled in the Fifth Ward, it marked the artful franchise's fifth site since its founding in Santa Fe eight years ago. The Houston edition's surreal and unique participatory installation takes over 32,000 square feet of the circa-1917 Moncrief-Lenoir warehouse on Lyons Avenue, across from Saint Arnold Brewing Company. Permanently on view, Radio Tave offers a deeply layered cabinet- of-curiosities narrative spun around its construct of a small-town radio station. It's arrayed in a labyrinth of room-like vignettes that advance the story in an otherworldly, nonlinear way. Don't expect a traveling light-and-sound showcase of the kind that recently explored van P erigold, the website we love to haunt for top-name home goods, is opening its first brick- and-mortar store spring 2025 in Houston's Highland Village Shopping Center. The formerly online-only retailer, a higher-end division of Wayfair, that launched in 2017, was the first to bring together in one place high-end brands for the home, from furniture, accessories, wallpaper, and lighting to tile, bath, tabletop, and kitchenware. The 20,000-square-foot Highland Village store will stock names such as Aerin, Georg Jensen, Alessi, Flos, Kartell, Poltrona Frau, Louis Poulsen, Moooi, Schumacher, Tom Dixon, and Visual Comfort, as well as Stark, Loloi, The Rug Company, and Dash & Albert rugs; linens from Frette, Sferra, John Robshaw, Ann Gish, Matouk, and Yves Delorme; outdoor furnishings from Dedon, Kingsley Bate, and Lloyd Flanders; and kitchen and bath brands Viking, Dacor, Victoria + Albert, Kallista, and Devon&Devon. Spaces dubbed Brand and Designer Shops showcase inspiration from design partners including Houston's Marie Flanigan, a longtime collaborator with Perigold. Laurann Claridge Meow Wolf Roars Gogh, nor the Instagram eye candy of Museum of Ice Cream. Meow Wolf Radio Tave feels like Dominique de Menil tapped a contemporary curator the likes of Walter Hopps to be a muse in dialogue with a 100-year-old behemoth of a building — its chambers filled with nooks, crannies, and doors serving as portals to a time-traveling multiverse, equal parts sci-fi and film-noir nostalgia. Kudos to Meow Wolf Houston's artist liaison, the king of aerosol action himself, Gonzo247, with curatorial contributors DeLUXE Theater's Harrison Guy, past Lawndale director Christine West, and CAMHLab's Y. E. Torres. Consequently, there's plenty of hometown love: More than 50 of its 100 artists hail from Houston. What a Wunderkammer of creativity — no other Meow Wolfs can boast a two-time Whitney Biennial talent (Trenton Doyle Hancock), past Texas Artists of the Year (Hancock and Havel Ruck Projects), and a litany of museum-exhibited creatives (MFAH Core Fellow Bill Davenport, Asia Society- featured Loc Huynh, Fifth Ward native El Franco Lee II). As a bonus, Houston's own DJ Fat Tony lays down cool tracks t h ro u g h o u t t h e entire hallucinatory experience. Tickets from $40, children from $25, annual Portal Pass $84; Meow Wolf Radio Tave, 2103 Lyons Ave., meowwolf. com. Catherine D. Anspon Going for the Perigold Perigold Perigold opens in Houston's Highland Village spring 2025 Izzy Hines' Desolate Desert at Meow Wolf Radio Tave