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Alton in the House. The Best Part of Waking Up Is Folgers as Your School. Flotsam and Jetsam. If you are in the design world in Houston, you know Alton LaDay, who moved to San Diego about a decade ago, and whose first book is out this month, In the House: Celebrating America's Leading Black Interior Designers (Monacelli). Look for the vibrant work of Rayman Boozer, Rodney Lawrence, Brigette Romanek, and more. P ritzker Prize-winning firm OMA, co-founded by Rem Koolhaas, and develo- per Frank Liu (POST Houston) are reimagining one of Houston's industrial landmarks, the Folgers Coffee Plant in the East End, into a pre-K-through- eighth-grade tuition-free charter school that pairs academics with creativity, unveiling in fall 2027 as the Frank Liu Jr. Academy of Music and Arts (FLAMA). flama.org. N i g e r i a n - A m e r i c a n artist Dozie Kanu, whose debut furniture collection for Knoll launched at Salone del Mobile 2026, was born and raised in Houston, and was inspired by Texas car culture — tricked-out, customized slab wheels. Leather furniture tops nod to African drums, while the tasseled fringe skirts speak both to African ceremonial dress as well as Texas cowboy. $3,061 – $8,682, at DWR – Design Within Reach. A silverplated coffee pot, deconstructed then stitched back together with delicate chainmail-like metalsmithing, caught our eye at a recent MFAH Glassell Studio School exhibition. Its creator is Houston's Edward Lane McCartney, who is celebrated this fall in Houston Center for Contemporary Craft's silver-anniversary show, "A Material Inheritance," opening September 5. $3,500, through Hooks-Epstein Galleries. A dmirers of the avant-garde and punk- rock aesthetic of Swiss artist Bernhard Schobinger will flock to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this month for his first exhibition stateside — necklaces formed from nature (including a meteorite) paired with precious materials and salvaged finds (fishing lures and wedding rings pulled out of Lake Zürich over decades of the artist's dives). September 3, 2026 – January 3, 2027, MFAH. Heirloom Silver. Slab to Fringe. 26 Dozie Kanu console table for Knoll COURTESY KNOLL Edward Lane McCartney, Heirloom Impotence, Flayed and Flaccid, 2025, at Hooks-Epstein Galleries Bernhard Schobinger, Magdalénien Necklace, 2021, at MFAH MFAH, HELEN WILLIAMS DRUTT COLLECTION. © BERNHARD SCHOBINGER. PHOTO THOMAS R. DUBROCK LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR Dozie Kanu FLAMA will be part of Lovett's Fábrica development. COURTESY LOVETT The home of Malene Barnett, designed by Leyden Lewis, as featured in Alton LaDay's new book In the House PRATYA JANKONG