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CESAR RAMIREZ JOLLY GOOD PILLOW Your couch: "Oh my gosh, I'm so honored to meet you!" Anna Wintour pillow: (silence) Your couch: "Seriously, I'm such a big fan of American Vogue." Anna Wintour pillow: (silence) Your couch: "I've had a subscription since I was just a cushion!" Anna Wintour pillow (avoiding eye contact): Pillows by Gaston Marticorena "I see you're still here. Can you send someone to plump me?" New Yorker Gaston Marticorena gets you up close and personal with the imperious editrix: four different front-row designs digitally printed on sumptuous cotton and stuffed with the finest goose down. We can't imagine her allowing it any other way. 18" square pillows $310 each, at Grange Hall. Amy Adams WINNERS by a Nose In the FAMILY'S WAY Not content with her career as a writer, journalist and creator of the verygoodlooking.com blog, Sally Horchow aims to modernize the company her father Roger Horchow founded 40 years ago (and ultimately sold to Neiman Marcus). As the Horchow brand's new lifestyle director, Horchow compiles her personal picks in an online boutique — current favorites include personalized chevron napkins, Jonathan Adler throws and hand-woven seagrass baskets — plus dispenses personable, expert advice on decorating and entertaining via video. horchow.com. Amy Adams Rare FORM Chess set, circa 1927, $95,000 of its individual personality.) Equally notable is the circa-1925 Visionary Lamp ($55,000), which weighs in at 4.4 pounds of mirror-finished sterling silver, making it both a gleaming addition to one's bedside table and a chic weapon against home intruders. The Vulcain vase, circa 2007 — crafted from a single sheet of sterling silver — requires more than 600 hammer strokes to achieve its perfectly oval shape ($29,500); while the pitcher's deftly flared solidsilver body and Indian-rosewood handle (circa 1930; $78,700) takes the dispensation of orange juice to a whole new level. Hermès; 21 Highland Park Village, 214.528.0197; appointments recommended. Amy Adams Andy Warhol's Annie Oakley from "Cowboys and Indians," 1986, at Heritage Auctions How the WEST WAS If you don't own a lighthouse, at least smell as if you do. LAFCO owner Jon Brasler makes it happen with his oversized art glass diffusers featuring fragrances from the original candle collection. (Guests at The Mansion are well acquainted with LAFCO's Daffodil scent sweetly permeating the lobby.) Match each essence to a specific room or to the contents of your real estate portfolio. Latter choices include the aforementioned Lighthouse, as well as Ranch, Beach House, Ski Lodge, Farm and Tree Aerie. According to Brasler, "These aren't diffusers you have to hide behind a bookcase. We don't include LAFCO art glass diffusers, logos on them because once they leave the store, they're $95 each yours … not ours." Expect the essential oils to last between six months and a year. The key, Brasler says, is to place them well away from vents and, assumedly, wayward ships. At LAFCO, Nicholson-Hardie, Stanley Korshak. Amy Adams One can't blame a dish that chooses to run away with a Puiforcat spoon. Originally established as a familyowned cutlery workshop in 1820, the company was purchased by Hermès in 1993 and continues to produce designs that inspire both love at first sight and serious squabbling amongst those jockeying for great grand-meré's estate. From October 3 through 27, a selection of Art Deco and more contemporary pieces will leave Puiforcat's closely guarded archives for a rare public appearance at the Highland Park Village Hermès store. The show's standouts include a sterling-silver, ivory and Macassar-ebony chess set designed in 1927 by fourthgeneration family member Jean É. Puiforcat, selling for $95,000. (Bobby Fischer types will note that each piece's shape reflects its possible path on the board and the characteristics COURTESY HERITAGE AUCTIONS For She's a WON Just in: Heritage Auction's Modern and Contemporary Art Signature Auction — curated by department head and art historian Frank Hettig — is brimming with rare pop treasures. Among the highlights are a suite of understated black-and-white Lichtenstein drawings (well-timed with the late artist's worldwide traveling retrospective), and from 1986, Andy Warhol's take on the wild west, an Annie Oakley color screenprint (estimate $15,000 – $25,000), perfect for a modern cowgirl. Also starring on the block at Heritage's Slocum Street Dallas locale are a rediscovered, newly authenticated Richard Diebenkorn and a very droll Marcel Dzama, joined by offerings by avantgardist Vik Muniz, Robert Longo and Tim Eitel. Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction, Tuesday, October 23, 10 am (Previews October 20 – 23); Heritage Auctions, 1518 Slocum St., 214.409.1444; ha.com. Catherine D. Anspon PC Acquire T his month's PaperCity Acquire taps Texas native Aimee Jones, whose high-octane canvases have us scrambling for adjectives: neo-geo, ab-ex mated with expressionism plus touches of fractiles and cubism, overlaid with a net of riotous neon, joined by a proliferation of found objects, assemblage and some pretty fine drawing. In other words, Aimee Jones' I Got This One, 2012 mind-blowing. If Timothy Leary still walked the earth, Jones' creations would grace his walls. Her aesthetic also incorporates a sly fashion component, with a wink and a nod to '80s acid-washed bravura. Jones' credentials include a BFA in painting from the University of Houston (2003) and a decade spent as a catalyst and provocateur, exhibiting in some of Texas' most celebrated art spaces. She's also shown in Miami, Chicago, Kansas City and Monterrey, Mexico. For her PC project, Jones created four new canvases, which we've curated with 10 more of her greatest Aimee Jones in studio with Good Feelings, 2010 hits — offerings that range from $600 to $6,000. About her latest art-making, the onthe-top-of-her-game talent told us: "My current work wrestles between painting, drawing and installation. Each piece demonstrates the everyday struggle of trying to keep it together. A controlled chaos of sorts, recording the internal battles of the good, the bad and the ugly." For Jones' complete portfolio, peruse papercitymag. com; inquiries Seth Vaughan, seth@papercitymag.com.