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April 2014 - Dallas

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D avid Sutherland Showroom, in its first move into retail, debuts the Costa teak outdoor furniture collection in collaboration with Restoration Hardware. Design powerhouse Gary Friedman, CEO of Restoration Hardware, has teamed up with Sutherland for the manufacturing of the collaboration, which David Sutherland calls "a natural extension of the ongoing success of the Perennials Fabrics and RH association over the past four years." Friedman has been a fan of Sutherland since he built his own home in Tiburon, California overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The collection, designed by the late John Hutton, marries contemporary design with a classic foundation. From $615, at Restoration Hardware, restorationhardware.com. Jane Rozelle A ndy Warhol had his fingers on all facets of Pop culture, including wallpaper — most famously, visages of classic cows and even Chairman Mao. Now the very avant-garde Brooklyn-based Flavor Paper has been tapped by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to place Monsieur Warhol on your walls. The posthumous collaboration called for raiding the archival icebox of Pittsburgh's most notable native son to seek inspiration for a new collection of wall coverings, all shaped by the topics, themes and motifs explored by the king of 20th-century art. Nine designs pay homage to both well-known and unexpected sides of Warhol, from the camo prints that seem so now to the shamelessly regal Queen Elizabeth. Also, watch for papers of the artist's feel-good flowers, campy paint-by-numbers recreating sailboats and a landscape, the sophisticated and brooding Empire after Warhol's six-hour film of the same name that worships Gotham's Deco tower of power, shoe motifs for stylish swans and the ultimate confluence of religion and art history: the painter's ode to da Vinci's The Last Supper. From $10 per square foot for Do It Yourself paint-by-number themes to $450 per roll for Flowers; exclusively in Texas at Urbanspace Interiors, Austin, or online at flavorpaper. com. Catherine D. Anspon W hen looking to celebrate the 110th birthday of pioneering designer, photographer and architect Charlotte Perriand, there are only so many suitable ways to do so. Fortunately, Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina has no shortage of industry know-how and contacts. In collaboration with Louis Vuitton, 20th-century design icon Perriand is remembered, honored and celebrated by way of a limited-edition reissue of the LC4 chaise longue designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Perriand herself. For the occasion, Vuitton was given the opportunity to reimagine the chaise in a manner that speaks to the heritage of not only its design origins but also the French leather-goods company's trademark quality materials. Thus, the limited edition of 100, which debuted at Design Miami/Art Basel Miami Beach, has a self-supporting mattress identical to the initial model, which the trio devised in their Parisian studio at 35 rue de Sèvres; the flesh-tone saddle leather has contrasting brown leather for the footrest and neck roll, all sourced by the Louis Vuitton tanneries. Other Vuitton details include the trademark yellow stitching for the finishing of each piece. So prophetic was Perriand's aesthetic that even today, one cannot imagine a more beautifully functional piece. Price upon request, at Scott + Cooner, scottcooner.com. Seth Vaughan Domestic Art: Curated Interiors, published by Assouline, is now in its third printing and is once again available for purchase. The selected houses in this book were pulled from the pages of PaperCity — roughly a decade of design alchemy and clinking highballs. The editors of this book foraged for the musty and gutsy, the soaring and sensual, ranging from a 500-square-foot bedsit to a mid-century organic architectural wonder — 37 glorious projects, from follies to disciplined mansions, from Dominique and John de Menil's International-style house with its interior by the great couturier Charles James to artist Christian Eckart's abandoned 1940s warehouses polished to gleaming architectural wonder. Marvel at a compound of rescued early-1900s clapboards and an 1880s German-immigrant cottage. We've included a '50s masterwork by the great organic architect Bruce Goff and an industrial space that crackles with its own surreal designs, while a chalet-style 1913 bungalow manifests the best bits and pieces of the past. A turn-of-the-century seaside gingerbread is a study in anthropology peppered with good art; an antiquarian aims his cerebral arrows at Louis this and Louis that, then electrifies it all with saturated color; and an old-world hunting lodge is installed in a downtown loft space. Meanwhile, a stylish gent sips scotch neat in his Scotch Room, watched over by two mounted deer, a pheasant and a wildebeest. Shouldn't everyone have a wildebeest … and a Scotch Room? $65, at Chapter Two in Highland Park Village, assouline.com. JENNY ANTILL S tylish winds have gusted through the Houston and Dallas showrooms of George Cameron Nash. Nash tapped Houston-based interior designer J. Randall Powers (a member of Elle Décor's A-List with a pedigreed client roster that dapples North America) to freshen the merchandising and look of both spaces, in an additional role as creative and design director of the George Cameron Nash Companies. (Powers still runs his eponymous design firm.) On a recent walk through the Houston showroom, managed by Cynthia Wells, Powers affirmed a return to warmer, softer, well-edited spaces that respect classical ideals. Nothing illustrates this sensibility quite like pale-pink angora curtains; gray spaces, Powers proclaims, are over. In the 21,000-square-foot Dallas showroom, overseen by Mark Williams, this has meant the incorporation of imaginative vitrines (in an ode to New York's D&D building) within the space's central gallery, in which the latest from the likes of French fabric house Dedar, Elizabeth Hamilton, Travers and Rogers & Goffigon can be properly highlighted. In the Houston space, the company's desire to reflect an evolving aesthetic is achieved in the entry, which has been painted a complementary shade of pink and is segmented into four distinct vignettes. Furthering the impact is a conscious choice to commingle samples on the floor from the slew of lines they carry, including Michael Taylor Designs, Dessin Fournir, Rose Cumming and Quatrain. Such an approach exemplifies the manner in which one might live with such fine furnishings. Salient new offerings include fabrics from Hermès' La Maison home division, with more additions in the works.The greatest impact of all, however, is the proprietor's hope for the changes: Everything will be new again. And so it is. To the trade in the Dallas Design District; georgecameronnash.com. Seth Vaughan Paradigms At George Cameron Nash Shifting The Pop king's The Last Supper for Flavor Paper Warhol's Queen Elizabeth for Flavor Paper Warhol YOUR WALLS BOOKED CHARLOTTE! Joyeux Anniversaire, TEAK Sleek Mark Williams, George Cameron Nash, Randy Powers in the reimagined GCN Showroom Cassina and Louis Vuitton LC4 CP chaise longue, an homage to Charlotte Perriand

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