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in this ISSUE A U G U S T 2 0 1 4 | S T Y L E | FA S H I O N | S O C I A L 4 , 6 , 8 P O P. C U LT U R E . G O S S I P. 12 Party: Hermann Park Evening in the Park commemorating 100 years 14 Pick of the New: Fresh spots to gaze and graze 10 Parties: Bayou Bend Garden Party; Rienzi Spring Party 22 Style: Follies and foliage T aking a blank canvas and creating something meaningful can be incredibly rewarding. Every day, people jump into a new career — not knowing a damn thing about what they're doing — and over the years become an expert in their field. Doctors and ditch-diggers alike do it. How about having a baby? Yeah, there are books, but it's a pretty raw and humbling experience, and it sometimes makes you feel like an idiot! Then, you look up one day, and your child is healthy, smart and independent. Kudos to you! I've found that growing businesses has been immensely rewarding. I didn't know what a publisher's role was when I bought into a fledgling publication called The Paper back in 1996. Holly Moore and Becca Cason Thrash had started it a couple years prior, but in 1996, it was basically a thin, quarterly one-man-show. We agreed that I'd take over the business end so that Holly could focus on her talent for creating beautiful content. I self-taught myself ad sales, circulation, marketing and all other things magazine. I personally sold all the ads for my first six months before realizing: Magazines have salespeople — I want one of those! And the road to growth began. Several years ago, I realized that a good publisher should focus almost exclusively on revenue creation. I was too wrapped up in other aspects of the business, so I started to shift more responsibility and created ad department managers. Today, this transition comes full circle. A decade ago, after spending several years in the ad and PR business in New York, Monica Bickers joined us in sales. Her savvy and tenacity brought her great respect among her clients, and she grew to handle all the national fashion and jewelry accounts, in addition to managing other reps. Same for Mary Hoang-Do, who joined us almost a decade ago as an office assistant, then sales assistant, and then grew into a senior sales rep. Mary's recipe for success is something we now teach to all new reps. Today, we announce that Monica Bickers is PaperCity's publisher, and Mary Hoang-Do is our group associate publisher! I'm not going anywhere (sorry, staff) but will simply shift great responsibility to these two. And, as it's also a publisher's duty to fully represent the magazine, Monica will take over writing this monthly letter — unless, of course, I really have something to say … Jim Kastleman President jim@papercitymag.com 20 Design: Transforming Memorial Park — a walk in the park with landscape architect Thomas Woltz We've begun harvesting our list of must-attend fund-raisers for PaperCity's Fall Social Calendar, covering the brisk months of September through December. Please submit all the essential details for your charitable tickets — event name; day, date and starting time; chairmen, honorary chairs and honorees; beneficiary; party notes (caterer, theme, attire, special appearances, entertainment); ticket and table starting prices; and contact info, including phone, email address and website to Erin Oppenheim, erin@papercitymag.com, no later than Friday, August 8. Calendar Call 24 Design: The casa of landscape designer Cedar Baldridge 32 Art: Texas Contemporary Art Fair, year four 34 Re-entrée: Your go-to guide for where to be and what to see this fall I n a PaperCity exclusive, Roset USA executive VP Antoine Roset chatted via email about the storied history of the Ligne Roset brand. Catch Roset, in from New York, at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair. Roset will dish on "The Art of Design" Saturday, September 6, 2 pm, in the Fair's VIP Lounge designed by MaRS; Q&A with Roset led by MaRS principals Kelie Mayfield and Erick Ragni. On the founding of Ligne Roset. My great-great- grandfather started the company in 1860, manufacturing umbrella handles and wooden seat frames. In the 1950s, my grandfather Jean decided to extend the production to sofas. In the '60s, he met Michel Ducaroy, who became head of design at that time. Ducaroy created a variety of very innovative all-foam products — his most iconic piece remains the Togo, designed in 1973. Under the influence of my father and my uncle, the company became a global company with more than 750 stores worldwide, still based in France. We are the number one French manufacturer of high-end contemporary furniture and remain one of the most creative in the world. Classics from the decades. Togo, Peter Maly and Nomade-Express; all three are still part of our collection. Design collaborations that stand out. Obviously, we are very proud to have been able to work with Jean Nouvel twice — the first time in the late 1980s and more recently in 2011. We are also very proud of our collaboration with the Bouroullec brothers (Facett, Ploum), Philippe Nigro (Confluences, Flax, Cosse), Inga Sempé (Moel, Ruché), Pierre Paulin (Pumpkin, Tanis, Elysée), Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance (Ottoman, Torii, Estampe), Toshiyuki Kita (@-chair) and many others that I cannot name because the list will be far too long. On your radar. Philippe Nigro has been named the 2014 Designer of the Year in the "Now! Design à Vivre" section of Maison et Objet. He is a great and talented designer to follow and we have had the exciting opportunity of working with him for much of his career. DESIGN DIALOGUE with Antoine Roset BROUGHT TO YOU BY LIGNE ROSET HOUSTON Philippe Nigro's Cosse collection for Ligne Roset A s you float along the Mediterranean blue waters, so shall your fragrance.. Our top pick from the Tom Ford Neroli Portofino collection: Mandarino di Amalfi. It's a destination unto itself, conjuring a Mediterranean grove of mandarins along the romantic Amalfi coast. $210 for 50 ml, $520 for 250 ml, at Neiman Marcus. Jenny Antill Summer in a Bottle SIMON GENTRY Monica Bickers MAX BURKHALTER I am in Fayetteville, traveling 10 miles per hour behind a lumbering farmhouse that has ignobly been split into two halves, with the open sides resembling a dollhouse when you turn it around and look at the back. All the rooms open, walls seared off, rooms stacked one upon another … My heart was beating fast. Did the house just wobble? Will the beautiful chimney be rebuilt with native stone? Would the scars from the incision in the metal roof and wide planked floors be stitched back together appropriately? Why did I care so much about this wide load? Because it was mine. The story up until this day began almost a year prior, when I began searching for land around the rolling hills of Round Top, New Ulm, Industry, Fayetteville. I spoke to Frank Hillbolt at Round Top Real Estate, and we began the journey of looking for the perfect parcel. My requirements were: at least 25 acres, rolling topography, heavily treed, wildlife or agricultural exemption in place (tax break), septic, water already in place and a charming farmhouse — historical, nothing from the past 75 years — on the property. Frank knows the area inside and out; the Hillbolts have owned Round Top Real Estate for 25 years, and he soon came up with a list. I searched the Lands of Texas website and emailed everyone I knew in that area of the world. Had they heard of anything wonderful for sale? If truth be known, it was really an old farmhouse I dreamed about. My 16-year- old son, Ben, wanted hunting and four- wheeler accessibility; Olivia, my 11-year- old horse-crazy pre-teen, wanted a horse barn. So, combined, we had our wish list. We looked at a pyramid-shaped house built of stucco in the 70s with a four-mile- long access road that took 20 minutes to travel, and a Victorian-era farmhouse with an oilwell pump nestled next to it, but we also saw extraordinary lands sadly out of our price range. One day in December, Frank emailed and said, "You need to get down here today — tomorrow at the latest. A new listing came up, and it's going to go fast." I felt like the overseas adoption agency had called and said, "We have your baby!" I met Frank at the property the next morning. And driving down a road I had never seen before, turning onto a dirt road with an allée of mid-sized live oaks planted years before by a previous owner … I knew. A small cabin dipped down into a hollow, and there was a pond bordered by river birches that needed to be refilled and miraculous trails through stands of mossy oaks, pines and other brands of trees I've yet to research. At the back end of the property was a clear rock-bottom creek, which, the seller's agent tells me, has a waterfall after a good rain. It was 36 acres of bliss with septic and water, and a wildlife exemption, and I bought it on the spot. The small cabin was … small: 528 square feet. So I began the search for the perfect farmhouse to be moved to the property. And here I am, following my dream at 10 miles per hour … To be continued in September. Holly Moore Editor in Chief holly@papercitymag.com HUNT SLONEM AUDE ADRIEN Antoine Roset