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Wisteria hosts Erin Gates, author of the wildly popular design blog Elements of Style, who will sign her book, Elements of Style: Designing a Home and a Life (Simon & Schuster, $35). See her Tuesday, October 14, 11 am - 2 pm, and chat her up for inspiration and ideas. At Wisteria, 6500 Cedar Springs, 214.350.3115. Some of the most exciting new stores these days are pop-ups pulled together by prominent stylemakers. In the world of Texas interior design, it doesn't get more influential than Emily Summers — she of Architectural Digest's AD 100 list seven years running, and the author of such cutting-edge contemporary interiors as the Antoine Predock- architected house for Deedie and Rusty Rose. Emily Summers Studio 54 (chicly named after her suite address in Highland Park Village, next door to Ralph Lauren) opens October 17. Look for a collection of vintage furniture and custom designs, along with her favorite contemporary lines from Paris, New York and Los Angeles. There's an extensive list of chic finds, but some of Summers' favorites include handcrafted furniture from KGBL, vintage pieces from Maison Gerard, contemporary rugs from F.J. Hakimian and ceramics hand-thrown by Brian Molanphy at Southern Methodist University's ceramics department. Rebecca Sherman ELEMENTS, MY DEAR THE BIG 3-O! The hottest home decor ticket this fall, Thrift Studio, launches Friday, October 10. The biannual fund-raiser for Dwell with Dignity lasts only 30 days, and it's always a mad scramble to get inside once the doors open — the goods are that good. Here's the story: Top area designers team up with showrooms and stores to create fabulous room vignettes. Everything gets sold (and replenished regularly) at deep discounts, with proceeds going to Dwell with Dignity, a nonprofit group of interior designers and volunteers who create inspiring homes for families struggling with homelessness and poverty. This year's cast of stylish collaborators are Catherine Dolen with Stacy Coulter & Associates; Denise McGaha Interiors with ID Collection; Dan Nelson with Vision Design, Inc.; Jan Barboglio with Peacock Alley; eleven 11 DESIGN with Brendan Bass Showroom and Robert Allen Design; Gonzalo Bueno and Mauricio Lobeira for X+III with David Sutherland Showroom; Joseph Minton and Paul Duesing Partners; and Peter Sandel Design, LLC with Mitchell Gold+Bob Williams. For $175, you'll get first dibs on objects and furnishings at the VIP Reception Hour Thursday, October 9 (the party's honorary chair is Tobi Fairley); $125 gets you in the door an hour later for the big party, still in time to beat the rush when the doors open the next day. On your mark, get set … Thrift Studio, Dallas Design District, 1250 Slocum St., Suite 749, 214.599.7974, thriftstudio.com. Rebecca Sherman DWELL FOR A SPELL CAPOTE WOULD HAVE LOVED IT SULTAN OF SLOCUM STREET W hen Cantoni opened in 1984 in Dallas, it was the coolest — if not the only — purveyor of modern furniture from Italy. Thirty years later, the store founded by Michael Wilkov has opened a full-service design studio; designed projects from London to Shanghai to Nigeria; and added a slew of new Italian lines, including a Natuzzi studio and Bontempi Cucine kitchens. Two new collections launched this fall: a 1,600-square-foot shop-in- shop for Calligaris Studio, one of Italy's most playful and fresh furniture design companies, and the Malerba Red Carpet Collection inspired by the glamour of old Hollywood. To show what a good sport Wilkov is, we asked him to play off a few 30th queries. Rebecca Sherman The piece of good furniture every man should have by age 30? A great leather chair to kick back in. You have 30 minutes to get inspired. What would you do? Take a shower. I find my best ideas come to me then. You have $30 to spend anywhere in the world. What would you spend it on? There's a great restaurant in Pesaro, Italy, called L'Angolo di Mario — it's a beautiful seaside resort that overlooks the ocean. A plate of their incredible seafood pasta and a glass of my favorite pinot grigio at lunch time is simply paradise, and it's under $30. What's on your list for the next 30 years? Eighteen holes of golf with "Black Knight" Gary Player … Taking Cantoni to the next level … An Africa safari with my family with a stop in my hometown of Johannesburg … Building myself a modern beach house. 30 years ago, what was your most memorable purchase for the store? The Eros buffet from Malerba. It was an incredible statement piece. Purchasing it for our store marked the start of an enduring partnership with Malerba, the Italian design house that is among the world's leaders in exotic woods and high-gloss lacquers. It's exclusive to Cantoni in the U.S. S tep inside the new doors of Joseph Minton Antiques, one of the city's most admired purveyors of heirlooms. Minton has been selling English, French and Continental antiques on Slocum Street for 15 years, so when his lease ran out earlier this year and a larger space opened up directly across the street, he didn't blink. "We moved from 1410 to 1411," he says. "We hardly have to change our stationery." The new 5,000-square-foot showroom shares a wall with Trinity Lofts, a mid-century-era parking garage that has been converted into showrooms and residences. While his focus is mainly English antiques — his first love — Minton has broadened his inventory to include "choice mid-century pieces that are now becoming choice antiques, like Karl Springer, Maison Jansen pieces from Paris and anything by Jean-Michel Frank," he says. Minton, a former Fort Worth city attorney and a trust officer for a bank, became enamored with antiques and interior design while serving in England with the Air Force. Back in Fort Worth, he opened a design firm with David Corley and, in the mid '90s, opened his antiques showroom in Dallas in the heart of the Design District with Kevin Peavy, the showroom's director. "When we first moved to Slocum, it was kind of spooky after 5 o'clock," Minton says. "Now there are restaurants, people walking their dogs, shopping. It's become a vibrant neighborhood." Rebecca Sherman Joseph Minton Antiques, 1411 Slocum St., 214.744.3111, josephmintonantiques.com Erin Gates Mise en scène at Joseph Minton Antiques Joe Minton and friend Michael Wilkov Natuzzi Re-Vive recliner at Cantoni Malerba Red Carpet Collection Emily Summers, 54 Highland Park Village, emilysummers.com D allas has an art fair, Houston has two, and now Austin gets into the act with the memorably monikered Pop Austin. To organize the weekend-long convergence in our capital city, co-founder/executive director/Austin entrepreneur Matt Randall tapped Lana Carlson — an international curator/gallerist who has exhibited in more than 100 fairs worldwide, from the vaunted Art Basel Miami Beach to Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (aka FIAC) in Paris. As a result, Pop Austin isn't your average art fair: You won't see the traditional aisles of booths. In fact, galleries won't be in attendance at all. "If you take a gallery, a museum and an art fair and merge them into one, you would get Pop Austin," Randall says of the event billed as an international art show and presented in the newly minted 20,000-square-foot Fair Market venue, October 17 through 19. What won us over: The roster of nearly 50 talents shown in-depth and available for acquisition, heavy on the new Chinese such as the Gao Brothers and Zhang Xiaogang, exhibited alongside European classical-conceptual lensman Massimo Vitali; intriguing Russian collaborators/Basel, Switzerland headliners Galina Bleikh and Elena Serebryakova; and American all- stars including Austin's Bale Creek Allen and Jason Archer, street-wise Shepard Fairey, and the omnipresent Andy Warhol. popaustin.com. Catherine D. Anspon POP IS TOP: The Art Show Massimo Vitali's Rosignano 3 Women, 2002, at Pop Austin Emily Summers