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A pril is a grand month. The Houston PaperCity Design Awards at The Houston Design Center is on the horizon. This year we had a record 297 entries from designers and architects — it would have been 301, but four came in at 12:02 and 12:04 am after the midnight deadline. Don't you hate when that happens. Read all the details about the Awards (below right). A back whack has to go to Alton LaDay of Alton LaDay Media, who is our partner in the Awards and works tirelessly making each Awards year a bit more thoughtful and grander than the last. We will open the entry site for the Dallas PaperCity Design Awards at the closing of the Houston judging period on April 5, and it's off to the races to create and produce the Dallas awards this fall in the Dallas Design District. But before this all happens, I'll be heading to Round Top for the Round Top Antiques Fair (end of March) and to take a look at the new skirting on the farmhouse. I finally decided on lattice, after contemplating stone. Lattice feels dreamy. And who could guess the good luck that living next door to my farm is a retired master carpenter from Houston, Rolland Soape. After some persuasion, Rolland temporarily retired from retirement and has installed the lattice, with picket fencing going in next. Then, finally … the gardens. I'm devouring gardening books. A handful of my favorites: Bunny Williams: An Affair With a House; Private Edens: Beautiful Country Gardens by Jack Staub; The Southern Garden by Lydia Longshore and Southern Accents magazine; and, for the pure joy of reading about gardens, this little gem: Mrs. Whaley and her Charleston Garden by Emily Whaley. Best spring ever. Holly Moore Editor in Chief holly@papercitymag.com in this ISSUE A P R I L 2 0 1 6 | S T Y L E | F A 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. I have just returned a mini-vacay in Round Top, where Susanna Maida, proprietor of Round Top Inn, hosted an evening cocktail event celebrating PaperCity's Round Top special section in our March issue. Round Top Inn is far from your standard B&B. Everything about it is charming and perfect, down to the intimate wine bar, Prost, where you can grab a bottle or glass of great wine and sit by the fire. People flock in droves to this quaint town twice a year for the antique shows, but the real gems of Round Top can be found off-season when the town is quiet. One constant refrain of the weekend were the locals telling us how much they loved PaperCity and couldn't wait to get their hands on the issue each month. This has been our mantra from the beginning: to create a beautiful and engaging product that people "can't wait to get their hands on." And, while we have been doing this for 22 years, we are only five months away from the new PaperCity — our perfect-bound publication that will be even more perfect. We can't wait to share the new "us" with everyone, near and far. Monica Bailey Bickers Publisher monica@papercitymag.com HUNT SLONEM Holly Moore 20 12 Style: Latin fever 52 Parties: Community Artists' Collective Luncheon; Glasstire Off Road 17 Style: John Varvatos: Rocking it Style: Houston's Habsburg: Tatiana Galitzine 26 Fashion: Fashion as art 10 Party: Another Great Night in November benefitting CAMH 33 38 42 45 48 Decoration: What's new in the design whirl Design: Art dealer Barbara Davis' serene high-rise Design: Art Gensler on the subject of Gensler's 50th Art: Irving Penn retrospective at Dallas Museum of Art Art: New galleries: David Shelton Gallery, Cindy Lisica Gallery, DiverseWorks, Capsule Gallery, Gray Contemporary Design: Houston's high-rise boom 57-67 PC House + Art DAVIDE MUNESTERI COFFMAN Monica Bickers T he 2016 Houston PaperCity Design Awards received a record number of entries: 297 in 15 categories. The awards recognize outstanding residential interior design, interior architecture, retail, restaurant and gallery design, garden design, historical preservation, product design and more. On Tuesday, April 12, the winners will be announced and presented at a cocktail event at The Houston Design Center; winning entries will also be featured in the October 2016 PaperCity Home + Art issue. The 2016 panel of judges consists of L.A.- based designer Suzanne Rheinstein; New York-based designer Vicente Wolf; Connecticut and New York- based architect Roger Ferris; and San Antonio- based architect Vicki Yuan of Lake/Flato. Suzanne Rheinstein is a member of the Architectural Digest AD 100 list and the Elle Décor A-List. Vicente Wolf is a member of the Architectural Digest AD 100 list and has been named one of the 10 most influential designers in the U.S. by House Beautiful. Architect Roger Ferris, whose firm Roger Ferris and Partners was founded in 1986, has won more than 70 awards and international citations; the book Inventive Minimalism: Architecture by Roger Ferris + Partners will be released by The Monacelli Press in June. Architect Vicki Yuan is an associate with Lake/Flato; the firm's work has been honored by more than 200 awards and has been named to the Architectural Digest AD 100 list. The judges sifted through 2,300 photographs and 297 descriptions to arrive at their decisions. Rheinstein, Wolf and Yuan will present the awards the evening of April 12. Earlier in the day, The Houston Design Center Spring Market begins at 11:30 am with keynote speakers Rheinstein and Wolf, moderated by Robin Mueck, CEO of Heritage Properties, in the Alkusari Stone Showroom, followed by a light lunch. Rheinstein will sign her new book, Rooms for Living (Rizzoli); Wolf will sign his fourth, The Four Elements of Design (Rizzoli). At 4 pm in the Ken Kehoe & Co. showroom, Robert Leleux will discuss his new Southern Style Now festival in New Orleans (May 18 – 22), which showcases top design talent (Bunny Williams, India Hicks, Richard Keith Langham, Suzanne Rheinstein, Shaun Smith, Brian Patrick Flynn) and features keynotes, discussions, cocktails, dinners and a showhouse. Spring market events are gratis, but reservations are required. For information and to reserve, go online to thehoustondesigncenter.com/ springmarket. M ore than six years since his passing, Lee Alexander McQueen's dissident spirit lives on through designer Sarah Burton. This savagely beautiful Knuckle box clutch by Alexander McQueen makes you want to dip yourself in red paint, no? $3,295, at Neiman Marcus, Tootsies. Francine Ballard OBSESSION Spring Market and PAPERCITY DESIGN AWARDS NIGHT AT THE HOUSTON DESIGN CENTER Suzanne Rheinstein Vicente Wolf Vicki Yuan Roger Ferris