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All of Dallas' hot spots, fun fashion finds and beautiful people are now in one place: your inbox. Go to the new papercitymag.com to sign up for our weekly edit feed. YOU HAVE CHIC MAIL One of the most eagerly watched urban redevelopment stories in the Southwest is happening in Dallas: two high-profile projects with an arts and preservation focus in the red-hot district of the Cedars. In the arc of downtown south of I-30, the area flourished from the 1870s through the 1920s; first citizens such as the legendary retailer Stanley Marcus were born there. The Cedars' name came from the trees that once predominated amidst stately Victorian homes. In the modern era, it's been known for its proximity to the Farmers Market and Dallas Heritage Village, and the best reasons to visit are the dive bar Lee Harvey's and James Cope's And Now Gallery. Then Claude Albritton III and the Bowdon Family Foundation stepped up, with their respective projects for The MAC and The Cedars Union. The former, the historic Ben Griffin Ford dealership, once sold Deco-era and mid-century wheels; now The MAC will be an anchor tenant in a prime 4,000-square-foot space in a new arts complex at 1601 South Ervay Street, which will also include restaurants, retail and at least one gallery, Ro2. MAC director Rachel Rogerson expects a late 2016 opening. Until then, watch for pop-up programming in its raw space. (Now on view: "New Urban Landscape," through September.) Blocks away, the Bowdon Foundation, spearheaded by CEO/COO Terrell Falk (the fund- raising force who led the charge on the Perot Museum), is looking at several years and a budget of $10 to $12 million to create a game-changing arts incubator out of the 40,000-square-foot decayed industrial splendor of the '20s-era Boedeker Ice Cream plant. The plan for the three-story brick building at 1201 South Ervay Street includes, Falk says, "studio space for approximately 80 artists, tools they need to create their art, an exhibition space to host traveling exhibits and meeting space for art organizations and groups." Projects are also in the pipeline for the neighboring Gulf Cone Building, which once manufactured cones for the ice cream biz, and Dallas' oldest luxury hotel, the Ambassador. the-mac.org, cedarsunion.org. Catherine D. Anspon Beyond Ice Cream and Fords: UPDATE FROM THE CEDARS W hen David Wildman purchased Dallas- based Pettigrew Associates (now Pettigrew Luxury Furnishings) six years ago after the death of its longtime owner, John Orr, he discovered some 500,000 pieces of pristine inventory in a massive warehouse behind the showroom: hundreds of thousands of parts from unassembled vintage rock-quartz and faceted-crystal chandeliers, hundreds of boxes of alabaster lamps; and about 1,200 chairs, sofas, tables and headboards hand-carved in Italy — all in a raw state, waiting to be finished by the showroom's team of artisans. (Pettigrew, founded in 1954, built a reputation for providing custom reproduction furnishings and accessories to the design trade.) "The quantities of what's in the warehouse are just staggering. It's sensory overload," says David, who is majority owner of Pettigrew along with his wife, Donna Wildman. It took years to sort through the Dallas warehouse's original stockpile to determine what was there, since most of it was still encased in decades-old crating and packaging. This extraordinary hoard will now be available to purchase in late April at a tented tag sale to be held outside the Pettigrew showroom in Dallas. "This is a dealer's or a designer's dream," says Ernest Maese of Lewis & Maese Antiques & Auctions (lmauctionco. com) in Houston, which is handling the sale. "We're marking everything 75 percent off what the owner paid [wholesale] decades ago," says Maese, "with further discounts on Saturday and Sunday and for bulk purchases." Valued at $9 million, the inventory includes full Baccarat- and Waterford-style chandeliers, some seven feet tall; multitudes of individual vintage rock-crystal, rose- and amethyst-quartz drops, as long as 10 inches; antique European chairs and tables acquired by Orr that were used as models for reproduction in Italy; stacks of old carved frames; Bombay chests painted in a base of dirty gray or dirty white; and unfinished French-style bergères and Directoire-style furniture. Wildman is also offering excess inventory at deeply discounted prices from his two other businesses next door — Coupralux giclée printmaking studio and Wildman Framing. Open to the public, Friday – Sunday, April 22 - 24, 9 am – 2 pm, at Pettigrew, 1805 Market Center Blvd., Dallas, 214.747.2232, pettigrew-usa.com. Rebecca Sherman Pettigrew's Passel of TREASURES R ally 20 of the city's top chefs, have them whip up a signature sampling from their restaurant, throw in live music, turn a driveway into a twinkling utopia, and you will have mastered the magic behind TACA Lexus Party on the Green — this year set for Friday, May 6, at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek and led by chair Tierney Kaufman Hutchins and honorary chair Lynn McBee. It's our idea of the ideal evening under the stars, with scrumptious fare, live music and wine pulls, all benefitting The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), which raises funds and provides grants for myriad performing arts organizations in North Texas. Information 214.520.3930, taca-arts.org. Jane Rozelle SAVE THE DATE: TACA Party on the Green T he first conversation I had with makeup artist Ashley Robinson was about koi fish. I was on my way to a fashion shoot where she was doing hair and makeup, and she called me on my cell. She would be late, she said, because two of the koi that lived in the pond running through her modernist house had died. Robinson, in her optimistic, otherworldly way, had to say goodbye to them properly. Not knowing Robinson well at the time, this seemed a bit quirky. But after years of working with her, it all makes perfect sense. While she made people look flawless for a living, she was beautiful in the truest sense of the word: In her perceptive, spirited, soulful way, she made life light — even in its somber moments. When she passed away unexpectedly on February 28 at the age of 48, she not only left a void in the industry for which she was legend, but she left a space in the lives of the countless people she profoundly impacted. Friends have referred to her as the consummate earth mother — a force of nature who had a way of innately understanding people. She was calming in that way, yet full of life. During a memorial service, appropriately held at Lee Harvey's, the mix of mourners says it all: There were models whose memories of Ashley had little to do with her talents with a makeup brush, but much to do with her ability to make them feel safe and confident. There were photographers, hair and makeup artists, art directors, stylists and editors who couldn't imagine working without her collaborative and positive presence. There was her family and her closest friends, who remembered her for her gentle strength, her effortless grace and for the depth of love she had for her two sons. As for me, I think I will miss her bright-eyed giggle the most — the one that made you feel connected and reminded that this was one of the most colorful, interesting people you've ever met. Christina Geyer Remembering A Force of Nature JAKE TOLER Ashley Robinson Boedeker Ice Cream plant, circa 1929, soon to be The Cedars Union COURTESY CEDARS UNION COURTESY THE MAC Giovanni Valderas' No Hay Pedo, 2015, at The MAC COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE MAC The MAC's new home in The Cedars ROBIN MCMONIGLE 214.543.6903 rmcmonigle@briggsfreeman.com rosenberrygroup.com Announcing...