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14 PaperCity DESIGN AWARDS ACCEPTING Entries J ulie Koch's Elegant Additions plumbing, hardware, fixtures, and lighting for the bath and kitchen has moved from its longtime space on Bartlett Street to 104 West 12th Street, corner of Yale, in the Heights. The 100-year- old building houses 4,800 square feet of top-notch lines, including Vola faucets, Devon & Devon, Watermark faucets from Brooklyn, THG Paris Collection of faucets, Kallista, Rocky Mountain Hardware and Bronze de France. New to the showrooms is Hastings Couture Collection, William Holland English baths, and more ... Jerry Jeanmard and partner Laura Hudson have opened Wells Design showroom and retail storefront at Decorative Center Houston. Wells Design, founded more than 60 years ago by legendary Houston designer Herbert Wells, has long been a staple among Houston's upper crust. The new showroom stocks the Wells Design Collection of furniture, which is based on archival sketches hand-drawn by Herbert Wells himself, discovered last year while the company was moving its offices, as well as Ann-Morris Lighting, O. Henry House furnishings, Pintura Studio, and Vermilion Rugs. More on the showroom in March PaperCity … Heights Mercantile development at 741 Yale Street welcomes three new- to-the-market boutiques this summer: San Francisco-based Marine Layer, contemporary women's boutique Saint Lo, and Dallas-based shop The Gypsy Wagon. R vs. A: It's the battle of realism versus ab- straction, analogous to a Super Bowl matchup. On one side, there's retro realism by Wood Fancher Anthony. Personally col- lected by President Obama and recently hanging in the White House, the painter's nostalgic take on border cul- ture is on view throughout the big game, at the Esper- son Gallery at GreenStreet (through February 17) … At the opposing end, the starkly reductive aesthetic of Gray Contempo- rary celebrates its second anniversary with a group view, "Combined," which includes Texan Otis Jones (through February 18) … At Zoya Tommy Gallery, Houston grand master Perry House continues his unique meldings of realism, surrealism, and abstraction in- cluding works based on his alter ego, the Pete paintings (through February 11). Romancing Banality: Nomadic artist Lyle Carbajal touches down at Art League Houston (through March 11). His ambitious exhibition, which opens a week after the inauguration, transforms the nonprofit into everything from an electronics repair shop in Mexico City to a Manila junk shop. He taps musical headliners (including Houston-based Yung Turk) to compose a rap opera and adds a film component to comment on personal and public spaces, and the urban fray Catherine D. Anspon ART NOTES C a l l i n g d e s i g n e r s , decorators, architects, landscape designers, furniture, and product designers! It's that time of year again: The annual Houston PaperCity Design Awards, which celebrates design creativity and innovation, is now accepting entries. Houston design professionals, regardless of affiliation, are encouraged to enter projects across 19 categories for residential, office, retail, historic preservation, garden, furniture, and product design. The Design Awards cocktail event to announce the winning entries will be in May 2017, date to be announced. Winning entries will be published in the October 2017 PaperCity Home + Art issue, print circulation 60,000, with 900,000 online page views per month (Houston and Dallas combined). A panel of esteemed national design judges will be announced soon. Explore the 2017 Houston PaperCity Design Awards categories and submit your entries at papercitymag.com/designawards. Entry period closes Monday, March 6, at 11:59 pm CDT. For information, contact Farrell Lawo, farrell@papercitymag.com, 713.986.0005. Retail RAP COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ART LEAGUE HOUSTON Lyle Carbajal, coming to Art League Houston COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ESPERSON GALLERY AT GREENSTREET Wood Fancher Anthony's The Birthday (El Cumpleaños), 2016, at Esperson Gallery at GreenStreet COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ZOYA TOMMY GALLERY Perry House's Colorful Pete, 2006, at Zoya Tommy Gallery OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS.