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55 ART + DECORATION T wenty years ago, Jim Hines envisioned opening a gallery that would com- bine his twin passions: contemporary art and furniture. A mortgage banker at the time, he put the idea on the backburner — but not before securing the name and website GuggenHome, a play on the stellar museum moniker. "I reserved it believing that, at some point, I'd be able to integrate fine art and hand- crafted contemporary furniture together," says Hines, who spent the next two de- cades socking away a nest egg to fund the project. Last year, he and his husband, attorney Martin Wingerter, decided the time was right to take the plunge. They spent months searching neighborhoods for the right store location before settling on a Riverfront Boulevard warehouse across from the Dallas Contemporary, which they renovated. Filling the store with products was the easy part — Hines and Wingerter simply looked to the craftspeople and artists whose work they'd discovered for their own home over the years. Gug- genHome's offerings include small un- der-the-radar lines such as Wewood, a Portuguese artisan brand that makes contemporary oak furniture by hand using ancient brass joinery techniques. Brooklyn-based Wüd Furniture Design features handmade pieces by sculptor Corey Springer in unusual combinations of red gum wood, Australian walnut, and hot-rolled steel encased in resin. Also from Portugal are mid-century inspired lighting from Delightfull and Christian Lacroix's porcelain dinnerware and crys- tal for Vista Alegre. Hines and Wingerter are art collectors, and they've mixed in works by some of their favorite artists, including Dallasites Tamara White and Julie Dailey; San Francisco-based Rick Griggs; and Austrian Andrezj Majorowski. Jan Kath's astonishingly beautiful Erased Heritage rugs, which combine Oriental carpet techniques and old patterns with an overlay of modern, colorful silk designs, drape the walls like the coveted art they are. GuggenHome, 1426 N. Riverfront Blvd., 972.807.9255, guggenhome.com. Rebecca Sherman HOME AND ART COLLIDE H ere's a news fl ash from our nation's capital that design constituents can rally around: Much-loved Washington, D.C., de- signer Darryl Carter has launched his fi rst collection for Baker/Milling Road. Furniture, lighting, upholstery and textiles explore the juxtapositions and tensions between classical and modern for which Carter is known, contrasting light fabrics with dark woods. His updated take on traditional American furnishings distills Federal- style lines and details, popularized in the 18th century by Duncan Phyfe, to their most beautiful and basic, with scroll-arm sofas and chairs, tufting, brass details, and nailhead trim. A former lawyer who's now on the AD 100 list, Carter peppers his collec- tion with modern geometric tables, straight-edged sofas and chairs, and sculptural lighting in stone and iron. It's the ultimate bipartisan effort be- tween contemporary and traditional. Price on request, through the Baker showroom, Dallas Design Center, 1250 Slocum St., Suite 790, 214.741.2586, bakerfurniture.com. Rebecca Sherman THE CARTER Administration Darryl Carter for Baker/Milling Road