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OBSESSIONS. DECORATION. SALIENT FACTS. 12 M a i s o n - d e - m o d e . com — a hybrid sustainable, luxury, e t h i c a l f a s h i o n retailer with a robust website — now has a pop-up shop in Galleria 2 (next to Saks Fifth Avenue) through Tuesday, May 15, stocked with top designers. Maison- de-mode.com was launched in 2015 by Amanda Hearst, an activist, model, and heir to the Hearst Corporation, and Hassan Pierre, a designer with a long- time dedication to sustainable style. The collection is housed in a space designed by Boffo, with ready-to-wear, fine jewelry, handbags, shoes, and accessories from designers Edun, Prabal Gurung, Tome, Amour Vert, Khokho, Behno, Bottletop, Azlee, Bibi van der Velden, Brother Vellies, and more. It's the ultimate luxury, ethical, feel- good closet — not that you don't already feel good when you shop. This just makes it all the better. Maison-de-mode.com, The Galleria, Level 2 next to Saks Fifth Avenue, maison-de-mode.com. E very second Saturday of the month, the stately Uptown Granduca hotel turns its Salone Rialto ballroom into Café Rialto supper club and serves forth a four-course seasonal dinner preceded by cocktails and followed by music and dancing. Inspired by the classic old- world Café Carlyle at The Carlyle hotel in New York, chef Henry Hamour's seasonal menus include dishes such as Ligurian seafood soup, roasted Chilean seabass with white asparagus napped in a lemon butter sauce, veal chop with truffled mashed potatoes and a mango- scented panna cotta with optional wines paired to match. Reservations are $75 plus $45 for wines per person, and special rates are available for those who elect to hole up in a suite after dinner, call 713.418.1104 to reserve. Hotel Granduca, 1080 Uptown Park Blvd., granducahouston.com. Lauran Claridge "E verything is on the table," says art dealer Arturo Palacios, who founded the newly minted Deasil with curatorial collaborator Hilary Hunt. After shedding its brick-and-mortar spot at Isabella Court, as well as its previous moniker (Art Palace) at the end of 2017, the 13-year-old gallery went for the new. Beyond mere pop-ups, it will weave Texas together via a series of rotating nomadic exhibitions. The inaugural lineup began There's a new wave of shopping at The Galleria. Sugarfina, the candy store for grown-ups, opens its first boutique in Houston this month in Galleria 1. Champagne gummy bears, anyone … It's getting fashionably crowded on Level One near the Galleria Financial Center: MCM has moved to a new space on Level One, stocked with its MCM-logo bags, luggage and accessories for men and women; come July, Swiss luxury watchmaker Breitling brings its wares to an 865-square-foot space in the same hood. Meghan West Retail RAP WHEN LUXURY IS GOOD FOR THE EARTH Café SOCIETY ART PALACE REDUX last month with "Square Dance," a project that debuted four shows in four cities in four weeks. It led off with pop-inspired Liz and Maurice Treviño, showcased at Austin's Bale Creek Allen Gallery, followed by abstract painter Raychael Stine at Barry Whistler Gallery during Dallas Art Fair. Deasil then segued into a solo in Houston for former Core Fellow Robyn O'Neil's dystopian drawings, including many never-before-seen works (through May 20). The venue for the O'Neil show is brilliantly sited at the BBVA Compass River Oaks Bank Tower, 2001 Kirby Drive, Suite 1011 (10th floor). On Sunday, May 6, "Square Dance" concludes in San Antonio, presenting CAMH-exhibited Cruz Ortiz at the artist's Snake Hawk Press for one night only. Ortiz's witty, graphic- inspired work is mounted with a side of Tex-Mex music: legendary Texas accordionist and five-time Grammy winner Flaco Jimenéz, paired with Grammy-winning Los TexManiacs. Oh, and about the name: Translated from Gaelic, Deasil is defined as "Following the sun. Dexterous. Considered lucky." deasil.art. Catherine D. Anspon Deasil's Arturo Palacios and Hilary Hunt Robyn O'Neil's It Could Have Been Worse, 2013, at Deasil COURTESY THE ARTIST AND DEASIL JAY TOVAR Maison-de-mode.com at Galleria 2