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The sunroom does double duty as play area. horns, the Houston performance of which we did with Art Cars. These events were all thrilling surprises, and each of them was only possible because of partnerships with other great Houston arts organizations. SPRING 2013: WHAT���S IN YOUR PLANNER. A huge avant-garde spectacle at Discovery Green this April featuring the UH Cougar Marching Band and a visiting composer from New York. A joint artist residency with The Menil Collection (to be announced). We have a big surprise celebrity coming in next fall for a performance. We cannot wait to announce all this soon! I am also really looking forward to the Blaffer Art Museum exhibition ���Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art��� next fall. There will be lots of strange food, drinks and conversation in and around the museum. Can���t wait! Vintage Gibson F4 mandolins, 1922, 1912 and 1927 HOUSTON TABLES. A power lunch: Pondicheri. Family meal: Raven Grill. Date night: Divino. HOUSE MUSIC. Stephan is in charge of music at our house. He chooses radio stations (he prefers obscure college radio) and can pick up any instrument and play a bit. He plays piano, violin and mandolin with the children. Sometimes he will break out a gypsy song, other times he plays Bach. The children compose their own music, complete with lyrics. It���s funny and great. WARDROBE STAPLES. I get inspired when I shop in Nolita in New York. For shoes, I love Sigerson Morrison. For clothes, anything goes. For board meetings, my favorite item is a vintage ���80s Chanel skirt that was a hand-me-down. I have yet to ���nd anything modern that ���ts as well as that skirt. SPLURGES. Home design: Kuhl-Linscomb. Fashion: Leap, Laboratoria and The Little Bird, an incredible consignment shop in an improbable location by the Galleria. Art: Texas Gallery. YOUR ���HOOD AND CASA. My neighborhood is Southampton. The house was built in 1940. We have lived here almost two and a half years. We moved in just before Stella was born, and we never really ���nished setting up and unpacking. When you have young children, function always overrides form. Stephan and I have moved numerous times over the years, and my strategy is always simple: Paint everything white and go from there. We didn���t renovate, but we did paint, and my biggest splurge was on wallpaper. We have some of the most wonderful wall coverings in the house, my favorite of which is the custom wallpaper with images of matchsticks by Este Lewis that we used in the bar: http://soyeste.com. Top left: In the sunroom/breakfast room, the Mitchell Center���s director catches up on art reading. Vintage table by Eero Saarinen, with contemporary chairs from Design Within Reach. Chandelier is Zettel���z by Ingo Maurer. ���The paper is Japanese paper, and we have added to the notes by asking friends and family to create new ones,��� Farber says. She wears a Suno top and Zero + Maria Cornejo pants, both from Leap; shoes by Miu Miu from Saks Fifth Avenue; cuff and earrings by Michael Spirito, Sloan/Hall. Top right: Across the mantel, from left: A Tony Feher drawing scored at the DiverseWorks Luck of the Draw fund-raiser earlier this year. Claude van Lingen���s graphite, I Am Right, You Are Wrong, 2004, another auction ���nd. Dario Robleto���s Untitled (Shadows Evade the Sun I) and Untitled (Shadows Evade the Sun II), 2012, from Inman Gallery, based on images snapped by random fans during concerts. LATEST ACQUISITION. Nearly everything in our collection riffs off another artistic medium ��� music, dance, text. I love work that traces something live ��� a contemporary version of actionbased art. One of my favorite pieces is a charcoal drawing by Trisha Brown that she made with her body. There is a line from her shin and toe prints in the upper right corner. Above: The French plaster chandelier in the dining room was a ���nd from Found. About the ���ock of butter���ies that encircle it, Farber recalls, ���It took [Texas artist] Margarita Cabrera three full days to install these with tiny nails hammered into each and every one.��� The Cabrera piece was commissioned through Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles. Middle right: In the living room, Farber wears a pleated vinyl skirt and blouse, both by Lover, from Laboratoria. Julian gives a performance. Foreground: Rachel Hecker���s Nobody Called: Everything you ever wanted to know about yourself or someone else can be found within the outskirts of your life, 2006, from Texas Gallery, a gift from husband Stephan after Julian���s birth. For more about Ms. Farber, tap papercitymag.com. Right: In the dining room, a reclaimed wood table from Restoration Hardware pairs with S chairs by Verner Panton. Margarita Cabrera���s riotous copper butter���ies emit a statement about U.S. and Mexican relations at la frontera. On the ���oor, The Art Guys��� Study for Piano for Remote Performer (���rst performed in 1992). DECEMBER | PAGE 59 | 2012