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12 letter editor HUNT SLONEM A s we finalized the last issue of the summer, I spent time in our house archives, where we keep the past 25 years of houses PaperCity has photographed. It's not dusty and spider-webby, but it does bring back memories. Highlights are the Menil House, which we photographed following its early-2000 sensitive restoration by the late William F. Stern and David Bucek of Stern and Bucek Architects. This was the first residential house commission designed by Philip Johnson, and the only house ever designed by couturier Charles James — never mind that this was the home of John and Dominique de Menil. Then there's the Round House in Dallas, designed by the great organic master Bruce Goff. We've photographed multiple homes for antiquarians and artists David Lackey and Russell Prince; designers Randy Powers, Garrett Hunter, Richard Holley, Renea Abbott, Jon Green, Michael Landrum, Kay O'Toole, Fred Smith, Denny Lyons, Margaret Naeve Parker, Karen Lantz, and Jerry Jeanmard; and artist Salle Werner-Vaughn … just because they're so damn good. The amazing Gaudí- inspired Animal Farm compound in Cat Spring has such gravitas. Others that are just as good today as when we photographed them: Plaster artist George Sellers' amazing whipped-cream interiors; George Cameron Nash's smoky, sexy drinks room fashioned after Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle; Judge Roy Hofheinz's Celestial Suite on the penthouse floor of the Astroworld Hotel; and artist Nestor Topchy's ethereal compound fashioned after London's Crystal Palace. Then there are the artists, gallerists, and collectors whose homes rocked our world: Hiram Butler, Robert McClain, Marilyn Oshman, Mary and the late Roy Cullen, David Shelton, Mariquita Masterson, Christian Eckart, the late Bert Long Jr., Jay Shinn, McKay Otto, Rusty Arena, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston director Bill Arning, to name a few. These are our kind of people. Holly Moore Editor in Chief holly@papercitymag.com