Design on Dragon-Thursday Night

The annual Design on Dragon happens tomorrow night where the design streets duke it out over who can have the best block party. Come out to see if they can outdo the Slocum event a couple of weeks ago! Shops and galleries are throwing open the doors, complete with vino, music and food enticing you to invest in a new piece of art you've been eyeing...see you there!

Dallas Design Showroom NEST Hosts Blogger Social

For all of my fellow Dallas bloggers you are invited to "POST" - A blogger's social hosted by one of my favorite bloggers, interior designer Beth Dotolo who pens the oh, so fab - hello, splendor and Kelly of the fabulous k blog will be opening the doors of the new NEST digs on McKinney Ave. offering up cocktails and cupcakes - what can be better than that! So RSVP tonite to get a sneak peak before the grand opening bash and the first 30 who show will snag a great swag bag full of goodies!

Ghoulishly Glam Interiors

In honor of Halloween I am posting some not-so-Martha-Stewart-Halloween shots of LA based interior designers Carole Katleman's and Daniel Cuevas design who tricked out a London based town home that was formerly the 18th century pad for a British prime minister. I love the minimalist approach of incorporating some ghoulishly glam accessories while still maintaining that "this house wasn't hit over the head with a witch's broomstick look."

Love the blood red conversation area against the cool monochromatic gray, and of course Mr. Skull Bones....

Dallas Local Ceylon et Cie Showroom on One Kings Lane Sale!

One of Dallas' own prime time designers, Michelle Nussbaumer will be taking her Ceylon et Cie showroom merchandise to one of the fastest growing online retailers, One Kings Lane, this Saturday. She will be joining the ranks of Michael S. Smith - some know him as THE designer of the Obama's new digs, and also another Dallas showroom, Allan Knight & Associates. The retailer specializes in hosting private sales to members at unheard of bargains - but only for a limited time, with very limited amounts of merchandise. So set your coffee maker and be first in line to nab the hottest goods before they are Kaput!

Daily Dose - B u r n

"The only people for me are the MAD ones, the ones who are mad to LIVE, mad to TALK, mad to be SAVED, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who NEVER yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles EXPLODING like spiders across the s t a r s...

- Jack Kerouac

Cinematic Prose - My Weekend in Movies

You know when you "know" your going to remember something, so you don't write it down...like a new restaurant to try, a band to catch in town...and then it is forgotten by the time your thought reaches the end of the sentence. I do that ALL the time, especially with music and movies. Thankfully with Shazam my eardrums are getting ample amounts of new music, or new to me.

I have been wanting to see "A Single Man" since I saw the still of Julianne Moore in mascara streaked raccoon eyes perching on the fabulous curved sofa, a very similar one sits in the Allan Knight showroom in the International on Turtle Creek. Well and the fact that it was produced by Tom Ford, Gucci's main designing man since 1990 so I knew the fashion would be spot on, as well as the interiors. The men were groomed to absolute perfection of course (why can't straight men dress like this too?!) and I loved the Mid-Century time period, the cars, the clothes, the architecture...the interiors. Here are some stills to share with you...just rent it, but be prepared for a dark tale of loss and desperation.

And then this...it was a Mid-Century weekend I guess. I stopped in at Antiques Moderne on Friday evening to scope out some chairs and that may have done me in.

"Factory Girl" tells the tale of socialite and heiress Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) who was introduced to Andy Warhol during his Factory days where he was beginning his next exploration using film as his medium for his creative outlet. Sedgwick was the star in many of the movies, fast becoming Andy's muse, his IT girl - she even went so far as to mimic his iconic hairstyle.

Sedgwick soon met and seemed to fall in love with, Bob Dylan - however Warhol while openly gay (but some think a virgin) became somewhat obsessive and controlling of their relationship and Sedgwick ended it to appease Warhol, later to spiral into drugs and alcohol when finding out Dylan had married and partly burying her childhood terrors as well. Her father was abusive and distant while her mother turned a blind eye, and most of the children were institutionalized when growing up. She was able to escape New York and went back to California, but her nightmares still followed her.

She died of an overdose at the age of 28.

A still - in The Factory

A promo for the movie, Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen who plays Bob Dylan

Edie Sedgwick

April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971

To Do List: Slocum Street Style

Did I fall off the side of Earth, you asked? Well...yes, actually...I will post the pictures soon! So I am starting up sloooww with a post of our Design District's very own Slocum Street Style happening next October! The Design District opens its doors for a night of strolling showrooms, good food, good music and good friends. Also designers can earn CEU credits at the INSPIRE! event happening in conjunction with Slocum Street Style. Be sure to register early for the events as space is limited! Hope to see you there!