The Houston Design Center is proud to welcome award-winning national design experts Bunny Williams, Jeffrey Dungan, P. Allen Smith, and Ariella Chezar.

All Design In Bloom events are at The Houston Design Center, 7026 Old Katy Road.

9 am – Registration, gift bags, coffee and bites, book sales. At Leisure Collections, Suite 152

9:30 -11 am — Design In Bloom VIP Panel Presentation with designer Bunny Williams, architect Jeffrey Dungan, garden and lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith, and floral designer Ariella Chezar, moderated by Margot Shaw, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Flower magazine. VIP ticket holders will have access to the Bloom Room for hospitality, lunch and book signings. Books will for sale at the event. At Leisure Collections, Suite 152

11:30 – 1 pm — Design in Bloom Luncheon and book sales with all speakers. At Charlotte Nail Antiques, Suite 165

11 am - noon — Award-winning architect Jeffrey Dungan illustrated talk, followed by a book signing of The Nature of Home: Creating Timeless Houses. Books will for sale at the event. At Thorntree Slate & Marble, Suite 167

1 pm - 2:15 pm — Design presentation by the legendary Bunny Williams. Bunny will sign copies of her new book, out this month, Love Affairs With Houses. Books will for sale at the event. At James Craig Furnishings, Suite 298

2:30 - 3:30 — Garden and Lifestyle expert P. Allen Smith presents an illustrated talk, followed by a book signing of Seasonal Recipes From the Garden. Books will for sale at the event. At Scene One Interiors, Suite 109

4 - 5 pm — Ariella Chezar conducts a floral presentation, followed by a book signing of her new book, Seasonal Flower Arranging. Books will for sale at the event. At Alkusari Stone, Suite 229.

5 pm — Wrap up the afternoon at the DESIGN IN BLOOM Spring Mixer, light bites, bubbly and wine. At Dream Theaters, Suite 264.

Then hightail it to MOXIE for an evening with Cabana.

A VIP All Day DESIGN IN BLOOM ticket is included in the $400 Texas Design Week VIP Ticket.

For Half-Day and individual-event Design in Bloom tickets, go to https://www.designinbloom2019.com/schedule-of-events.html.

Where: The Houston Design Center, 7026 Old Katy Road. Complimentary valet parking.

TXDW Sponsor: Bosch Group

The cult of Cabana continues. Join Martina Mondadori Sartogo, founder of the obsessively cool design magazine Cabana, at Moxie, for cocktails, talk and book signing of her lush book, Cabana Anthology. Like any good globetrotting tastemaker, Martina has many facets. She brings to Houston for a sneak peek, her new Indo chic collection of dinnerware, glassware, and table linens (available to order) for a one-night pop-up at MOXIE.

Martina had her finger on the pulse of a new design direction when she launched Cabana magazine in London in 2014. Since then, it’s become one of the most coveted and sumptuous magazines in the world of design. Layered with pattern and decorative elements, filled with rooms bursting with possessions and collections, it’s composed of tactile papers and jacketed with fabric. She has published her first book, Cabana Anthology , a lush collection of interiors from the magazine’s last 10 issues.

 Where: MOXIE, 2031 West Alabama. Valet parking.

TXDW SPONSORS: Bosch Group, MOXIE

Join us for a romp down memory lane as Hutton Wilkinson discusses decoration, ornamentation, and tells tales and spreads gossip about 30 years of working with the legendary Tony Duquette, designing follies, palazzos, theater stages and jewels. Hutton’s tales of their travels with pal Elsie de Wolfe are priceless. Hutton will sign and inscribe, his lavish book, Tony Duquette’s Dawnridge. 

Hutton Wilkinson is the keeper of the Duquette flame, and a wildly talented interior designer with projects around the world and collections of furniture and fabrics. He continues to design the magnificent Tony Duquette jewelry collection.

Here’s a peek into Dawnridge

Rooms brim with Tony Duquette’s fanciful bejeweled sculptures and trompe l’oeil. They teem with exquisite chinoiserie, ancient sculptures of Indian deities, crystal chandeliers, and centuries’ worth of European antiques. Animal prints, red coral, gilt, minerals, and taxidermy abound. It wasn’t enough to encase a stuffed cockatoo under glass; it had to sport a gilt Balinese headpiece and perch atop beautiful shells. “Tony’s philosophy was ‘more is more,’” Hutton says. “It was all about layering,” You didn’t just put paint on the walls; you put fabric over the paint, then you put a tapestry over that, and then you hung a painting in the middle. It was over-decorated to the hilt. 

“If these walls could talk, I assure you, they’d scream!” — Hutton Wilkinson

Where: David Sutherland Showroom, Decorative Center Houston, 5120 Woodway, Suite 170

TXDW Sponsors: Bosch Group, David Sutherland

Life’s not all about sparkling decorators, pithy bon mots and cocktails … we need to get a little work done. Please join Suly Weissman of Bosch Group, as she discusses Kitchen Design With Cooking in Mind, at the newly renovated Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery.

To discuss: Identify the benefits of designing a functional kitchen. Discuss the homeowner's needs and make it functional. Express the goals of the designer. Conduct a Kitchen Questionnaire. Identify the design basics. Discuss the cooking Sub-System Approach.

IDCEC 1.00 Credit

Now you can have a mimosa.

Where: At the newly renovated Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery: 4245 Richmond Ave

TXDW SPONSOR: Bosch Group

We consider artist Jeremiah Goodman the prophet of fabulous interiors. His magnificent illustrations spread the gospel of Diana Vreeland’s garden in hell living room and Betsy Bloomingdale’s chinoiserie drawing room. He painted the rooms of Carolina Herrera, Reed Krakoff, Bruce Weber, Tony Duquette, Cecil Beaton, Elsie de Wolfe, Mary Wells Lawrence and multitudes of other style setter during a career of 70 years, until his death in 2017.

Dean Rhys-Morgan, proprietor of Works on Paper, and an editor and writer, will offer the works of Jeremiah Goodman for purchase: giclée prints signed by the artist, dated and numbered, as well as original illustrations, Rhys Morgan will also sign his lavish new book, Jeremiah: Inspired Interiors. Books will be for sale at the event.

Hosted by Lauren Hudson, Wells Abbott; Ryan Reitmeyer, Retorra Rugs; Karen Pulaski, Tribute Goods, at Hollywood Square.  

WHERE: Hollywood Square, 3637 West Alabama. Valet parking.

TXDW Sponsors: Bosch Group, Wells Abbott, Retorra Rugs, Tribute Goods

Join Katy B. Olson, new editor in chief of AD Pro, from Architectural Digest, as she moderates Contemporary Design in the Traditional South, with panelists and designers Paloma Contreras and Shaun Smith at FOUND.

Where: FOUND, 3433 West Alabama 

TXDW Sponsor: Bosch Group, FOUND

Jean-Louis Deniot is one of the most sought-after interior designers in the world. His dazzling projects span the globe, and include a 40,000-square-foot white marble palace in India, and residences in Hong Kong, Moscow and West Hollywood. Considered the leader of the new generation of French high decoration, and known for exquisitely appointed rooms of great complexity and rigorously perfected proportions, Jean-Louis has skyrocketed to the firmament of the design world.

 Where: The Fayez and Susan Sarofim House, 2124 River Oaks Blvd, Valet parking.

TXDW Sponsors: Bosch Group, New Orleans Auction Galleries