Who:  Designer Summer Thornton, Chicago

What: Coffee and morning mimosas, illustrated talk and book signing with Summer Thornton, 10 am to 12:15 pm

Decorations: 1stDibs 50 List, Sotheby's Top 20 Designers to Watch, 100,000+ Instagram followers

Published: Architectural Digest, Veranda, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times

Book: Wonderland: Advenures in Decorating, Rizzoli 2022

Why you can’t miss: Design advice such as: “If there is one thing I want you to take away from my book, it’s to free yourself from decorating rules and the fear of what others will think. Be emboldened by what you see in these pages. Find your style and go for it with reckless abandon. Don’t think about trends or this year’s hottest colors…It’s your home, you make the rules.” – Summer Thornton 

Where: David Sutherland Showroom, 1025 N. Stemmons Fwy., Suite 340, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: The 10 Best Dressed Beds

What: Texas Design Week Dallas Lunch and the 10 Best Dressed Beds and Panel Discussion: Tips and Tricks for Chic Sheets, 12:30 to 2:15 pm

Why you can’t miss: The Art of Dressing the Bed with 10 Celebrated designers and LUNCH! 

Where: The Luxury Bed Collection, 1444 Oak Lawn, Suite 316, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Designers Richard Mishaan, NYC, and Stewart Manger, NYC, Moderated by Chesie Breen

What: A Panel Discussion — The Importance of Important: Furniture, Art and Objects, 2:30 to 4:15 pm

Books: Richard Mishaan: Design, Architecture and Interiors (Vendome, September 2022.)  Stewart Manger: Romancing the Home: Stylish Interiors for a Modern Life (Rizzoli, September 2022).

Why you can’t miss: Richard Mishaan's work ranges from a 400-year-old barn in the Hamptons to the Rat Pack-influenced Shelborne hotel in South Beach and the Tcherassi, a renovated 250-year-old mansion in Cartagena, Colombia. Sprinkled throughout Stewart Manger's new book are insights on building a sophisticated art collection, collaborating with local artisans, choosing timeless fabrics, and combining modern art with classic architecture. Not to miss — Stewart's re-colored dreamy de Gournay Rateau-inspired wallpaper in a Paris residence. 

Where: Cantoni Trade, 960 Dragon Street, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

“The best interiors are layered and rich... I adore creating synergy between collected pieces whose common thread is a tonality, a texture, or simply the excitement they evoke in the client who chose them..” — Richard Mishaan

Who: Christopher Peacock, NYC; Andrea Schumacher, Denver, Santa Barbara; Doniphan Moore, Dallas.

What: Kitchen Confidential and Afternoon Cocktails with Monogram: a panel discussion on all things kitchen design, 4:30 to 6 pm

Street cred: Chrisopher Peacock began his bespoke cabinetry brand in 1992 in Greenwich, Connecticut, designing beautiful handrafted classic British cabinetry, made to order in the United States. He now has showrooms across the US and in Cannes and Jakarta. Doniphan Moore's scene-stealing master bath and dressing suites at  the 2020 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, propelled his design careeer to new heights. 

Where: Doniphan Moore Design Studio, 3610 Fairmount

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: A Salon Talk with Designer Hutton Wilkinson with Tony Duquette and Christie's VP Will Strafford, at Arsin Rug Gallery. For VIP Ticket Holders and by Invitation. 

What: An Illustrated Talk: Behind the Scenes of Christie's Auction of the Ann & Gordon Getty Collection of 19th and 20th Century Masterworks, Decorative Arts, English and European Furniture, Porcelain and Silver and More, 6 to 8 pm. 

Street cred: The Getty's don't do street cred.

Decorations: 19th and 20th Century Masterworks, Decorative Arts, English and European Furniture, Porcelain and Silver, Chinese Works of Art, Books in more than 1,500 lots sold over four days in October in NYC. The sales include important Impressionist pictures by Claude Monet and Edgar Degas and an exquisite group of Old Master paintings and drawings by artists, including Bernardo Bellotto and Jean-Antoine Watteau. A distinguished group of English and continental furniture complemented the fine art in the Gettys’ house. Ann and Gordon Getty had a special love for lacquered furniture produced in England and Europe, inspired by Chinese and Japanese prototypes that reached the West in the 17^th Century.

Recognized as one of the finest interiors in the world, proceeds will benefort the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation for the Arts.

Where: Arsin Rug Gallery, 1025 N. Stemmons Fwy., Suite 747, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Alessandra Branca, Chicago, LA, NYC, Palm Beach; Anthony Baratta, NYC; Lance Scott, NYC, Palm Beach; moderated by Nazira Handal,  Kips Bay Decorator Show House

What: Behind the Scenes at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House panel discussion with three design greats, all who are designing rooms at this year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas. They're deep in the trenches, 10 to 11:45

Street cred: Alessandra Branca, with offices in Chicago, Palm Beach, Los Angeles and NYC, has recently launched Casa Branca — her collection of textiles, wallpapers, furniture, porcelain and linens, available in Dallas through James. Born in Rome, Alessandra is working on projects around the world. 

Anthony Baratta is one of the most celebrated and respected interior designers of the day known for his bold use of color and scale that honors tradition while defying predictability. His work has been celebrated in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now, and he was named one of Traditional Homes 20 Design Icons. He renovated the historic residence, Drumthwacket, for the Governor and First Lady of New Jersey. In 2018, Baratta received a prestigious designation as Designer in Residence, at Colonial Williamsburg.

Lance Scott is partner in newly formed LC Studio with Cecily Waud, a design firm based in New York and Palm Beach. Prior to launching LC Studio, Lance worked at the esteemed firm of David Kleinberg Design Associates, where he was a partner with 16 years of tenure. Living between New York City and Palm Beach, projects include an Upper East Side townhouse, 5th Avenue family apartment, a storied 1920s country home, and the renovation of a regency home in Palm Beach.

Nazira Handal: If you've ever designed a room for Kips Bay, or wanted to, you know Nazira Handel, whose hands touch every aspect. The fearless leader for all Kips Bay Decorator Show Houses in NYC, Palm Beach and Dallas. 

Book: Anthony Baratta: Decorate Happy: Bold, Colorful Interiors (Rizzoli)

Why you can’t miss: Who doesn't want to hear the behind-the-scene stories of the legendary Kips Bay Show House. 

Where: Roche Bobois, 1707 Oak Lawn, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Alex Papachristidis, NYC

What: Illustrated Talk and Book Signing, noon to 2:30 

Street cred: One of the most recognized designers in the world, editors, designers and clients’ alike use the word “fresh” to define his elegant approach, color palette, and the delightful details that make even a small room sizzle with style. Mario Buatta called Alex “one of today’s eminent tastemakers. Known for arresting, elegant interiors that meld classical motifs with a modern perspective and sophisticated details.” Papachristidis’ interiors can be found all over the world from Manhattan, the Hamptons, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and Colorado — to London and Saudi Arabia.

Decorations:  Alex served for several years as Decorating Chair for the Southampton Hospital’s annual summer gala. He is a four-time participant in the Kips Bay Decorator Show House and The Hampton Designer Showhouse. He continually appears on the AD100 List, Elle Décor A-List and the NY Spaces’ Top 50 Designers List.

Published: Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Southern Accents, InStyle and The New York Times. 

Book: The Elegant Life: Rooms That Welcome and Inspire (Rizzoli, September 2022) 

Why you can’t miss: "Growing up, I traveled widely and saw many beautiful homes in Europe and America, which helped cultivate my eye. And I was born to shop!” — Alex Papachristidis

Where: Jan Showers Showroom, 1308 Slocum Street, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Modern Matter All-Star Collaborators Mark D. Sikes, NYC; Sarah Bartholomew, Nashville; Barrie Benson, Charlotte; Young Huh, NYC; Eddie Ross, NYC; Michelle Nussbaumer, Dallas; with Modern Matter founders Kat Weeks Mulford and Lee Addison Lesley

What: Panel Discussion: When Hardware Matters, and pop-up of the newest Modern Matter collaborations and collections, 2:30 to 4:15

Street cred: The cutest bunch of collaborators, and founders Kat and Lee's story is a discussion on its own!

Books: Mark Sikes will sign More Beautiful: All American Decoration (Rizzoli) and Michelle Nussbaumer signs Wanderlust: Interiors That Bring the World Home (Rizzoli)

Why you can’t miss: Modern Matter's seriously glamorous hardware is pure product customization ... see the pop-up of the newest collaborations and collections at Elegant Additons 

Where: Elegant Additions, 150 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 203

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Designers Mark D. Sikes, L.A., Philip Gorrivan, NYC, and Schumacher Creative Direcor Dara Caponigro, NYC, in an Illustrated Talk with Moderator and Author Carl Dellatore — More is More is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors 

What: Three designers whose work appears in this lush new book, discuss why minimal is not in their wheelhouse. Instead, enchanting rooms of jewel-like color, glorious pattern, lacquered ceilings, geometric floors, and brilliantly massed collections of furniture, objects, and art abound, 4:30 to 6:15 pm.

Street cred: It takes genius desigeners to balance the pattern, hues, textures and objects in this lavish interiors. 

Decorations: Others whose work appears in the book: Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Redd Kaiholi, Summer Thornton, Ken Fulk, Bunny Williams, Michelle Nussbaumer, Steven Gambrel. 

Book: More is More is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors (Rizzoli, September 2022)

Where: OKA, 4531 McKinney

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Veranda Magazine's Steele Marcoux Hosts the always entertaining author, chef and master host Alex Hitz, L.A., NYC, Atlanta, Palm Beach, with book signings

What: Cocktails, Salon Talk and Book Signings, 6:30 to 8 pm

Street cred: Alex Hitz is the author of the wildly popular My Bevery Hills Kitchen, contributing editor Town and Country and former food editor for House Beautiful, a post he inherited from Ina Garten. Steele Marcoux, eidtor in chief Veranda Magazine, signs her newest book At Home in the South: Interior Design Reimagined.

Decorations: The Wall Street Journal annointed Alex the very best host in the world. 

Published Alex: C Magazine, Quest, Southern Living, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Departures 

Books: Alex Hitz: Ocassions to Celebrate: Cooking and Entertaining With Style (Rizzoli, September 2022). Steele Marcoux: At Home in the South: Interior Design Reimagined (October 2022)

Why you can’t miss: A Southern raconteur with witty asides, Alex plays host to the A-list and beau monde from Atlanta to Park Avenue and Beverly Hills. He's a consummate entertainer and bon vivant — who can really cook. Steele Marcous IS Veranda Magazine. What a Southern smash team.

Where: Location to be announced. 

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Alessandra Branca, Chicago, NYC, L.A., Palm Beach; Lisa Fine, Dallas, Paris; Clay McLaurin & Todd Piercy, L.A.; and Serena Dugan, Sausalito

What: Eye-openers and new collections to peruse, 9:30 to 11 am

Alessandra Branca has launched Casa Branca, an exuberant collection of textiles, wallpaper, objects and furniture. 

McLaurin & Piercy’s artful and authentic offering folds in the beloved prints and wallcoverings from Clay McLaurin Studio to live alongside the new American-woven textiles, which include performance and indoor/outdoor fabrics. 

Why you can’t miss: An eye-opening mimosa, a little work and meet the designers of four dynamic textile and fabric collections.

Where: James, 1025 N. Stemmons Fwy., Suite 250, in the Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Jamie Drake and Caleb Andrson, Drake/Anderson, NYC

What: Illustrated Talk and Book Signing, 10:30 am to 1 pm

Street cred: Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson bring their respective takes on glamour, curation, and elegance to bear in a range of luxurious residential and commercial projects. Jamie is widely regarded as one of the first designers to popularize Modernism in interior design, beginning in the 1980s. He is known for his fearless approach to color as well as his fashion-conscious sensibility. Caleb is lauded for his layered approach to interiors and the confidence with which he juxtaposes a variety of historic periods from the design continuum. Projects include polished interiors in Manhattan’s One57, 70 Vestry, 520 Park, and Herzog & de Meuron’s 56 Leonard —as well as in sprawling Hamptons estates, Malibu beach houses, stately London townhouses, and lush retreats from Bermuda to the Middle East and around the world.

Decorations: Individually and as a team, Jamie and Caleb have achieved the highest awards and accolades in the industry, including the Elle Decor A-List, Architectural Digest AD100 list, Interior Design magazine’s Hall of Fame, House Beautiful’s Master Class and Next Wave, among others.

Published: Everywhere

Book: Jamie's first new book in 17 years, and their first book as a duo: Bold: The Interiors of Drake/Anderson (Rizzoli, Sptember 2022)

Why you can’t miss: LEGENDS!

Where: Sherle Wagner International, 1025 Slocum, Dallas Design District.

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Country gentleman and potter Christopher Spitzmiller, NYC, Rhinebeck

What: Salon Talk and Book Signing, 1:30 to 3:30 pm

Street cred: The ultimate weekend farmer who raises his own handsome chickens, grows his own flowers, and puts up jam, cider and honey from the most idyllic 1840s Greek Revival farm house in NY's Hudson Valley.

Decorations: On the board of the Garden Conservancy and the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Spitzmiller has most likely won prizes for his chickens at the Duchess County Fair. 

Published: Christopher's lamps, tableware, and ceramics are found in every chic A-list interior, including the White House fof four sitting presidents, and are regularly featured in celebrated publications including Architectural Digest and the Wall Street Journal.  

Book: A Year at Clove Brook Farm (Rizzoli 2021)

Why you can’t miss: He gossips over the fence with next-farm-neighbor Martha Stewart. And the chickens!

Where: Blue Print, 2701 Fairmount

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Jean-Louis Deniot, Paris, with Schumacher Creative Director Dara Caponigro, NYC

What: Afternoon cocktails, illustrated talk and book signing with Jean-Louis Deniot, one of the world's most recognized figures in design and architecture, and Schumacher creative director Dara Caponigro, 4 to 6 pm. 

Street cred: With an ambitious list of locales that resembles the index of an atlas, Jean-Louis Deniot's current projects include private homes in Beverly Hills, townhouses on New York’s Upper East Side, the Waldorf Astoria New York residences and amenities, a 57 story residential tower on Biscayne Bay in Miami, a residential tower in Palm Beach, private historical townhouses on Belgravia Square and Wilton Crescent, Cambridge House (In & Out Club) Hotel, restaurants and private club, houses on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar in Tarifa and Tangiers, a spacious country home in Moscow, private homes in New Delhi and Chandigarh India, family residences on Hong Kong Bay and in Bangkok.

Decorations: Called 'the modern master of French interiors" by Forbes, Jean-Louis' work has appeared in every top design publication. 

Book: Destinations: Jean-Louis Deniot (Rizzoli, September 2022) 

Why you can’t miss: He's irresistable. 

Where: Schumacher Showroom, 1025 N. Stemmons Fwy., Suite 300, Dallas Design District 

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Suzanne Tucker, San Francisco

What: Morning illustrated talk and book signing

Street cred: Suzanne is one of the four founding Directors of the Northern California Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and currently Director Emeritus, having served on the board for fourteen years. She also serves as a Director on the National Board and has co-chaired the prestigious Arthur Ross Awards in New York since 2014. She has been the Chair of the San Francisco Fall Show since 2015. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation and on the West Coast Council of The Garden Conservancy.

Decorations:  In 2015 Suzanne received the Design Leadership Award, in 2016 she received an ICAA Julia Morgan Award for Residential Interior Design, and in 2017 Suzanne was the inaugural honoree at the ICAA Northern California Legacy Dinner. In 2020, Suzanne was honored with a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Academy of Art University.

Book: Suzanne Tucker: Extraordinary Interiors (Monacelli, October 2022)

Why you can’t miss: A pasion for architecture and the decorative arts, Tucker worked under the legendary California designer Michael Taylor

Where: Allan Knight showroom, 150 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 101

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Suzanne Kasler, Atlanta

What: Illustrated talk and book signing

Street cred:

Decorations:  

Book: Suzanne Kasler: Edited Style (Rizzoli, September 2022)

Why you can’t miss: 

Where: Markowicz Fine Art, 1700 Oak Lawn, Suiute 200, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS

Who: Ken Fulk, San Francisco

What: Cocktails, illustrated talk and book signing with Ken Fulk, one of the world's most recognized figures in design, 5 to 7 pm.

Street cred: A designer of experiences, Ken Fulk has spent 25 years develping a business by elevating the daily lives of his clients, not only designing their homes, jets, restaurants and hotels but also creative directing birthdays, weddings, and family getaways.

Collaborations: Ken is a co-proprietor and creative director of properties and historic hotels in New Orleans and the Berkshires. In 2018 he founded Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting local artists at revitalized historic landmarks in San Francisco and Provincetown. Coming up: the re-opening of The Chrysler Building's famed Cloud Club.

Decorations: Fulk has been named to the AD100 list and Elle Decor A-List, and was twice nominated for a James Beard Design Award.

Book:Ken Fulk, the Movie in My Mind (Assouline, 2022)

Why you can’t miss: He's entertaining at its pinnacle!

Where: The Rug Company, 1626 Hi Line, Suite B, Dallas Design District

Texas Design Week Dallas Sponsors: Dallas Design District, HN Capital Partners, Monogram Luxury Appliances, New Orleans Auction Galleries, The Container Store, MOUS