Date: Tuesday, September 21, 10 am to Noon, at Schumacher showroom.

Who: Designer Ashley Whittaker discusses her traditional-with-a-punch style of decorating, and signs her new book The Well-Loved House, one of the best descorating books of the year. 

What: Ashley, a modern throwback to Sister Parish and Bunny Mellon, takes us through the Darien, Greenwich and Upper East Side rooms and houses where inky-hued aubergine lacquered walls pair with spring-green-fern fabric; and charming block-print fabrics and grand-scale Gracie wallpaper scenics are the backbone to her patterned rooms. Ashley's Millbrook home is featured; a tour-de-force of Colefax & Fowler, Nobilis, Muriel Brandolini and Braquenie, like you've never seen paired before.

Street cred: under the tutleage of Ralph Lauren for almost a decade, and iconic designer Markham Roberts. 

Decorations: Elle Decor A-List

Published: New York Times, Elle Decor, Veranda, House Beautiful, Coastal Living, Domino.

Book: The Well-Loved House (Rizzoli, September 2021)

Why you can’t miss: Her fighting song is "Beauty to the last detail."

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

Sponsors: Schumacher, PFM, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1 to 3 pm, at Capital Distributing Showroom.

Who: Event creator and designer  Todd Fiscus, Todd Events, and  Keith Smythe Meacham,  Southern hostess and co-founder of Reed Smythe & Company. 

What: Just one of Todd's recent events was the extraordinary wedding of Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton. See the pics here. Keith (Ms.) can spin on a dime and throw the perfect southern cocktails and dinner, much like her friend, the late Julia Reed, co-founders of the wonderful on-line emporium, Reed Smythe & Company. 

Street cred Todd: Todd has designed extraordinary events around the globe, including the Stefani/Shelton nuptials, as well as events for Tom Ford, Salvatore Ferragamo, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, the Dallas Cowboys, amfAR, Audi, and Neiman Marcus.

Street cred Keith: Keith and Julia Reed, who both grew up in the Mississippi Delta, formed Reed Smythe & Company around the idea of having artisans and makers from the south and beyond recreate the things they loved to entertain with but could no longer find. 

Todd, Decorations: Top 35 Event Designers and Top Innovator by special event industry giant, Biz Bash.

Todd, Published: Wall Street Journal, Elle Decor, Town & Country, Southern Living, Gourmet, Vanity Fair, The Robb Report, The London Times.

Keith Published: Elle Decor, AD Pro, Flower magazine

Why you can’t miss: Todd's party tricks, from planning power for your perfect party house, to the new COVID etiquette for intime dinners at home. Keith discusses entertaining lessons she learned from Julia Reed, and the finale for both: the southern way to entertain.

Where: Capital Distributing Showroom, 2910 N. Stemmons Fwy.

Sponsors: Monogram Luxury Appliances, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 4 to 6 pm, at Jan Showers Showroom

Who: Celerie Kemble (NYC) and Jan Showers  (Dallas) 

What: This isn't Celerie Kemble’s first beach romp. A fourth-generation Palm Beacher, Celerie heads up Kemble Interiors in NYC, while her mother, Mimi McMakin, leads Kemble Interiors in Palm Beach (redesigned The Colony Hotel). When she fell madly in love with a beach, Playa Grande in the Dominican Republic, she knew she had found her family’s Hyannis Port. As she describes it, “a wild swath of mountainous jungle … rolling down to pastures of clear, wobbling minty-blue, bounded together by a downy crescent  of golden sand … stole my heart.” How could one not buy it. 

Jan Showers celebrates 25 years of her design business and showroom, and co-chairs Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas for the second year.

Celerie street cred: B.A. fram Harvard, Cum Laude

Jan street cred: traveled to Paris 45 times to shop for her clients and showroom.

Decorations Celerie: AD 100, Elle Decor A-List, House Beautiful Top Designers

Decorations Jan: AD 100

Published Celerie: Architecural Digest, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Veranda, New York Times, Wall Street Journal

Published Jan: Architecural Digest, Elle Decor, Veranda, Luxe, House Beautiful, Southern Home, Atlanta Homes, Traditional Home

Book Celerie: Island Whimsy: Designing a Paradise By the Sea (Rizzoli, September 2021)

Book Jan: Glamorous Living (Abrams)

Celerie collabs: Schumacher, Arteriors, Lane Venture, Maitland-Smith, Mirth, Classical Elements, Merida, Mirror Image

Jan collabs: Kravet, Kyle Bunting Rugs 

Why you can’t miss: Celerie’s childhood home was a rambling deconsecrated Gothic church surrounded by jungle and overlooking Lake Worth.This was far from gilded Palm Beach, and it’s just the way Celerie designs her projects from the Caribbean to Maine — filled with latticework, de Gournay wallpapers, hot Gauguin colors, coquina stone, antique wicker, and Dutch wax prints. Sigh. Jan sign her newest book, Glamorous Living, (Abrams), celebrates 25 years of her her design business and showroom, and co-chairs Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas for the second year.

Where: Jan Showers Showroom, 1308 Slocum

Sponsors: Jan Showers, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Tuesday, September 21, 6 to 8 pm at a private home

Who: Ken Fulk (San Francisco, NYC), Douglas Friedman (Marfa)

What: Ken Fulk, a designer of experiences, creates interiors, high-concept brand identities and spell-binding events. He designs projects around the world, but closer to Dallas he's recently completed the stunning Commodore Perry, an Auberge Resort, and Lutie's restaurant in Austin; with several restaurants and private homes in Dallas are in the works, including the privtae home we are cocktailing in.

Douglas Friedman photographs for amost any rock-star designer you can name, and every design publication. Commerical clients include Rolex, Restoration Hardware, CB2, Langham Hotels, CBS, John Hardy, among others.

Ken street cred: leads a team of 75 designers, architects, image-makers and event specialists in his San Francisco and NYC offices

Douglas street cred: studied anthropology and documentary film making at Occidental College in L.A. then worked in the film industry. Lives in Marfa, designed and built Friedman Ranch in the Chinati desert, with Judd Foundation as a neighbor; raises chickens like his good friend Martha Stewart does. 

Decorations Ken: AD 100, Elle Decor A-List, nominated for a James Beard award for Best Designed Restaurant

Decorations Douglas: 22 tatts.

Ken's book: Ken Fulk's Magical World (Abrams)

Books Douglas photographed: Cooking in Marfa, and contributed to numerous design books  

Douglas's collabs: Kyle Bunting Rugs

Why you can’t miss: Have you seen them?

Where: A private home; by invitation or Texas Design Week Dallas VIP ticket.

Sponsors: The Conservatory, Brian Bolke, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Wednesday, September 22, 10 am to noon, at Elegant Additions Showroom.

Who: Ted Flato, FAIA, Lake | Flato 

What: Since founding Lake|Flato with David Lake in 1984, Ted Flato has received wide acclaim both nationally and internationally for his straight-forward regional designs, which incorporate indigenous building forms and materials that respond to the context of their landscape. By applying sustainable strategies to a wide variety of building types and scales, Ted seeks to conserve energy and natural resources while creating healthy built environments. His projects are always sensitive to the climate – whether along the Gulf Coast, Northeast, west Texas, or southern California. 

Street cred: using local materials and partnering with the best regional craftsmen, Lake|Flato gives birth to buildings that are tactile and modern, environmentally responsible, and authentic yet artfully crafted. 

Decorations: honored with over 300 design awards, including the American Institute of Architects’ Firm of the Year Award in 2004 and 13 Top Ten Green Project Awards from the AIA Committee on the Environment. In 2013, the firm received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and in 2014, Lake|Flato was inducted into the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame. Lake|Flato placed 1st in Architect Magazine’s 2019 Top 50 and was named one of the Ten Most Innovative Architecture Firms in the World by Fast Company.

Published: Book: Lake|Flato Houses: Respecting the Land (Rizzoli, October 2021)

Collabs: Lake|Flato Porch House is a system of modules and connecting porches that link to the outdoors, developed to simplify the design and construction process. Custom-designed rooms are combined with porches and dogruns and modules are designed for efficiency and sustainability, arranged on the site to take advantage of views, breezes, solar orientation, and outdoor spaces. 

Why you can’t miss: Ted's commitment to sustainable environments does not end with his designs – his notoriety has earned him invitations to lecture across the nation on subjects such as healthy buildings and sustainable strategies. 

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

Sponsors: Elegant Additions, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1 to 3 pm, at Laura Lee Clark showroom

Who: Designer John Phifer Marrs 

What: A longtime Dallas interior designer and antiques dealer, John is a collector himself with a roster of clients that have included an ambassador and members of the city’s prominent families. For one client, Marrs designed an attic room with elaborately beamed, cathedral ceilings to showcase a collection of Gothic-inspired 19th-century bronzes. 

Street cred: John designed an imposing pedestal with intricately carved dinosaur claws for a client with a collection of dinosaur bones and skulls.

Decorations: D Home Best Designer 17 years running, past chairman ASID Dallas 

Book: Interiors for Collectors (Gibbs Smith, August 2021)

Why you can’t miss: John's collected wisdom: Replace two second-rate pieces with one first-rate. Display collections in one cabinet or on one wall for the greatest effect. Arrange by shape and size. Don’t let a collection get away from you ... Collecting is one thing and hoarding is another. Moving or rearranging a collection periodically gives a new appreciation for it. Lighting is critical. Love it and light it, or lose it.

Where: Laura Lee Clark, 1515 Slocum.

Sponsors: Laura Lee Clark, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Wednesday, September 22, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek Ballroom.

Who: Christopher Rothko (NYC), son of artist Mark Rothko

Opening remarks Dallas Art Fair founder John Sughrue. Overview David Leslie, executive director of Rothko Chapel.

What: As Houston’s Rothko Chapel turns 50 this fall, the artist’s son, Christopher Rothko, comes to Dallas as part of Texas Design Week, to discuss the legacy of his father, Mark Rothko, and the sensitive restorationof the $30 million transformation of this hallowed monument to art and activism. A half-century ago, patrons Dominique and John de Menil recognized Mark Rothko’s greatness and commissioned a series of paintings for the Rothko Chapel, inaugurating what would become the campus of The Menil Collection. The Chapel today is considered the artist’s magnum opus. 

Street cred: Lives with his father's works.

Decorations: See above.

In situ: Rothko Chapel, The Guggenheim, MOMA, Whitney, Met, Albright-Knox Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum, The Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art, MOCA, The Anderson Collection at Stanford, Tate Modern, Museum Ludwig, Kunstmuseum Basel

Book: Rothko Chapel: An Oasis for Refection (RizzoliElecta, 2021)

Why you can’t miss: Christopher has overseen his father's works for the last 20 years — organizing exhibitions, writing and lecturing about his art, archiving and editing and publishing his written work, supporting scholars and curators in their research, and occasionally curating himself.

Where: Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, 2821 Turtle Creek Blvd.

Sponsors: Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Thursday, September 23, 10 am to Noon, at Wells Abbott Showroom.

Who: Two Legends in Design: de Gournay scion Hannah Cecil Gurney and designer Michael S. Smith

What: Hannah Gurney's father, Claud Cecil Gurney, founded de Gournay in London in 1984, the legendary wallpaper company noted for its centuries-old handpainting techniques and reinterpretations of 18th and 19th-century chinoiserie papers.

Michael S. Smith designed the private quarters of the White House for the Obamas as well as oversaw the refurbishment of some of the State Rooms, from the years 2008 through 2016. He debuts five new handpainted wallpaper designs for de Gournay; and introduces at Well Abbott his extensive Jasper collection of fabric, wall coverings, furniture, and accessories and his Templeton line of fabrics.

Hannah street cred: Intrepid collaborations with luxury titans Chanel and Christian Dior, contemporary brands Aquazzura and Erdem. And she wields a degree in Physics from Bristol University.

Michael street cred: Celebrated for showcasing works by a diverse group of artists and artisans at the White House — both groundbreaking and highly acclaimed.  

Decorations Hannah: Seven global showrooms.

Decorations Michael: Longtime member of the AD100, Designer of the Year by Elle Decor. Appointed in 2010 by President Obama to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and now serves on the Design Advisory Team for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Honored by the Hispanic Society of America with his partner, James Costos, the former ambassador to Spain and Andorra; they received the organization’s 2016 Sorolla Medal in recognition of their extraordinary support of Spanish art and culture. Smith was the 2018 recipient of the distinguished Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Field of Interior Design from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.

Hannah's book: de Gournay: Hand-Painted Interiors (Rizzoli)

Michaels book: Designing History: The Extraordinary Art & Style of the Obama White House, foreword Michelle Obama

Hannah's's collabs: Aquazzura, Erdem, Houghton Hall, The Colony Hotel Palm Beach, Annabelle's London, Michael Smith hand-painted patterns debuting September 2021. 

Michael's collabs: Mansour, Hartmann & Forbes, Brown Jordan, Mirror Image Home, Visual Comfort, Ann Sacks, Samuel & Sons, Kallista

Why you can’t miss: Not since Jacqueline Kennedy's iconic work on the White House has a designer of Michael Smith's stature been commissioned to bring a new design spirit to the mansion. 

Where: Wells Abbott Showroom, Dallas Design Center, 1025 N. Stemmons fwy., Suite 749

Sponsors: Wells Abbott, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Thursday, September 23, 4 to 6 pm, at Roche Bobois

Who: Legendary designer Juan Montoya (NYC)

What: Juan is one of the most acclaimed and prolific interior designers today; he studied architecture in Bogotá and interior design at New York's Parsons School of Design. Following two years of work and study in Paris and Milan, he returned to New York where he founded his interiors firm in 1978, designing resorts and homes around the world.

Street cred: He has a guillotine in his home. 

Decorations: Member of Interior Design Hall of Fame, recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, Doctorate from New York School of Interior Design, Legends Award from Pratt Institute, AD 30 Deans of Design, Grand Master Elle Decor A-List, AD Collector Top 100 (France). 

Book: Designing Paradise: Tropical Interiors by Juan Montoya (Rizzoli)

Published: Architectural Digest, Departures, Wall Street Journal, Elle Decor, Interior Design Magazine, Veranda

 Why you can’t miss: Juan has designed all manner of modern interiors—from sprawling, luxurious Park Avenue penthouses to Parisian pieds-à-terre, Montana fishing lodges to rambling private estates (and their gardens), movie studios to resort residences that occupy ravishing sites in Punta Mita, Casa de Compo, Miami Beach, Fisher Island, and other idyllic oceanfront locales. As much as these homes are escapist fantasias, they are also inextricably rooted to their geographic locations and their regional cultures, many utilizing intricate beadwork, global textiles, and thatched roofs.

Where: Roche Bobois, 1707 Oak Lawn

Sponsors: Roche Bobois, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dalla

Date: Thursday, September 23, 7 to 9 pm at Garde showroom

Who: Robert Stilin, NYC, Hamptons

What: Stilin often layers his interiors with noteworthy contemporary artworks, as well as postwar European and American furniture.

Street cred: An avid collector of contemporary art — he serves on the Director’s Council at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Decorations: AD 100, Elle Decor A-List 

Book: Robert Stilin Interiors (Vendome Press) 

Published: Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, W, Galerie, Hamptons Cottages, among others, and in the books Design in the Hamptons and The Big Book of the Hamptons

Why you can’t miss: Mayer Rus, who edited the book, is a huge fan, writing in the introduction that Stilin “approaches his work with a distinctly curatorial eye, assembling furniture and objects of far-flung periods and pedigrees, high and low, refined and rustic ... The designer’s talent, however, is not simply a matter of curatorial prowess. Stilin arranges the elements of his craft more like players in a drama than mere objects in space.”

Where: Garde, 1305 Wycliff, Suite 160

Sponsors: Garde, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

Date: Friday, September 24, Noon to 2 pm, at The Shade Store.

Who: Martyn Lawrence Bullard (L.A.)

What: One of the world's most celebrated, and dreamiest designers, Martyn has designed homes for Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Cher, Ellen Pompeo, Tommy Hilfiger and Eva Mendes, along with the iconic Colony Palms Hotel, Prospect in Hollywood, The Sands, Chateau Gutsch in Lucerne and Four Seasons Residences in L.A. 

Street cred: Kardashian, Kardashian, Kardashian

Decorations: AD 100, Elle Decor A-List, starred in Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators

Published: In over 4,000 publications including you name it.

Book: Martyn Lawrence Bullard: Design & Decooration (Rizzoli)

Collabs: The Shade Store, The Rug Company, Schumacher, Christofle, Hailand Limoges, Perennials, Cole & Sons, Ann Sacks, Corbett Lighting, Harbour Outdoor, Daum and Frontgate and he designs his own lines of fabrics, wallpaper and furniture.

Why you can’t miss: His Hollywood Hills home, Villa Swanson, once belonged to Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and William Faulkner. His 1963 modernist Palm Springs hideaway was designed by James McNaughton, a Hollywood set designer, and purportedly owned by Hugh Hefner in the 70s, then  postively owned by Roger Moore.

Where: The Shade Store, 4516 McKinney Street. 

Sponsors: The Shade Store, Dunhill Partners, Dallas Design District, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Monogram, Virgin Hotels Dallas

The Annual PaperCity Design Awards Celebration of Winning Projects.

By invitation and for Texas Design Week VIP Ticket Holders. RSVP required. 

6:30 Coctails

7:15 Presentation honoring Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, for making a difference in the Dallas design community

7:30 Presentation of the PaperCity Design Awards by Alessandra Branca

Where: Virgin Hotels Dallas Ballroom

 Thank you to our Design Awards Sponsors: Dallas Design District, Dunhill Partners, New Orleans Auction Galleries, Virgin Hotels Dallas, Monogram, Baccarat, OKA