Brooke Hortenstine

Dallas co-editor / social editor

As PaperCity’s Dallas co-editor and social editor, Brooke Hortenstine chronicles the city’s roller-coaster social scene and pens on dining, travel, beauty, fashion, home décor and all things stylish. Before her son Rollins arrived in June 2009, her passport was stamped in Mexico, London and Marrakech — and that was all in one year. Now this 10-year veteran of PaperCity stays closer to her nest, stocking up on fine stationery and collectible furnishings (she’s hot on a pair of Billy Baldwin benches), and supporting Dallas’ charitable community through Cattle Baron’s Ball, The Salvation Army and the Visiting Nurse Association. Her writing has also been featured in InStyle and the Four Seasons Magazine.

 

Mar252010

Luxury on a Roll

By Brooke HortenstineMarch 25, 2010 Comments: 0

Normal 0 0 1 99 565 4 1 693 11.518 0 0 0 That’s not just any nomadic wanderer’s Airstream that's currently parked in front of the Linen Boutique on Lovers Lane. If you are brave enough to step inside, you will see that it belongs to the family behind our locally-based Peacock Alley linens ...

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Mar012010

This week’s communiqué from my dear friend Billy Fong — DMA’s former annual program director, now Atlanta High Museum of Art’s membership manager, and composer of the most marvelous, style-drenched e-mails: Dearest B, So bored and need a task.  I have been working on a variety of projects — new clothing line with a friend, a screenplay — bu...

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Feb022010

Normal 0 0 1 138 790 6 1 970 11.518 0 0 0 He tends to a pair of Kessler Park Shelties who spin when they see a bus drive by, walks a Lakewood Yorkie who prefers to balance on street curbs, and checks on a Highland Park cat who greets him by pawing his left shoe. There’s someone out there who pays as much attention to your pet’s idiosyncra...

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Dec152009

Le Carmen at Le Cirque

By Brooke HortenstineDecember 15, 2009 Comments: 0

Besides finds from Bergdorf’s, my mother brought home something else so very Gotham City from her recent trip to NYC — this snapshot of she and mega-model Carmen Dell’Orefice. Peggy Hollis (a.k.a. mom) and her Houstonian friends Anne Richardson, Paula Robinson, Lillie Byrd Lewis, Mary Ellen Verbois, Missa Sutton, Kathleen Yates and Pat Hindsley dined at Le Cirque alongside ...

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Nov302009

Neiman Marcus Downtown’s design team, led by creative genius Ignaz Gorischek, asked tikes at the East Dallas St. Philip’s School & Community Center and Reconciliation Outreach to dream up stories about future energy sources for the famed NM holiday windows. Six tales were chosen for “Innovations and Energy,” but with a literal twist: For the first time ever, children 4...

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Nov302009

Pillow Talk

By Brooke HortenstineNovember 30, 2009 Comments: 0

Loveseats and windows, rejoice. I have finally found a convenient and quick seamstress — much to the dismay of her unmentionable top designer clients — for custom pillows, draperies, duvets, shower curtains, chair cushions and more. Linda Alvarado of Linda Jane Designs has set up a shop in her garage, one house off the corner of Cedar Springs and Hedgerow, and whipped up four, custom ...

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