It looks like Vieux’s owner
Marty Bratton, creative director Benton Lackey, manager DeWayne Formby have
settled into their spanking new space at Timmons and West Alabama quite nicely.
If you haven’t checked out their 7,000 square foot antiques and home
accessories atelier yet, run there as quickly as you can. Twice the size of
their former warehouse space in the Heights, design minds like Randy Powers and
Chandos Dodson have already descended holding fetching pieces for their roster
of clients. I loved this clever vignette at the entrance (pictured) replete
with a serious gilded French settee covered with a splashy, bold
black-and-white print fabric, but most especially the chrome stool covered in
lambs hair ($965) in front of it. It’s fun, unexpected pieces like those that
keep me circling back to check out the Vieux. Vieux, 3701 West Alabama St., 713.626.9500,
vieuxinteriors.com.