He traded a lab coat for landscape design — and never looked back. (Toying with destiny, case #4468.) Meet Jason Pautz, ex-scientist, masterful grower of all things green and gorgeous and, yes, male model. Was that part obvious?  What would you normally wear to work in?” I ask landscape designer Jason ...

Three locations? 100 degrees? No sweat, when you're surrounded by gorgeous things. Click on "launch slideshow," above, for a peek at what editor Rob Brinkley saw the day photographer Adam Fish shot the star of Pautz Landscapes...  For the full story on model-turned-landscape-designer Jason Pautz, click here.  

People love their houses for all kinds of reasons. For interior designer Hilary Crady, it all began with sentimentality. The original owner, an architect at the Houston firm Northrop and Northrop, built this 1,600-square-foot mid-century modern house in the 1950s for his own family, but when he and his wife divorced a year ...

Get ready for an encounter with history. This fall, one of America’s most heralded decorative arts house museums gets a grand redux that unites the present with the past when Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the former home of Houston philanthropist Miss Ima Hogg, unfurls its new contemporary building. At 18,000 squ...

When 150 venerable antiques dealers set up shop in Houston for three days of show and sale, then it must be time for the Houston Antiques Dealers Association Show & Sale. HADA is the nation’s oldest antiques association, and this year’s sale is amped up. Thursday, September 16, is the coveted preview cocktai...