Texas Design Week Houston — Schedule and Ticket Sales are Live — Here’s Who You’ll See

Plus, Design Awards Call For Entries

BY Staff Report // 04.07.22

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Hubert de Givenchy’s Chateau du Jonchet in the Loire Valley.

Stephen Stills discusses Hubert de Givenchy's lifetime of collecting, Thursday, April 28 at Moxie.

Salon sur Cour at Hubert de Givenchy's Paris home, Hôtel d’Orrouer

Charles Cator, Christie’s deputy chairman, London, discusses the extraordinary auction of furniture and art

Grand Salon at Hubert de Givenchy's Chateau du Jonchet in the Loire Valley

Bunny Mellon Style, Illustrated talk, cocktails and book signing at The Sarofim House.

Inside the central pavilion of Bunny Mellon’s formal greenhouse at Oak Spring with Fernand Renard trompe l’oeil paintings.

Peter Pennoyer's book Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art, illustrated talk at Decorative Center Houston, reception and book signing at Schumacher showroom.

Flanking the door into the living room are two Cibachrome prints by Mike Kelley, "John Glenn" and "Bigfoot" (2001). In the niche above is Mamma Andersson’s "Hangman" (2014). In the foreground, a rosewood, shagreen, and ebony table- bibliothèque tournante (ca. 1920) by Clément Rousseau is flanked by a pair of Royère Polar Bear chairs fabricated by August Studios.

Dragons & Pagodas: A Celebration of Chinoiserie; illustrated talk, cocktails and book signing at FOUND

On the second floor of the Royal Pavilion, a double lobby links all the guest bedrooms. The faux-bamboo fretwork pattern on the vivid blue walls was inspired by the imported bamboo furniture.

India Hicks’ entertaining advice: Check your tide charts before hosting on the beach. Meet India at OKA for cocktails, where she presents a very entertaining talk followed by a book signing

Highland House designed by Edmund Hollander

William Norwich illustrated talk — the greatest 400 rooms of the century, cocktails and book signing at Christopher Martin gallery.

Philip Gorrivan speaks on a panel, The Art of Collaboration, at Roche Bobois.

A living room designed by Philip Gorrivan

Through a Designer's Eye by Matthew Patrick Smyth; illustrated talk at Decorative Center Houston, reception and book signing at Arsin Rug Gallery.

French art deco sconces with verdigris-finished frames and gilt Egyptian-influenced details, and Louis XVI–style photophores on the mantel add to the layering of history in the room.

Bill Curtis, Curtis & Windham Architects, speaks on a panel, The Art of Collaboration, at Roche Bobois.

Madeline Stuart Illustrated talk, afternoon wine and book signing at Elegant Additions.

In a house in Jackson Wyoming, the living room is essentially a glass-enclosed tree house that captures exceptional views of the Snake River and the Teton Range in the distance. The chairs in the foreground are vintage T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, and the custom area rug is made up of squares of sheared fur.

Filipa de Abreu’s Lisbon dining room from the book A Loving Table: Creating Memorable Gatherings by Kimberly Schlegel Whitman and Shelley Johnstone Paschke; illustrated talk and book signing at Longoria

Kitchen Confidential: Chef Chris Williams, Lucille's Hospitality Group, speaks at a panel discussion Monday, 1 pm at CookChill.

Chef Robert Del Grande Chef, The Annie Cafe & Bar, will speak at Kitchen Confidential: How to Design the Perfect Kitchen. At CookChill hosted by Monogram.

Gin Braverman, Gin Design Group, will speak at Kitchen Confidential: How to Design the Perfect Kitchen. At CookChill hosted by Monogram.

Hubert de Givenchy’s Chateau du Jonchet in the Loire Valley.

Flanking the door into the living room are two Cibachrome prints by Mike Kelley, "John Glenn" and "Bigfoot" (2001). In the niche above is Mamma Andersson’s "Hangman" (2014). In the foreground, a rosewood, shagreen, and ebony table- bibliothèque tournante (ca. 1920) by Clément Rousseau is flanked by a pair of Royère Polar Bear chairs fabricated by August Studios.

In a house in Jackson Wyoming, the living room is essentially a glass-enclosed tree house that captures exceptional views of the Snake River and the Teton Range in the distance. The chairs in the foreground are vintage T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, and the custom area rug is made up of squares of sheared fur.

Texas Design Week Houston is set for Monday through Friday, April 25 through April 29 — a week-long celebration of design with panel discussions, salon talks, book signings, product launches, and cocktails with some of the most recognized names in the design world.

Highlights include an overview of the sale of the century from a lifetime of collecting, Hubert de Givenchy‘s rare trove of furnishings, objects and art from his two iconic homes: Hotel d’Orrouer in Paris and Chateau du Jonchet in the Loire Valley. In Houston to discuss this epic collection up for auction in June in Paris is designer Stephen Sills and Christie’s International deputy chairman Charles Cator, in an illustrated talk and cocktails at Moxie.

Bunny Mellon, one of the most unintentionally influential women of 20th-century design, is the focus of an illustrated talk with Thomas Lloyd, Bunny Mellon’s grandson, and Bryan Huffman, friend and confidante to Mellon for decades, who together discuss Ms. Mellon’s legendary homes, gardens, and life, and sign their stunning book, Bunny Mellon Style (Gibbs-Smith), co-hosted by New Orleans Auction Galleries and ICAA, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, at The Sarofim House.

Architect Peter Pennoyer, co-hosted by ICAA — Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, will discuss and sign his book Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art (Vendome), which chronicles a visionary house and sculpture garden inspired by Czech Cubism, designed and decorated by Peter Pennoyer Architects — a complete work of art encompassing architecture, interior design, furnishings, and collections of decorative and contemporary art — at Decorative Center Houston and Schumacher showroom.

The charming Aldous Bertram, artist, illustrator and interior designer, received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University specializing in the influence of China on English garden design and architecture. Thus, his confection of a book, Dragons & Pagodas, a Celebration of Chinoiserie (Vendome), which he will sign at FOUND.

India Hicks, daughter of legendary designer David Hicks and granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten, discusses growing up Hicks and signs her new book, India Hicks: An Entertaining Story (Rizzoli), at OKA.

Outdoor Dining with Bering's

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Others on the schedule: Matthew Patrick Smyth; Edmund Hollander, Hollander Design | Landscape Architects; Bill Curtis, Curtis & Windham Architects; Philip Gorrivan; William Norwich, discussing the 400 most important rooms of the century; Madeline Stuart; Kitchen Confidential with Chef Chris Williams, Chef Robert Del Grande, and Gin Braverman and Courtnay Tartt Elias; and Kimberly Schlegel Whitman and Shelley Johnstone Paschke.

VIP Reserved-Seat tickets are $250 and include reserved seating for all events for five days, as well as reserved seating at the PaperCity Design Awards, Sunday, April 24. General admission tickets are $100 (non-reserved seating) for all five days. All TXDW events are ticketed.

To purchase tickets and for the complete Texas Design Week Houston schedule, day by day, go to TexasDesignWeek.com. For sponsorship opportunities and general inquiries, contact events@texasdesignweek.com.

PaperCity Design Awards Call for Entries

Deadline for entering the 2022 Houston PaperCity Design Awards is midnight Friday, April 8.

The PaperCity Design Awards is open to all Houston-area interior designers, architects, landscape designers, and product and textile designers, and recognizes outstanding interior design; interior architecture; retail, restaurant, and gallery design; landscape design; historical preservation; and furniture, product, and textile design, along with other categories.

The awards ceremony to announce the winning projects is Sunday, April 24 at The Post Oak Hotel Grand Ballroom. Master of ceremonies is Alessandra Branca.

Judges for this year’s awards are Stephen Sills, NYC; Victoria Hagan, NYC, Palm Beach; Young Huh, NYC; and Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson, Drake/Anderson, NYC.

Winning entries will be published in the October 2022 PaperCity Decoration + Art issue (50,000 issues), and online at PaperCityMag.com, with 5.5-plus million monthly page views.

Explore Houston PaperCity Design Awards categories and submit your entries at papercitymag.com/designawards. Entry period closes Friday, April 8, at midnight.