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President Bush Buys a Post-White House House
As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to move into the White House, President Bush has picked up some new property for his life post-1600 Penn, when he leaves office in January. George and Laura have ponied up for a 8,501-square-foot, four-bedroom, ranch-style home in Preston Hollow, a wealthy North Dallas neighborhood where they lived before he became governor of Texas in 1995. I guess George is saying goodbye to the Georgian style.Preston Hollow counts some other prominent residents, including Dallas mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, former Dallas Cowboys Roger Staubach and Chuck Howley, and billionaire investors Harold Simmons and T.
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Coveted Crib: 90 Years and Still Stylin'
At 90 years of age, Dallas socialite Betty ("Boop") Blake and arbiter of art is redecorating (reupholstering) with longtime friend and design collaborator Joseph Minton. Her mid-century modern mid-rise apartment lends itself as a showcase for notable works of art by Josef Albers, Joan Miró, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, and others, as well as for perhaps more notable pieces designed by another old friend of hers, legendary British interior designer Syrie Maugham. To hear more about and see photos of Blake's home, read more
Coveted Crib: Judy Aldridge's Textured Texas Home
It's no secret that fashion designer Judy Aldridge (mother of Jane, the high school "It" girl fashion blogger, aka Sea of Shoes) has a passion for design — take a gander at her blog, Atlantis Home. Each ensemble she puts on is more innovative than the next. So, it comes as no surprise that her home is equally chic.
Designer Spotlight: Gary Spain
San Francisco-based interior stylist Gary Spain creates eclectic interiors that take inspiration from unexpected sources. Indeed, in the current issue of California Home+Design, he notes that, "When I’m on a project, I’m really inspired by everything I see."
Spain's interiors mix high- and low-end finds, global influences, and showstopper new and vintage pieces.
Casa Verde: Texas Approves Wind Power Superhighway
According to an Associated Press article, Texas has preliminarily approved "a $4.9 billion plan to build new transmission lines to carry wind-generated electricity from gusty West Texas to urban areas like Dallas," and "build a slew of new turbines." The Lone Star State already stands as the nation's leader in wind power, generating about 5,000 megawatts with the nearly 4,000 wind turbines already in place, but a lack of transmission lines has prevented that energy from being used. The new plan will mobilize about 18,000 megawatts, "enough to power more than 4 million Texas homes."
This Just In: Bombay Company to Close All US Stores
According to Dallas News, the home furnishing stores of the Bombany Company, Inc. are going out of business across the US The retailer filed for bankruptcy in September and plans to sell its remaining US inventory to Gordon Bros. Retail Partners and Hilco Merchant Resources, who will shut down the U.S.
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