Unveiled moments ago at Kensington Palace, here's the smallest, lightest, greenest Range Rover in the 40-year history of the model. It's called Evoque, and it will be here in the fall of 2011. It's little, yes, but there's something terribly intriguing about its look — rather like a Japanime'd version of the original Range Rover of 1970. No word yet on price or specification, but take a loo...

From the "Who Knew?" file: The witty Jim Williamson, he of the furnishings/fabrics/accessories showroom I.D. Collection, just e-mailed me YouTube footage of something so surreal, I couldn't wait to share it. It's Bette Davis (!) in "The Decorator," a TV pilot for a series that never got picked up, produced in 1964 by none other than Aaron Spelling. You read that right: Bette. Decorator. Aaron. Sa...

He grew up in Midland, went to Harvard, then made a fortune in New York. Now he's back in Texas, ensconced in a bachelor pad at The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas. And ladies, he's looking for The One. Meet Grant Calloway — or rather, Grant Calloway's apartment. I'm just back from the first look at it, courtesy of the dapper whirlwind known as Carleton Varney, the inimitable decorat...

A moment of sheer beauty happened in my e-mail just now. Abby and Wlodek Malowanczyk of Collage 20th Century Classics sent a newsletter about some new pieces, and look what was in it: a stunner of a table by the Hungarian architect Paul Laszlo. I'm typically more tube-and-sling — my place is crammed with Corbusier and Mies — but this is classicism that even I can handle. I'd be in goo...

One of our favorite gents — Texas modernist architect Frank Welch — has turned tour guide, a la 1953. Welch shows us his Paris via his new site, frankwelchphotography.com, where archival prints of his candid, funny, gorgeous, spontaneous photographs can be had. Inspired by the great Cartier-Bresson, Welch poked around Paris all that year, new Leica in hand, and brought back un enfer o...

Tonight sometime between 6 and 8 pm, come to Saint Ann Court, the new office development from Harwood International. Why tweak your dinner plans? To learn about Arzu Studio Hope, a "social business enterprise" that helps women worldwide. You'll see gorgeous rugs — distributed in Dallas by BKM Total Office of Texas — handmade by Afghan women weavers, and you'll hear why Arzu founder an...

My little design-y heart leapt when I opened the May Elle Decor: There, on page 189, was the "chic prison cell" (as she calls it) apartment of my design-y neighbor Alice Cottrell. You may know Alice from her incredible interior for the restaurant Local in Deep Ellum (one of the best in town, I think) or for the sexy, modern residential spaces that she and design partner Rick Rozas concoct for som...

As Auntie Mame would say, grab the maps and the martinis (we'll add "and moving boxes and packing tape"). Briggs-Freeman is opening almost 200 homes (!) this weekend, an extravaganza that will make even the most jaded house-hunter jump for joy. We're talking estates, town houses, Devonshire, Bluffview, you name it — all open for your perusal on Saturday and Sunday. Will it be the chateau on...

One word: Wow. We are duly impressed with the panel that the Dallas Architecture Forum has assembled for this Saturday's symposium on contemporary design: L.A. artist Walead Beshty (the Guggenheim and the V&A keep his works in their permanent collections); award-winning architects Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston; A-list architectural developer James Carpenter (he's worked on the Rachofsky House,...

You've heard of hen's teeth? This tops that. John Bobbitt, decorator extraordinaire, is thinning his inventory. But don't think common "sale": This, dear readers, is your chance to acquire some very fine pieces, everything from a cocktail table made from an 18th-century clock drive to a passel of matching Fortuny hanging sconces (those at $325 each) to a Louis-style 19th-century silver gilt bronz...