TEENY TINY BATH?

Before I run out to Stanley Korshak’s 21st birthday bash (hope there will be cake!), here are some tips from the Kohler Company on decorating when all you have gotten out of life is a small bathroom… let it be a pretty bathroom…. pretty. That’s a word Carleton Varney said we don’t hear enough of anymore when it comes to interior design.

MELETIO LIGHTS

Meletio has been named as a finalist for lighting showroom for the ARTS Award to be awarded at a gala at the Dallas Market Center in January. This is the Home Decorative Accessories Industry’s highest award. And, the Dallas Market Center just happens to be the world’s largest wholesale merchandise resource.

ROUND TWO: BIGGER AND BETTER

We got a taste of luxury retailer back in 1990, but it closed in 1997. Now (rejoice!) an 88,000-square-foot Barneys–the third largest behind New York City and Beverly Hills–is opening at the end of September as part of the colossal NorthPark expansion ($200 million).

HOUSE SALES = DEPRESSING

Late August always seems to bring depressing financial news… sure you’ve heard that new home sales are down nationally… and if new homes aren’t selling, existing homes aren’t selling… but here’s a bit o’ sunshine: Welcome Wagon! Dallas is listed as one of the few major cities in the USA to where people are actually moving…: 657,957 newcomers according to CNN.COM

WATERING IN DALLAS - MEA CULPA

I swear sometimes I am dyslexic. This from a reader:

“Candy… If you are actually in Dallas, you have it all wrong re: ‘in North Dallas we cannot water before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m.’

In Dallas, you cannot water with a sprinkler or irrigation system during the day, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., from June 1 through Sept. 30. You can, during that 10-6 period, use a soaker hose or hand water.”

That’s what I meant to say — NO WATERING AFTER 10:00 A.M., BEFORE 6:00 P.M. — that was a test to see if you are all awake!

DORNBRACT’S NEW MAGALOGUE

Dornbract, the German manufacturer of luxury kitchen and bath fixtures, has just mailed out a set of magalogues — a combined magazine and catalogue — on the topic of water. Andreas Dornbract has commissioned writers and artists and photographers to think about water in a spiritual and emotional way. I like the look of it — a sort of Art Forum meets Elle Decoration. But the whole idea seems a bit sinister. When you’ve got Marc Quinn’s surrealist photographs interspersed with beauty shots of Dornbracht products, and Tom Ford musing about art on the same page as the factual details of Dornbracht sinks and faucets, what really are you reading? A magazine? A catalogue? Propaganda? Anything worthwhile? Makes me rethink the whole idea of magazines in general…