Bunny Williams At The Home of Peggy and Carl Sewell

The breathtakingly beautiful home of Carl and Peggy Sewell, to benefit Art In Bloom last evening. I am still on a high from meeting Ms. Williams, a New Yorker who told me everything’s getting torn down in Manhattan, just like here. And I’m on a high from being in the Sewell home, its proximity to Prather Creek in the honeypot of Highland Park, terracing and gardens. Pink tulips and the white azaleas just make this the time of the year when living in Dallas is the bees knees. I digress: architect Wilson Fuqua was at the event last night, and he told me some interesting things about the Sewell’s circa 1915 Hal Thompson masterpiece:

Wilson helped Peggy and Carl when they bought the home 14 years ago– Peggy took New York designer Mario Buatta through — but get this — the home’s architect prior to Wilson and the Sewell’s was a very contemporary-loving high profile architect in town. If you can picture this, there was a white enamel Herman Miller table in the dining room among other mod and mid-century modern pieces in the home. Thankfully, no one touched the latticed sun porch which is among the finest sun-porches in the southern U.S.

The Crespis lived at 4726 Drexel Drive for awhile while their estate on Walnut Hill Lane was being built. The Crespi Estate is now, of course, the home of Tom and Cynda Hicks and family.