Looking Back: Texas Design Week with Dan Houchard

What: The Importance of Collaboration and Designing Green — Designer, Architect, Builder, and Landscape Designer

Where: The Luxury Bed Collection

Featuring: Doniphan Moore/designer; Christy Blumenfeld/architect, Blume Architecture; Matt Cain/president, Tatum Brown Custom Homes; Dan Houchard/landscape designer, From the Ground Up; Javier Burkle/designer, Burkle Creative; and moderator Mary Pat Wallace/founder of The Luxury Bed Collection

High Point: The panel on the dais in the showroom filled with dreamy mattresses were there to share stories of successes and challenges when working as a team on a project. The crew I might dub the “Suit Squad” (Mr. Moore was in navy Thom Browne, Mr. Burkle in brown tweed, and Mr. Houchard and Mr. Cain in natty blue) agreed that successful collaboration happens when all involved realize it’s an ensemble cast — no marquee stars.

Spotted: Lloyd Princeton walked in with his four-legged accessory, his Shiba Inu, Keiko Princeton; Bailey Polkinghorn, Allison Seidler, Joseph Aldrich, Adam Blumenfeld, Dan and Maura Houchard, Grant Jackson, John Bobbitt, Katherine Nicholson, Jason Needleman, Madison Mathews, Carli Boone, Tracy Hardenburg, Meredith Needleman, Sydney Warrington, Rebekah Leal, Sadie Baker, Caroline McFarland, Nicole Green and Liz Jensen.

— Billy Fong

[ Original Content and images via Paper City Dallas ]