Texas Design Week is comprised of a series of Design + Art Talks by noted interior designers, architects, artists, product designers, and visionaries, with a full program of book signings, pop-up shops, salon talks, and cocktail events. Texas Design Week Houston occurs in Spring and Texas Design Week Dallas in Fall.

This is a biannual event designed to advance the creative professions with education, professional fellowship, growth opportunity, and entertainment.

= MARCH 25 THROUGH MARCH 29 =

There are 3 types of tickets, each one with different privileges:

VIP TXDW Reserved-Seat Ticket: Includes Design In Bloom Ticket — $400

What you get:
Five days of salons talks, book signings, exhibitions, cocktails, and product launches.
Includes a VIP Design In Bloom ticket and a reserved seat at the PaperCity Design Awards.

VIP TXDW Reserved-Seat Ticket (does not include Design In Bloom) — $275

What you get:
Five days of salons talks, book signings, exhibitions, cocktails, and product launches.
Includes reserved seat at the PaperCity Design Awards. Does not include access to Design in Bloom.

TXDW Non-Reserved Seat General Admission — $100

What you get:
Five days of salons talks, book signings, exhibitions, cocktails, and product launches.

Who you’ll see at Texas Design Week Houston:

// BUNNY WILLIAMS

TXDW | Design in Bloom Speaker and Design Awards Judge

For Three Decades Bunny Williams Interior Design has built a legacy of superior design. Renowned for balancing refined beauty with welcoming livable appeal, the firm is widely recognized and championed as an industry leader. Rooted in long-lasting and valued relationships with clientele, Williams’ ability to mentor yet another generation of talented designers firmly establishes her firm as one of the most important voices in the evolving history of design.

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// HUTTON WILKINSON

TXDW Speaker and Master of Ceremonies of the Design Awards

Hutton Wilkinson was born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in the architectural offices of his father and grandfather. As the business partner to the late decorator Tony Duquette, Wilkinson became the owner, creative director, and president of Tony Duquette Inc. when Duquette died in 1999. .Hutton continues designing residential and commercial interiors internationally which have been featured, along with his one-of-a-kind precious jewelry, in shelter magazines and fashion magazines including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Town & Country, Elle, Veranda, W, New York Times, Paper City as well as publications in Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Great Britain and South America.

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// JAMIE DRAKE AND CALEB ANDERSON

TXDW Speakers and Design Awards Judges

Drake/Anderson, led by award-winning designers Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson, creates sophisticated interiors that are luxurious, refined and always have a touch of the unexpected. Dynamic eclecticism is the hallmark of the New York-based firm, whose work forges a perfect balance between timelessness and today. At the heart of every project is the belief that the best décor expresses personality and place. The resulting environments are inviting, delightful, and above all resolutely livable.

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// JEAN-LOUIS DENIOT

TXDW Speaker

Jean-Louis Deniot has long been in the business of creating atmospheres. One of design scene’s leading names, the Paris-based designer is known for his stunning interiors that brilliantly combined history with contemporary flourishes.

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// MARTINA MONDADORI SARTOGO

TXDW Speaker, Founder of Cabana Magazine

As the founder and Editor in Chief of Cabana magazine — the world’s most luxurious interiors magazine — Martina Mondadori Sartogo has formed a network of designers, artists, photographers and writers to bring her vision to life. Influenced by Renzo Mongiardino throughout her career, Mondadori Sartogo has immortalised Mondiardino’s creations in her book Renzo Mongiardino: A Painterly Vision.

// DEAN RHYS-MORGAN

TXDW Appearance, Exhibition, Book Signing

After completing a degree in costume design at Wimbledon College of Art, Dean Rhys Morgan earned his fashion stripes working alongside legendary fashion stylist Isabella Blow at Tatler magazine. Contributing regularly to The Telegraph and the Sunday Times, he worked as a fashion and interiors journalist before establishing his own eponymous online gallery specializing in mid-century fashion and interior illustration. He currently divides his time between, London, New York and Los Angeles.

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// KATY B. OLSON

TXDW Appearance and Moderator

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// PALOMA CONTRERAS

TXDW Appearance and Book Signing

Paloma Contreras is an award-winning interior decorator, tastemaker, and design influencer based in Houston, Texas. Paloma’s design sensibility is a modern take on traditional style– gravitating towards classic silhouettes and timeless pieces paired with a touch of glamour and an infusion of color. Paloma has honed her distinct eye for style through a decade in the design industry and a lifetime of appreciating beauty in all of its various forms.

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// SHAUN SMITH

TXDW Appearance

The dapper designer runs his interiors business, lifestyle brand, and shop on a historic block of Magazine Street in New Orleans. Currently designing actress Annie Potts’ home in New Orleans (“I was obsessed with “Designing Women” as a child”), Smith also has a line of cocktail and occasional tables coming out this summer. “My job is all about knowledge and finding the best for my clients, and my projects,” he says.

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// CARL DELLATORE

TXDW Moderator

After completing a degree in fine arts, Pennsylvania native Carl Dellatore moved to New York City in the summer of 1983. For more than a decade he designed patterned textiles for the apparel industry before opening D&F Workroom, a Chelsea-based studio producing custom upholstery and window treatments for the interior design industry. In addition, he soon established CJ Dellatore Textile, his own line of furnishing fabrics.

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// LESLIE CAROTHERS

TXDW Education Day Speaker

Leslie is in the interior design business for 38 years, and have owned The Kaleidoscope Partnership for 17 years. She pioneered the use of social media marketing within the furniture and interior design industry 10 years ago, and have been blessed to work on over 40 major campaigns for furniture brands, (major and emerging, both mfg. and retailer, ) tradeshows, publishers, software brands, and interior designer brands, since that time.

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// ARIELLA CHEZAR

Design In Bloom Speaker

Ariella Chezar is the author of Flowers for the Table and the flower workshop, and a Master floral designer whose work has graced the covers and pages of Martha Stewart Living, O Magazine, Smitten, Sunset, Garden Design, Better Homes and Gardens, Domino, Real Simple, Sweet Paul and many more. Ariella teaches workshops all over the world and has also designed flower arrangements for the White House. In the fall of 2017, Ariella came onto the FlowerSchool New York staff as Artistic Director and Master Designer.

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// JEFFREY DUNGAN

Design In Bloom Speaker

Dungan’s creative work can been seen in his native South, and throughout North and Central America. Recognized for his clean and modern approach to traditional vernaculars and classical architecture, he is a fresh voice in the industry. In addition to his architecture, he brings passion, depth and an endless enthusiasm for the people he works with.

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// MARGOT SHAW

Founder Flower Magazine, Design In Bloom Speaker

Margot, the editor in chief of flower magazine, attributes her knowledge and appreciation of floral design to her former boss and mentor Sybil Sylvester, an esteemed florist in Birmingham, Alabama who has taught Margot the (garden) tools of the trade for the past four years. While working for Sybil in her downtown shop, Margot quickly learned to cultivate her aesthetic of floral design and nurture her appreciation for their healing properties.

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// P. ALLEN SMITH

Design In Bloom Speaker

P. Allen Smith has a passion for American style. Whether its old-school flocks, eating local or green innovations, Smith combines them all into the farm he designed at Moss Mountain, a place grounded in historic precedent, inspired by regional influences and guided by modern day innovation, as he writes a new chapter in the evolution of the classic American farm.

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