Looking for a great Holiday gift? Besides one of our shirts of course, you might want to check this new coffee table book titled Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera. If you are a loyal follower of this blog you may have noticed that I am a huge fan of his work; I like to post his [...]

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Inspired by the live oaks of Austin’s Zilker Park, Texan artist Jennifer Deutrom has created a series of intricate drawings based on the trees amazing gnarled trunks and branches. This show at Domy Books titled “Twisted Growth” celebrates these noble trees ability to survive in Austins harsh climate. Opening this Saturday, December 5th from 7-9pm, [...]

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Purchased in the sixties for just $50 this Olivetti Lettera 32 Typewriter was the tool used to create some of the best Texas fiction of all time. Used by author Cormac McCarthy, this simple typewriter was what he used to write a dozen novels, screenplays, plays, short stories and more. The legendary author of such [...]

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The Wallpaper City Guides are a really fantastic, very well edited set of guidebooks to almost 80 cities around the world. Focusing on all the places that a design conscious traveler would be interested in, the latest city guide to be added to the series is Houston. These books are all worth checking out- not [...]

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From scripture, the word Gilead refers to “hill of testimony” or “mound of witness” a mountainous region east of the river of Jordan, in the present day Kingdom of Jordan.  Gilead is also the name of the second novel by acclaimed author, Marilynne Robinson.  The novel was the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for [...]

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The final installment of the Duane Moore series of books, Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry, was released yesterday August, 11th.  This series, which was started back in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, revisits all his beloved characters back in the fictitious town of Thalia, Texas.  In this supposed final book from McMurtry, Duane Moore [...]

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“I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.” He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their [...]

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Sometimes it takes getting out of your old neighborhood and shaking up life to see things in a new and different way.  Last week my wife and I escaped the Houston heat for a few days to the cooler climate of San Francisco.  While visiting Sausalito, we happened upon a small bookstore called Habitat Books.  The owner, [...]

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Since we are on the subject of books this week,  I’d like to bring your attention to another volume coming this winter (Feb. 2010) that looks to be great addition to your library.  Yale University Press along with the Menil Collection are publishing “Art and Activism, Projects of John and Dominique de Menil” edited by Laureen Schipsi.  [...]

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The Council of Fashion Designers of America and the publisher Assouline are coming out with a new book this September called “American Fashion Menswear“.  The book will feature sections devoted to work clothes, prep style, sportswear, rock n roll and even the American dandy.  Quoted from WWD the author (and friend) Robert Bryan says about [...]

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