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Dallas’s Top Designers Share Their Go-To Furniture Pieces, From Traditional to Trendy
Round or rectangular dining table? Classic or contemporary chairs? North Texas designers settle the great furniture debates and share a few favorites.
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2021
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This story is part of The Best Designers in Dallas 2021 feature. Click here to see the 2021 winners.
As any good designer will tell you: Not all chairs are created equal. Sure, you can lounge in a La-Z-Boy, but when it comes to aesthetic appeal, the muddled proportions have nothing on the sexy lines of a classic Eames. Shape and scale play a huge part in how a space looks and functions. With that in mind, we asked our Best Designers to play favorites when it comes to iconic silhouettes, settle the great dining-table debate, and weigh in on non-traditional form in furniture.
The Best Designers in Dallas Share Their Favorite Paint Colors for Kitchens, Bedrooms, and More
Plus, their go-to fabrics for sofas, drapes, and beyond.
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March-April
2021
Photography by Nathan Schroder and Elizabeth Lavin
This story is part of The Best Designers in Dallas 2021 feature. Click here to see the 2021 winners.
Asking a designer to pick their favorite color is like asking a parent to choose a favorite child. “I love them all,” says Mary Anne Smiley of Mary Anne Smiley Interiors. They do, however, admit to reaching for certain shades and pairings more frequently than others. Combinations that came up time and time again in our survey included blues and greens as well as classic black and white. As stain-grade wood has made a resurgence in homes, so too have natural tones like camel, cognac, and terracotta. As is true for all design, color choices are intensely personal to the people who call a space home their sensibilities, prefere