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WHERE LIFE AND ART INTERSECT Luxe Lifestyle
UPPER KIRBY COMMUNIT Y
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From the Top
LET TER FROM THE DEVELOPER
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Salone Del Mobile 2019
GIORGET TI’S VISION OF THE HOME AT THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR
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The Latest
HOUSTON CONDO MARKET UPDATE
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Design Boom
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G I O R G E T T I H O U S TO N is the inaugural collaboration of Giorgetti, Stolz Partners, Mirador Group and Sudhoff.
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Luxe Life
EXPLORE UPPER KIRBY DISTRICT Upper Kirby, one of Houston’s premiere inner loop neighborhoods, is growing by leaps and bounds. Exceptional amenities are key features to the area tucked between Montrose, River Oaks and Greenway Plaza. The community is most notably known for an eclectic mix of restaurants and retail. The Arrive River Oaks development (formerly known as West Ave) includes the popular eatery Eddie V’s Prime Seafood and women’s luxury clothing store Tootsies. Visitors can complete the retail experience with a rejuvenating spa treatment at Milk + Honey. Plan a picnic at nearby Levy Park with casual fare from Local Foods known for their fresh farm-to-table ingredients. Levy Park is an awardwinning green space that includes a children’s playground and community garden. It also offers family movie nights, concerts and fitness classes. Cap off a long day with cocktails and modern Japanese cuisine at Kata Robata or at the original family-owned favorite Carrabba’s. Or for those who prefer cooking at home, a new H-E-B is coming soon, across from Whole Foods Market. Exciting changes are taking place in Upper Kirby. Just down the street, a planned luxury entertainment concept, Pinstripes plans to open in the fall of 2019. As the area evolves, residents will enjoy proximity to high profile amenities while living in one of Houston’s most popular neighborhoods.
From the Top LETTER FROM THE DEVELOPER It is an exciting time at Giorgetti Houston, construction is well underway with the roof installation 90% complete. Apart from the 7th floor, the vast majority of windows have been installed, brick installation and the application of water proofing coating is ongoing. The building’s interior is shaping up nicely. Metal framing is ongoing, and the elevators are currently being installed. Plumbing, mechanical, fire sprinkler, and electrical rough-ins are complete up to the 4th floor — floors 5 and 6 are next. Additionally, we have begun setting condensers and air handlers throughout the building as well as setting the fireplaces on the 3rd floor. In addition to these activities the Giorgetti cabinets for the 3rd and 4th floor have arrived and are being stored. We are happy to report our progress and look forward to welcoming you to your new home. WILL STOLZ | STOLZ PARTNERS
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Salone Recap SALONE DEL MOBILE 2019 GIORGETTI’S VISION OF THE HOME AT THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR
Salone Del Mobile, also known as Milan Furniture Fair, is the largest trade fair of its kind in the world. Design, fashion, wine culture, and luxury cars and yachts come together under the Giorgetti brand,sharing the same values as the company: excellence, attention to detail and elegance. Traditional craftsmanship and creativity are engaged to generate exceptional experiences that embody ‘good living’. That’s how Giorgetti offers made-to-last projects to its many partners – companies with which it has embarked down a shared path, from Maserati to Antinori, Listone Giordano, Monte Carlo Yachts and Agnona, up to the newest collaboration with Giada, the refined fashion brand. In this exchange of knowledge, contemporary trends are interpreted via unique, extraordinary manufacturing. The perfect balance between artisan and industrial production methods, stylistic choices and innovative solutions, the new collections presented at the Salone del Mobile are designed to be in dialogue with Giorgetti icons. Furnishing elements are added one after the other in free compositions, intricately and completely designing the space, whether a home, hotel,restaurant, yacht or boutique. All possible residential needs are met by the Giorgetti lifestyle, which speaks an increasingly international language while maintaining its deep Italian roots.
The Latest HOUSTON CONDO MARKET UPDATE The success of Giorgetti Houston underscores the evolving preferences and expectations of the city’s luxury condominium buyer. The “first ever” level of standard luxury finishes and features includes Giorgetti kitchens, Italian hardwood flooring, Italian quartz countertops, Gaggenau appliances, and large private covered terraces with outdoor kitchens, fireplaces and even provisions for pets and doggie doors. As a result, Giorgetti is attracting buyers who previously would not have otherwise considered a condominium as their next home. And, has forever altered expectations for Houston luxury condominiums. The latest report released this week by Sudhoff tracked the last 12 months of sales and inventory levels of new luxury condominiums in Houston. Inventory levels fell by more than 18% in less than five months and no additional product has been added to offset the steady demand. At the current sales absorption pace- all new construction condominiums will be sold in approximately 12 months. If you have friends or family members considering moving or purchasing a new condominium, please be sure to connect them to our sales team while inventory is still available. MIKE REDDELL | SUDHOFF
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frisson, as is the highly anticipated expansion of the Holocaust Museum by Mucasey & Associates, Architects. Beyond the arts, Houston’s sensorial explosion extends to the hospitality sphere too, with the launch of the five-diamond Post Oak Hotel at Uptown, an ultra-luxe 250room property by Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta that caters to the traveling aesthete. With a dramatic lobby decorated in Frank Stella paintings and a museum-quality collection containing pieces by Robert Motherwell, Alex Katz, and Howard Hodgkin, a stay there whets the appetite for art in all its vibrant forms. An interest in design-led spaces has also infused Houston’s leafy neighborhoods, with the long-held preference for sprawling homes being displaced by luxury lifestyle condominiums among a certain set. One of the most exciting residential projects in the works is Giorgetti Houston, a collaboration between the venerable 120-year-old Italian furniture maker and local architecture and interiors firm Mirador. The horizontal seven-story mid-rise marks Giorgetti’s first foray into branded residential living, and it will have just 32 exquisitely appointed apartments, each with bespoke maple, marble, leather, and fabric finishes. “The building will be representative of the Giorgetti Italian lifestyle,” says Giovanni del Vecchio, managing director of Giorgetti. “Each of the flats will be a timeless work of art.”
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IN HOUSTON, AMERICA’S ENERGY CAPITAL, THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE SCENE IS BIG—AND ONLY GETTING BIGGER. BY CHRISTINA OHLY EVANS PRODUCED BY CHARLES CURKIN
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1. Outside the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, designed by Steven Holl Architects. 2. Epidemic! Presents: Step and Screw! (2014), by Trenton Doyle Hancock, on exhibit at the Menil Collection. 3. Inside the Post Oak Hotel at Uptown, designed by philanthropist and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta. 4. Custom leather boots and a belt from Maida’s. 5. A rendering of the Giorgetti Houston residential building, on track to be completed by 2020.
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There is something in Houston for art enthusiasts in nearly every genre.
in Texas—not just the 10-gallon hats and Tex-Mex smorgasbords, but also its art and design worlds. In Houston, especially, cultural institutions are thriving, and introducing an international design mix has become a top priority. The city has long been an epicenter for oil, space exploration, and medicine, and with that has come a diversity that is being reflected in everything from art exhibitions to residential architecture, making Houston one of the most dynamic and eclectic urban centers anywhere. “We’re knocking it out of the park,” says Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, of the city’s flourishing arts institutions. “Our
museums, the opera, and the Houston Ballet are creating programming that is as good as anywhere else in the world.” There’s something for art enthusiasts in nearly every genre. The spate of culturally hefty programming includes a blockbuster exhibition, “Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art” (through June 27) at the MFAH, and “Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock” (through May 19), a show of the sardonic illustrator’s work at the Menil Collection, which features a new Drawing Institute designed by Los Angeles–based ED A-List architects Johnston Marklee. And it isn’t only the established names f lexing their muscles this year: The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, a new cross-disciplinary, experimental space, is adding to the city’s intellectual
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Houston’s retail scene is equally robust, with a newly opened design shop, Paloma & Co., cofounded by ED A-List decorator Paloma Contreras, and showrooms including the highly curated CASA, which is bringing standout Italian furniture by Poltrona Frau and flooring by Listone Giordano, among others, to Texans with an appreciation for artisanal, high-quality craftsmanship. Classics endure, of course, and Houston is the place for a pair of perfectly made custom boots by sixth-generation maker Maida’s. While the French calf leather used by Maida’s is sourced from du Puy and d’Annonay—the same tanneries that supply Hermès—the silhouettes, embroidery, and embellishments are a cowboy’s delight. This same authentic approach is being felt in foodie Houston, where chef Ford Fry is tweaking traditional Tex-Mex classics at Superica in the Heights and serving made-to-order fried chicken and Gulf seafood with killer cocktails at his retro-cool La Lucha. Nowhere is the transformation of the city felt more than at Central Market, a supermarket on steroids–cum–cooking school that features a 70-foot-long seafood case, more than 2,500 wines at any time, and a delicious rotating “passport series” that highlights the cuisines of countries around the globe. With Houston still rebuilding after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey and soon to edge out Chicago as the third most populous city in America, it has a sizable responsibility to become one of the country’s most important cultural centers. Luckily, in Texas, size isn’t an issue. ◾
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An interest in design-led spaces has also infused Houston’s leafy neighborhoods, with the long-held preference for sprawling homes being displaced by luxury lifestyle condominiums among a certain set. One of the most exciting residential projects in the works is Giorgetti Houston, a collaboration between the venerable 120-year-old Italian furniture maker and local architecture and interiors firm Mirador. The horizontal sevenstory mid-rise marks Giorgetti’s first foray into branded residential living, and it will have just 32 exquisitely appointed apartments, each with bespoke maple, marble, leather, and fabric finishes. “The building will be representative of the Giorgetti Italian life style,” says Giovanni del Vecchio, managing director of Giorgetti. “Each of the flats will be a timeless work of art.”
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Inside the new Menil Drawing Institute, designed by Johnston Marklee.
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