modern.dallas ed.44 // april 2023

Luxury, custom-built homes showcased in the Dallas Builders Association Parade of Homes are a scattered-site, self-guided tour of homes.

Classic Urban Homes will honor Tom Greico with a final tribute as a designer/builder extraordinaire, Tom, one of Dallas’ leading designers and builders, helped pioneer

Mid-Century modern design that is so prevalent now in North Texas. He passed away on January 12, 2019 and the Classic Urban Homes home is based on Tom’s original design for his personal home on this very lot.

Boasting 5 bedrooms and 4 ½ bathrooms, the home’s owner’s suite is on the main floor along with a bedroom

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perfect for a home office or living space for an aging parent. The other three bedrooms are upstairs, adjacent to a game room suitable for even the best video gamers or a secondary home office. There is also a second-floor open air deck featuring a walkout balcony. Its ample courtyard is as architecturally beautiful as it is functional. There’s room

for a pool, an outdoor kitchen and beautiful zen-inspired landscaping.

The family room, dining room and kitchen offer an open floor plan making this house great for entertaining. Additional features include an impressive minimalist-styled

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kitchen with seated island, built-in bookshelves over a wood burning fireplace and hardwood panels wrapping the floating staircase. The sliding patio doors in the living room seamlessly connect the outdoors with the interior of the home. Natural light is abundant in this house.

A unique architectural style with many outdoor areas for lighting make this home just as beautiful in the dark of

evening as it is in the light of day. Tom’s signature design evokes the essence of mid-century modern homes with a minimalist form and function.

“Tom was an inspiration and a mentor to me as I was developing my career in custom home building. It seemed fitting to dedicate this home to Tom’s legacy,” said Michael Turner.

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Preston creek was previously built as a one-story home for another client, the new owners loved the home, but needed more space for their lifestyle and son. Enter the team of Classic Urban Homes, Marek Architecture and Smith and Ragsdale Design to the rescue. The addition involved adding the second floor en suite and living areas, including a loft for their son above the garage, a transitional space from the main house to the upstairs addition, converting two

bedrooms into office spaces for the new homeowners and a very challenging outdoor pavilion situated on the side of a creek overlooking the backyard.

The ‘tree house suite’ consists of one bedroom and bathroom, a sitting/gaming room, a sound-proof music room for his band to practice, and a loft that doubles as a guest room/ game room at the top of a custom-built spiral staicase.

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Welcome to your home of the future built by award winning Hoffmann Homes creating modern energy efficient homes with minimal environmental footprint. Built with insulated concrete forms, this home is built to survive a hurricane while providing incredible energy savings to its lucky owner. When paired with optional solar panel upgrade, this is a Net-Zero home! Additional efficient items include Anderson 100 windows, 20 SEER multi-zone Carrier A/C, tankless water heater with circulation system, electric car charger, solar ready and rain catchment system. The designer interior features light wood floors, 10ft ceilings, and crisp white walls bathing in natural light. The open floor plan boasts

split bedrooms and chef’s kitchen with commercial grade appliances, quartz counters, and walk-in pantry that doubles as a safe room/tornado shelter. Lux primary bedroom includes beverage bar and spa-quality bath with oversized closet, soaker tub and separate shower that is connected to the whole house water filtration system. Hoffmann Homes builds award-winning Green homes that are beautiful, comfortable, healthy environments for our clients to enjoy. Using Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF), our innovative construction process produces high performance, energy efficient homes with minimal environmental footprint.

This Keen Homes custom-build was completed in August 2022. Situated among mature trees and gentle hills of Lakewood this property is located within two blocks of Lakewood Elementary School. The home was built for the current homeowner who participated fully in the architectural and interior finish designs. The homes contains 5,679 square feet living area, five bedrooms with their own baths, two powder baths, a home gym, home office, bar, large gameroom, elevator and pool with spa.

The Parade of HomesTM is an annual event featuring Dallas homes. The event is organized by the Dallas Builders Association, a trade association representing the residential building industry in the Dallas Metropolitan area.

The Parade of Homes will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 6. Tickets are $25 for ages 12 and older.

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coming home: paintings by sarah williams

at Talley Dunn Gallery by Cinzia Franceschini

Anyone knows the feeling of melancholy that blazes when returning, as an adult, to the place where you grew up: it is a punch in the stomach at the sight of your parent’s house, the old elementary school, and the local stores that have changed management, storefronts, and purpose over the years. We move through the grid of streets of which we know every turn and view, but they appear even more mysterious. Everything is overwhelmingly familiar, yet so distant.

Artist Sarah Williams (b. Kansas City, MO, 1984) embodies that feeling in her works: a blurred nostalgia that borders on disorientation. Her paintings – intimate, unsettling, and ghostly – show the way home at the precise moment one realizes that it is not home anymore. They display small towns that seem still and anonymous but are dense with overlapping, little stories. And among those layers is yours.

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Talley Dunn Gallery exhibits Staying Home, a selection of paintings realized by Sarah Williams between 2018 and 2023. In this body of works, the artist draws heavily on her personal story as a young woman growing up in the rural Midwest, Missouri, from which she moved away in her university years in the urban setting of Dallas/Fort Warth only to return in recent times. Williams investigates the concept

of home and its precariousness, its constant relativization according to life’s stages and experiences. At the Talley Dunn Gallery, as in a cinematic film, small-format paintings show houses, bungalows, and petrol stations at twilight. It seems to follow a camera, slowly shooting a Midwestern town and its vernacular architecture. The streets have precise names such as West Crocker Street, North Lincoln Street, or Noah

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Lane but, at the same time, they could be anywhere. They are well-known places by the painter, yet they seem imaginative visions.

Williams’ art practice emanates a surrealist fascination. Her painted homes embody a sense of mystery that recall the buildings of a contemporary René Magritte or Edward Hopper. Aspects of ordinary life become an enigma. They are something always under the eye but hitherto unnoticed. In the Staying Home series,

the artist plays with the indoor and outdoor spaces, creating connections between the visible and invisible. We see the appearance of these houses from the outside, sensing their silence and desolation, but we also know that they are inhabited inside. They are not ghostly or abandoned architectures: life is flowing inside. The lights are on.

The artist achieves to create this haunting atmosphere by choosing glowing colors and livid tones. Yellowish-greenish hues and the bluish sky contribute to give a sense of

The ultimate in modern chill.

isolation. The study of light also plays a key role in her paintings. She focuses on light sources on different surfaces, creating contrast between atmospheric and artificial lights.

Williams’ blurred houses appear distant. It is certainly a physical and geographical gap, but above all an emotional one. Buildings have renewed or degraded, and some may even disappear. The point of view is external: it is the perspec-

tive of the witness, not the inhabitant. Her paintings restore the perception of those watching from the outside the time passing over familiar things. And inevitably changing them.

The approach of Sarah Williams to her images is strongly influenced by her experience. She was raised in Brookfield, Missouri, a rural town of the Midwest, with a population of just over 4,000 and immersed in pasture and cropland.

kauzlarich street, 2023 12h x 23 5/8w

brookline, 2022 9h x 24w x 2d

After earning her BFA, she completed her MFA in Drawing and Painting at the University of North Texas in 2009. She ‘returned home’ to be a Professor of Painting at Missouri State University in Springfield. She has relevant solo exhibitions in Wyoming, Texas, and Missouri and her works are part of collections of major museum institutions, including the Art Museum of South Texas, the Microsoft Art Collection, the University of North Texas, and William Woods University in Missouri. Her paintings cover a time span of different phases of her life and related scenarios.

The series exhibited at Talley Dunn Gallery tells an intimate yet collective story, with which many viewers can spontaneously identify. It tells about the small-town life that shapes our identity, despite the physical and sentimental miles that may be interposed. Staying Home is like an overnight road trip among silent and desolate places we once called home. It is a return to the homeland after a period of distance and it also represents a moment of lucid awareness. Everything has changed its appearance because the first ones to change were us. Home will never be that home anymore.

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GREENWAY PARKS, blending old and new

by Hardy Haberman

As a lifelong resident of Dallas, I have long driven down Mockingbird Lane past the curving “Y’ shaped boulevards that mark the entrance to Greenway Parks. I would occasionally drive through it just to enjoy the parkways and lovely homes. It has always felt like it was and English village commons, homes clustered around green space, and indeed that was the original plan when it was first con-

ceived back in 1925 when Texas architect David Williams laid out the original design. He previously designed a residential development in Tampico, Mexico with a similar concept, but there the homes were arranged around parks rather than parkways.

The spacious set backs and attention to massing and land-

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scaping has kept Greenway Parks a comfortable and lushly green neighborhood. A majority of the homes were built before the 1960’s yet the neighborhood is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary homes. On a recent drive through the area, I was impressed how well the more modern designs do not seem out of place next to an Arts and Crafts Tudor home from the 1930’s.

ing some significant homes like the 1950’s Bauhaus inspired home designed by notable architect Howard Meyer. It has a distinctive modern look while using materials that blend well with the heavily wooded neighborhood.

The home which has been praised by architectural historian Rick Brettell as ,”the best international modernist house in Texas”. Built for the Lipshy family, it is a geometric arrangement of “volumes” created in Redwood, glass

Contemporary gems sparkle throughout the area, includ-

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and brick. It’s open flowing floorpan and distinctive cantilevered open staircase creates a sculptural centerpiece of the structure. Bodron + Fruit architects remodeled and restored the home. They maintained much of the original built-in furniture Meyer created in its interior. The architects preserved and in some cases remanufactured the distinctive doorknobs, cabinet pulls and stair railings.

Keven Mut, Project manager for Bodron + Fruit says the firm has done many works in Greenway Parks including, “two

new homes recently as well as seven remodels.” Their work reflects a cognizance of the materials used in the homes and a style that brings the interior and exterior together.

With all their work in the neighborhood, they maintained the attitude that, ”we wanted to make the houses feel like they had always been there.”

It’s a challenge in this eclectic neighborhood but one that continues to attract the interest of architects and designers

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like architect David Benners who built his own home there. He was conscious of the restrictions of the neighborhood since it has been listed on the National Registry of Historic Places and is covered by the designation as a Dallas Conservation District.

The designation specifies setbacks, height specifications, and building to lot ratios that will prevent the kind of massing taking over other neighborhoods. One has only to drive through neighborhoods adjacent to the “M” Streets to see

how oversized homes can completely change the character of a neighborhood.

Benners’ home was built on a lot previously occupied by an older and poorly maintained house. To keep with the look and feel of the area, Benners’ conserved brick from the home to use in the new structure. He even used a color palette from the older home to lessen the effect on the area. It worked beautifully and the home he calls “Before House” blends beautifully with the surroundings

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photo: charles davis smith

while having it’s own distinctive character. Benners says, “our home illustrates that contemporary architecture can flourish in a conservation district and a neighborhood that is listed with the National Registry of Historic Places, and function delightfully for a family with small children.”

Today, Benners still has projects within his own neighborhood, though most are renovations of existing homes to bring them up to date and make them more accommodating of the modern lifestyle.

His work puts a contemporary spin on older homes, discovering what he calls, “lost opportunities” in the use of space.

The future of Greenway Parks seems bright. With Conservation District status, the original concept of the “village commons” and flowing greenbelts will continue to make the neighborhood desirable for homeowners and designers alike. A neighborhood where the ideas of the past blend with the current and future to create one of the most pleasant neighborhoods in the city.

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