ALONG WITH ARCHITECT MARC APPLETON, DESIGNER EMILY SUMMERS CREATES A DREAM HOME IN DALLAS FOR HER SON AND HIS WIFE.
WHEN IT COMES TO MOTHERS-IN-LAW, there are pop songs, T-shirts, and endless jokes attesting to the pitfalls of one of life’s most precarious relationships. But Elisa Summers would beg to differ.
At the time she married her husband, Stephen, 17 years ago, she acquired not only a genial spouse but also a charming mother-in-law, Emily Summers, who happens to be a world-class interior designer with a blue-chip clientele and offices in Dallas and Manhattan. “She’s just so talented, and she has incredible vision for her projects,” Elisa says. “Plus, if his mom says it’s good, my husband knows it really is!”
Elisa and Stephen are style arbiters in their own right. They are co-owners of Highland Park Village, the 1930s Mediterranean-style shopping center (said to be the nation’s oldest) that is a crown jewel of Highland Park, the tony Dallas enclave where they both grew up. Since purchasing the complex in 2009 with Elisa’s sister and brother-in-law, they have turned it into a chic shopping destination, with such luxury boutiques as Tom Ford, Céline, Dior, and Fendi.
This story is from the July/August 2017 edition of Veranda.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the July/August 2017 edition of Veranda.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
Aged to Imperfection
In the Cotswolds, Oka cofounder Sue Jones stirs an alluring cocktail of old and new in an agrarian compound, now her forever home
AMERICA'S ENGLISHMAN
From wide-eyed novice to decorating nobility: how Mario Buatta's journey to mad Anglophile draped a nation in chintz, silk, swags, and a legacy of humor and optimism
Estate of Play
MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD revives a romantic Georgian country home in Ireland, deploying grand artistry, craft, and levity in the footprint of local traditions
A PASTORAL PLAYGROUND
Out of an ancestral millhouse, designer MARY GRAHAM raises a new family home in the country, alive with checks, florals, and ruffles
LONDON CORDIAL
MIXMASTER LORENZO CASTILLO DECKS A CHELSEA TOWNHOUSE IN IMMERSIVE PRINTS, RADIANT SEATING, AND A WELCOMING SPIRIT THAT TIPS TO THE WILD SIDE
Minding the Manor
How are Ireland's old noble houses seeding their future? At Ballyfin Demesne, it glimmers in the forests, parklands, gardens, and a way of life that goes back centuries
Perennial Bloomsbury
The creative troupe that ruled the English countryside in the early 1900s had a muse wilder than its lifestyle: the Charleston garden, reborn here in four riotous arrangements.
ENCHANTED GLIN
Along the River Shannon, landscape designer Catherine FitzGerald grows her family's castle gardens into a living wonderland bridging generations
Portrait Mode REVISITED
A new guard of English painters leads a resurgence of the deeply personal art form, capturing faces and figures in a fresh light
The Bold SPIRITS SPEYSIDE
Scotland's famed whisky region reemerges as a stunning epicenter of Celtic craft. Single malt in hand, writer Tracey Minkin joins gallerist and author Hugo Macdonald to discover its decorative arts bloom