There is a reason everyone gravitates to the kitchen — no matter what. It’s the most important room in the house, where families connect and friends and neighbors gather and build community, all over food and drink and conversations and fun. Whether you love hosting grand parties or whipping up a romantic dinner for your significant other, the kitchen is responsible for a lot of magic. When you’re looking for a home with a beautiful luxury kitchen design, remember it’s not [...]

The agents of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty aren't just experts on houses, neighborhoods and schools — they are experts on trends and style. (And they are frequently asked by journalists, websites and publications for their insight.) Read what our Sam Saladino has to say about the interiors that North Texas buyers are responding to, in this new article from Inman. There are some surprises in what he says. Read all about it, here. BONUS! Below, interiors that are absolutely on-trend, in homes represented by Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty [caption id="attachment_57728" align="alignnone" [...]

There are reasons that the private spaces of the 2018 Nasher Prize winner work their way into his compelling art. (And vice versa.) Jeremy Strick, the director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, reports from inside a singular, spellbinding world.

Principal photographs by Nan Coulter

[caption id="attachment_56663" align="aligncenter" width="460"] Theaster Gates in a pottery room in his studio in Chicago. In his work, he incorporates sculpture, ceramics, performance, music and [...]

They’re not ‘just things,’ as some will try and tell you. Your home furnishings telegraph all kinds of messages and meanings — and not just to those who come to visit. The journalist LEE CULLUM does some translating. “Things contain people.” So said Dallas-born novelist Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. They also contain ideas, memories, places. For Hailey, it was all of those when she furnished The English Room at her house in Los Angeles. In it, she put pieces that she and her [...]

A designer of grand, glorious spaces comes home each night to a tiny apartment with just the bare necessities — you know, like a Directoire desk and bronze busts. Here, the wonderfully big story of a terribly small place.