Hollywood glamour … A flashback in fashion…in a closet!
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
The Historic Fort Worth 2010 Designer Showhouse
Oct. 2- 24
1300 Shady Oaks Lane, Westover Hills.
$25 admission includes a guided tour. Tours begin on the hour and half hour.
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
Buy tickets at www.historicfortworth.org; at McFarland House, 1110 Penn St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; or at Brants Realtors, 4541 Bellaire Drive South, Suite 101, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
“The Chiles house has 21 exterior doors… There are shopping opportunities for jewelry by designer Tamra Novak (Camp Bowie Mercantile) and Kim Whitehead’s pen-and-ink drawings of shoes and hats in Fran Chiles’ closet.”
Some of the delights are in the details
“Look for witty and telling details such as the bronze pharaoh door pulls; a hidden outdoor kitchen; the changing patterns of parquet; a Lucite tissue box transformed into a vase in Fran Chiles’ closet by Tamra Novak…”
