Stash Style • Zapp Hall & Marburger Farm

On The Crush List because…

I’m sorry for what I said when I was hungry.

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Shannon Vance and her team from Stash Style put up not one but two zero cool spaces at this year’s Fall Show.  Most of my pics are from the Zapp Hall building, but the teepee and doilies-gone-wild shots below are from Marburger.  Don’t you want to buy pretty much anything from the folks who can create spaces like these?

Stash Style Teepee

Stash Style Doilies

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I drink my whiskey out of a teacup… Take me to the lake… Silly boys, trucks are for girls… Sorry for what I said when I was hungry…  Stash Style t-shirts, like everything else, are made from vintage stock in Shannon’s studio in Rocky River, OH, which if you don’t know is near Cleveland and is both the birthplace of George Steinbrenner and the home of the Cowen Pottery Museum.

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Stash Style Sofas

Quick aside:  Chris and I drove all over Texas one month hunting high and low for that very wagon wheel living room set.  We never found one in great shape for a great price, so we’ve lived our lives without, which seems a shame and I’m thinking we should probably get back to making one happen.

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Stash Style Product

The Zapp Hall space had a lot of hats for sale, some in a straw stovepipe style that seems like a southern gentleperson’s version of the hat worn by Slash. If you’ve been looking for this look, please know that the ones here were much hipper than those available at Dress Like a Pirate dot com.

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Preview Day at Marburger Farm • Round Top, TX

On The Crush List because…

When push comes to shove, this is where it’s at.

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You leave at sunrise.  Sit patiently in the traffic.  Pay the premium entry fee.  Get herded through the parking chutes. You find the luxury potty trailer and the gourmet breakfast booth and you stake your spot at your favorite entrance.  Then you wait.  For the bell.  Because Marburger Preview Day starts with the ringing of the bell.

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It’s a super scorchy steamy Preview Day. 9:45 am and we’re already squinting and shielding and sticking to ourselves.  Nevertheless, when the welcome bell rings at exactly 10:00 we scoot over and under the caution tape barrier with dewy-fresh enthusiasm.

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Inside, every gorgeous booth is preview perfect.  I spend most of my time watching the deals go down; buyers scooping up tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods with a few points of a finger.  Clearly, I’m surrounded by the serious players in the interiors world – a real Who’s Who – but since I only know the faces I know, most of the fun is wondering who all the the other Who’s are.  BTW, this year’s surprise star and most Facebook-photo-posted shopper was probably Anderson Cooper, who kindly walked the show without a hat or even a pair of Ray-Bans.  I’m sorry I didn’t get a photo of him for you, but you can imagine it, right?

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