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COLUMN: Creatively Speaking, Tim McClure

WHAT’S THE MOST CREATIVE BUILDING IN AUSTIN? How about our very own Texas State Capitol? This Renaissance Revival masterpiece is actually taller than our nation’s capitol. (It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true!)

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Style & Design Pick

Photography by Chris Patunas

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Community Style & Design

“The homeowners really wanted to preserve the Victorian character of the house,” says designer Fern Santini who worked with builder Joe Pinelli and architect Mell Lawrence to restore the dwelling without making it
look like a museum piece.“ I selected furniture with clean, modern lines to offset the complexity,” she says.

Victor, Victorian

To Victorian architects, there was no such thing as too much decoration; to modernists, there’s no such thing as too little. So, when a house-hunting couple fell in love with a grand Victorian house near downtown Austin, the history of the place was part of the draw. But definitely not all of it. “We didn’t want to live entirely in the past,” says the wife.


Gallery Pick

featured gallery McKinney Avenue Contemporary

TRIBEZA PICK | McKinney Avenue Contemporary

The MAC (short for the McKinney Avenue Contemporary) wants to get your attention— not just with its bright blue exterior but with the

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