Canceled tours, design shows are back on
MA+DS, Milieu and Woodland Heights reschedule events for 2020 calendar
The coronavirus pandemic affected every sector of American life, shutting down the places where we live, work and play. Many spring home tours in Houston were canceled and organizers are only now coming up for air.
Modern Architecture + Design Society’s Ken Shallcross has rescheduled his 2020 Houston home tour for June 27. Only one home from the original lineup has dropped out, so visitors will see seven new modern homes in the city.
Architects whose work is represented are studioMET architects, 2Scale Architects, Scott Ballard Architect, Carnegie Homes and refuGe Design Studio, Intexure + Boxprefab, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate-Gary Greene. studioMET will have two homes on the tour.
This is the 10th anniversary for the modern home tour, and it will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 27. The homes on the tour are located at 1129 W. Pierce; 4038 Falkirk; 5612 Blossom; 2514 Avalon Place; and 2235 Colquitt.
Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door on tour day; buy them at mads.media.
Several home tours and design events were set to run from March through May, but they all were canceled or postponed by mid-March. The Galveston Historical Foundation held its tour virtually, saying they might still hold an in-person tour before the end of the year, and the Rice Design Alliance has not yet rescheduled its home tour.
• Design in Bloom, which
was initially to be on March 24 during Texas Design Week, has been rescheduled for Sept. 15 as part of a new event — the Houston Design District’s Fall Design Week. Design in Bloom speakers include Flower magazine editorin-chief Margot Shaw, Nashville interior designer Ray Booth, Atlanta architect Bobby McAlpine, and Lexington, Ky., landscape architect Jon Carloftis.
• Fall Design Week will run Sept. 15-18 with numerous events, including Access Design — an event co-hosted by the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Design Center — on Sept. 17 and 18. Access Design’s May event was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic and what would have been its August event was pushed back a month to be part of Fall Design Week.
• Woodland Heights has rescheduled its home tour to Oct. 9-11. And Milieu magazine rescheduled its showhome event at 3736 Del Monte for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 6-7 and June 13-14. Tickets are $35 at the door and can be purchased at milieumag.com.
• Texwood Shows has tentatively rescheduled three of its home and outdoor living shows. Tentative dates and locations are: Lake Houston Home and Outdoor Show, Aug. 15-16 at the Humble Civic Center; Montgomery
County Home and Outdoor Living Show, Aug. 29-30 at the Lone Star Convention Center, Conroe; and Cy-Fair Home and Outdoor Living Show, Sept. 19-20 (tentatively) at the Berry Center in Cypress.