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Adrian Dueñas on the Molteni&C kitchen at BeDESIGN in Houston: why a kitchen built for hosting is a different room from one built for cooking, what it costs in time, and who should come stand in it.

As Houston moves indoors for the season of hosting, the dining room takes center stage. The table, the chairs, the light, and the finishing layer, and why to see them in person before the holidays.

A buyer’s guide to B&B Italia in Houston: the Camaleonda, Le Bambole and Charles, how the house differs from Maxalto, lead times, and where to sit on the pieces in Upper Kirby.

Lighting is the part of a room people feel before they can explain it. This guide to the Italian lighting brands at BeDESIGN in Houston covers the houses worth knowing and why lighting rewards a showroom visit. The right fixture does two jobs at once: it throws light where you

Maxalto Furniture in Houston: A Buyer’s Guide to B&B Italia’s Quiet Sibling Some furniture asks to be noticed. Maxalto does something else. It settles into a room and stays there for decades, growing more familiar rather than more tired. If you have spent time replacing pieces that looked striking in

Search for luxury furniture stores in Houston and you will find no shortage of places to buy an expensive sofa. It has very few places where you can sit in the actual European piece you have been reading about, next to its real competition, with someone who can tell you

Molteni&C furniture is built on a simple idea: some brands sell pieces, Molteni&C builds rooms. Ask an interior designer which Italian houses they specify again and again, and Molteni&C comes up almost immediately, because the brand covers nearly the entire home with one consistent design language: sofas and armchairs, dining