MODCITI.DALLAS ISSUE 16 DECEMBER 20

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Modernist fans Brandon Oberschlake and Jeff Valyou realized their dream homes in very different locales.

When it comes to building the perfect structure, there are many factors at play. The site, the owner’s taste, and the architect’s skill set will all influence the final result, making it all the more remarkable when not one—but two— abodes perfectly realize their residents’ desires.

For Oberschlake and Valyou, bringing their fantasy to life twice had a lot to do with a fortuitous introduction to the Dallas architects Far + Dang. Oberschlake (a supply chain manager) and Valyou (who works in financial strategy project planning) were living in Manhattan and trying to decide where their next residence might be. On their way back from a winter vacation to South America in 2011, they were stuck in Dallas right as a blizzard buried New York. Friends in town took them on a city tour, and they immediately loved what they saw.

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“Manhattan got 27 inches of snow, and it was one of those weekends in Dallas where it was 75 degrees,” laughs Oberschlake. “I liked the vibe of the city, and the cost of living was great. We put our apartment on the market, and it ended up selling before we even got it listed.”

On the hunt for a Texas residence, the duo came across builder Alan Kagan. Two hours before they were due to return to New York, they put an offer on a contemporary townhouse designed by Far + Dang partners Rizzi

Faruqui and Bang Dang. When it came time for the pair to upgrade to a single-family home, it was clear who the architects needed to be.

“We knew Bang’s aesthetic, so we put a lot of trust in him,” says Oberschlake. “It was a natural progression, and their style is exactly what we love. We definitely wanted a monochromatic, clean-lined structure. We wanted something that was a bit of departure from other modern buildings, and it ended up having this really sleek look.”

Nestled in between the Knox-Henderson and Greenville Avenue neighborhoods, the lot the pair chose was an unusual shape, which lent itself to Dang’s L-shaped structure of corrugated steel with two wings embracing an interior courtyard with a pool.

Says the architect, “I would call it very refined taste in modernism, where the house itself is almost like a shell for art and furnishings. The house is this clean-lined structure with a very particular design rationale behind it. For the main house, which is on a corner lot and a triangular lot, we used that as clues to design all the angles and the roof shapes. In architecture, when you’re on the end lot of the

street and your lot is unusual, it actually works out well and allows you to do something a little bit bolder.”

Even before the owners moved in, the home’s black metal ribbed siding, clean white interior, and single-story footprint prompted neighbors to nickname it “the museum house.”

Completed a year ago, the final result was stunning enough it won a 2020 award from the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects. But Oberschlake and Valyou weren’t entirely done.

“We started looking in this radius of where we could pop up to on a Friday night after work, enjoy that evening,

and not be stressed about the drive home on Sunday,” recalls Oberschlake. “The Hill Country is beautiful but can be very expensive, and East Texas is also beautiful but felt too similar to here. Broken Bow is in the he Ouachita National Forest, and the rolling topography and pine trees felt very different.”

The couple purchased 3.5 wooded acres in Oklahoma and reached out to Dang to design a structure that could serve as a companion of sorts to their city home.

Instead of an angular building, the “anti-log cabin” has a narrow rectangular shape that blends perfectly in its forest environs. Inspired by Scandinavian and Japanese design,

the two-bedroom structure completed this fall features a huge deck that runs the cabin’s length and an interior courtyard with slatted screens of cedar. Dubbed “Komorebi” (a Japanese word that means “sunlight through the trees”), the home can be rented via Airbnb or through the Cabin Collection.

“It’s an extension of the living space, but it’s also an extension of the outdoors,” says Dang of the courtyard,

which was also designed to let the owners’ two pugs have an outside space away from local wildlife. “In architectural terms, it’s a microclimate between the interior and the outside. The gable of the house and arched ceiling also mimics the verticality of the forest.”

With two residences to choose from, Oberschlake and Valyou have the best of both worlds, shifting curated collections of art from Galleri Urbane and Cris Worley Fine Arts and their mix of modern and antique furniture around

as they see fit. “The houses are the for the most part interchangeable,” says Valyou. “We like all the pieces we have; it’s just a matter of mixing and matching; we like to move things around and keep them fresh. We enjoy going to design shops and seeing if something catches our eye.”

Because no dream project is ever quite complete, the pair are also planning yet another structure in Broken Bow on a second lot that they’ll also rent out. This time the house is being devised by Dang as a series of “staggered squares,” but it won’t be completed until well into 2021.

“He’s already come up with a couple of concepts,” says Oberschlake. “They’re very involved architects, but they have a wonderful balance where they’re engaged and steadfast in their point of view and at the same time incorporate their client’s wishes. It’s a good bond we have with each other.”

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Galleri Urbane owners Ree and Jason Willaford have mastered the art of adaptation.

State, studying under Jim Roche and Color Field painter Trevor Bell.

From the moment they met on a Colorado hiking trip to their recent purchase of the Design District building that has housed their gallery since 2009, the couple has created both their love and success stories on their own terms.

“We had mutual friends, and we all went camping. It was one of those things where here’s this hot guy on a Harley, but I was like ‘I don’t care, I already had a boyfriend,’” laughs Ree. “I hired him because I needed an artist to paint my backgrounds, and we started hanging out.”

The pair met in Los Angeles as young creatives in the early 1990s. Ree had already built a successful career working in retail visual design and merchandising for the likes of Giorgio Beverly Hills. Jason had recently relocated from Florida, where he earned his BFA from Florida

From the beginning, their conversations were effortless, but it took a moment for the lightbulb moment to happen.

Says Jason, “I remember thinking, ‘It’s too bad I don’t like

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this person because we finish each other’s sentences.’

Later on, when I told her that, she said she was thinking the exact same thing!”

It wasn’t long before the two moved in together. Jason didn’t align with Los Angeles’s culture, so he decided to take off on a motorcycle trip across the U.S. with Ree on the back. After traveling over 8000 miles, they ended up in Tampa, Florida, with no real plan.

Because the city’s former Cuban cigar rolling district was up and coming, they decided to open an organic coffee and juice bar called The Contradiction. Launched for just

under $3,000 (their life savings at the time) in the pre-Jamba Juice era, their DIY approach of doing everything from décor to the menu themselves worked. However, Jason was ready to hit the road once again.

“Jason wanted to live where there were no distractions, and he could work in the studio and create art, but he didn’t want to be around other artists,” Ree recalls. “We put a pin in the map for Silver City, New Mexico. It was super cheap, and that’s where Galleri Urbane was born.”

By this time, the couple was married with their daughter Camille on the way. Ree quit the juice business to fo-

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cus on motherhood, while Jason worked construction while painting a series of figurative encaustic paintings entitled “The Belly of the Cowgirl.” Living in a Victorian shotgun home, they decided to take their last $500 and mount a show of the work in their front rooms.

“We emptied our bank account to buy smoked salmon and lamb and scotch and whiskey and did this beautiful spread and had a private party,” says Ree. “We sold every piece. Back then, his art wasn’t that expensive; 600 to 800 dollars a painting, but for us, that was like, oh my God!” Silver City-based art photographer Michael Berman (whose work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was impressed enough to ask the couple if they were interested in showing his imagery as well. By Galleri Urbane’s second show, it was clear the space could—and should— be their full-time focus. The Willafords chose a name they felt embodied the refinement and edge inherent in the work.

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“We loved the word Urbane,” says Ree. “It’s slick and minimal and hard-edged. We’re still very much about art as object and not straight paintings. We’re always had ceramics and shaped paintings or mixed media.”

With Galleri Urbane off and running, it was clear while they were evolving, tiny Silver City wasn’t. A client recommended the Willafords check out Marfa, so they decided to expand with a pop-up of work in the then-sleepy Texan town. Pulled together in just 12

hours over the city’s legendary Chinati Weekend, the event allowed them to make instant connections with art and film world heavy hitters.

The second version of Urbane was launched in a 100-yearold Adobe, and the couple immersed themselves in a scene that was rapidly becoming fodder for the New York Times and Vogue. As movers and shakers came up from larger Texan cities to check things out, the Willafords had an eye for expansion. Dallas’s up-and-coming art

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scene won out, mostly because local schools could offer Camille the best academic opportunities.

Prescient enough to establish a web presence in the late ‘90s, Ree Willaford built up Urbane’s business even during a recession, and she was soon sourcing talent from all over the globe. Meanwhile, an autoimmune disorder had forced Jason to move on from physically tiring painting to different mediums. A shift to sculptural works he paints and layers from discarded billboards was the fresh approach he needed, and the likes of the Dallas Contemporary and Oklahoma Contemporary mounted shows of his work.

Today, with pieces in over 200 private and public collections, including Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s New York, the Kirkpatrick Foundations, and Toyota Headquarters (to name a few), the artist goes from strength to strength. Most recently, his site-specific installation inspired by the human figure was an immersive, Technicolor delight in Urbane’s front room.

Assisted by their right-hand man, assistant gallery director/ curator Adrian Zuñiga, the couple still does everything with the same pioneer spirit as they began, sourcing talent, installing art, and nurturing their stable in their indomitable way. Their continued success seems to be as natural as the easy rapport that first drew them together.

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“What I didn’t realize is, when I’ve had dinner with some pretty successful people over the last 25 years, and tell them this story, they say, “You guys are gamblers or outlaws,’” laughs Jason. “I thought everyone in this business took chances. It’s like you met somebody and had the same ideas, and everything melded. We got together, and it happened organically, and here we are 27 years later. We just shoot from the hip and be ourselves.”

Galleri Urbane is located at 2277 Monitor Street. The work Budapest, Hungary-based painter József Csató and Bulgaria/Washington D.C.-based ceramist Iren Tete will be on view by appointment from January 9 through February 13, 2021. galleriurbane.com

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urban haciendas for a reborn community

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West Dallas and Oak Cliff have arguably the most beautiful terrain in the DFW area. I’ve long felt the hills and wooded neighborhoods just a few miles from the urban center of downtown makes West Dallas a desirable location for anyone wanting to escape the suburban sprawl to the north and still live in a singlefamily home. That’s why when I heard about the Haciendas project by Qaxaca Interests, I was intrigued. When I found that award-winning architects, Lake/Flato were

involved I became even more curious. I spoke with the CEO and founder of Qaxaca Interests, Brent Jackson, about the vision of the unusual project.

“We wanted to go against the grain a little,” Brent said, “and built low density homes in an urban area. At the same time, we wanted to weave our development into the existing neighborhood.”

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The simple designs and hipped roofs echo the character of the neighborhood and yet are modern, energy-efficient, sustainable designs that integrate outdoor and indoor living. The landscaping, designed by Hocker Design Group, uses native drought-resistant plants and features trellis fencing that will become plant covered privacy screens in just a few years.

The exteriors of these homes make use of white and unpainted stucco as well as corrugated metal provide a

neutral pallet that will stand the test of time. Inside the homes are both spacious and functional.

“People put a premium on low maintenance, sustainably designed home with breathing room,” Brent said, “we also wanted to build something sustainable, efficient use of space that was accessible and reduced waste.” These homes provide all of that.

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square feet but feel much larger inside because of the functional use of the space. They are particularly attractive to young buyers who are ready to move up from a starter home as well as downsizers or empty-nesters. They were intentionally designed to be cost-conscious and attractive at the same time. Interiors are focused on the courtyard

of each home. The generous windows bring the outdoors and indoors together seamlessly and gives living spaces a spacious and open feeling. The kitchens are equipped with Electrolux appliances and feature large worktable/ serving counters that are perfect for entertaining.

The first houses completed are part of a much larger plan which includes up to 80 homes in the neighborhood.

Located directly behind the Belmont Hotel, and within a short walk or drive from Sylvan 30 and Trinity Groves they offer single-family living in a vibrant urban community that is being reborn. dallashaciendas.com

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Modern events and activities make for fall fun around the Metroplex.

Meditations: Eleanore Mikus at Tamarind The Amon Carter Museum

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Virtual Tour - The Fight for Civil Rights in the South Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

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Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil by Chris Schanck Dallas Museum Of Art // opens jan17

FOCUS: Leidy Churchman Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, please confirm availability of viewing these exhibits.

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Charmaine Locke and James Surls Kirk Hopper Fine Art // opens january 15

Juan Flexus + Pork and Beans Plush Gallery

Adrian Esparza Cris Worley Fine Arts

Dornith Doherty Holly Johnson Gallery

Andrea Rosenberg + Fauna and Flora Barry Whistler Gallery

Robert Mars and Stallman Laura Rathe Fine Art

Shit Show MFA Gallery

Peter Frederiksen + Jason Willaford Galleri Urbane

Brandon Thomson + Ciara Elle Bryant ro2art // view current shows online or appointments maybe available