Room To Breathe Interior Designer Erin Sander fashions an expansive residence shaped by art, light, and the discipline of restraint. BY ROB BRINKLEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY NATHAN SCHRODER
A Preston Hollow home designed by Blume Architecture, built by Tatum Brown Custom Homes, with interior design by Erin Sander.
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pace can really change some people. Not overnight—but gradually. It can change how they gather, how they entertain, where they read, and how long they linger over meals. It can even affect how much one artist’s work can breathe before another artist’s work asks for attention. This is the story of a family who left Manhattan for Texas— not necessarily in search of a bigger life, but a bigger house. Like many migrations born of the Covid pandemic, theirs began with a realization: Time spent away from crowded New York in an airy vacation home reminded them how pleasant it can be to spread out, to see beyond the next building, to live with more elbow room. Dallas would eventually become the destination, in a home of almost 10,000 square feet in Preston Hollow designed by Christy
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Jason Martin, Maloja, 2010, oil on aluminum, anchors the entry above an Alexander Lamont console table complemented by a Lobmeyr chandelier and a Liaigre bench.
Blumenfeld of Blume Architecture and still in framing when the family found it. Construction had progressed far enough to reveal its promise—a clean-lined take on a classical, hip-roofed house—but not so far that they couldn’t make it their own. “You can’t live like this in Manhattan.” Dallas interior designer Erin Sander has just strolled out of the very large living room and toward the very long swimming pool out back. Beyond that is a bright-blue tennis court and a deepgreen putting range. (This one-acre lot certainly allows for a lot of luxuriating.) But nowhere is Sander’s point proven more than back inside, where tall ceilings and broad rooms replace the vertical choreography of city life. And though the family arrived with museum-quality contemporary art and a clear sense of themselves, the big adjustment was all this space. That’s where Sander came in.