Welcome to ShowHouse Santa Fe 2015! As co-chairs of the third annual Santa Fe Interior Designer ShowHouse, we’d like to wish you a warm welcome. ShowHouse Santa Fe is a collaboration of 29 local interior designers and numerous sponsors raising funds to benefit local children’s nonprofit Dollars4Schools.org. This year’s theme, Lux New Mex, recognizes the enduring influence of Santa Fe style while embracing the reinvented luxurious Western classics of leather, denim, and suede. We extend our tremendous thanks for the outpouring of support from our generous sponsors and to all the inspirational designers and volunteers for their time and exceptional work. We couldn’t have done this without you! We’d like to thank the owners of the Frank Applegate Estate—this year’s ShowHouse—Katie and Gerald Peters. Our gratitude goes to Santa Fe Properties Luxury Portfolio International: Liz Cale, president; and luxury realtors Deborah Bodelson and Cary Spier; all of whom have worked extremely hard to make this year’s event a success. Due to the scale of this impressive home, we were again able to increase the number of designers participating to build our support for Dollars4Schools. We also appreciate the hard work and dedication of our entire Designer Committee, and all the local artists and design businesses that made this such an amazing endeavor. Special thanks go out to our exclusive founding publication sponsor, Bruce Adams, and the entire team at Bella Media Group. We also want to recognize our vibrant board members Saguna Severson of Prull Construction and Kendra Henning of Reside Home. We’re grateful to our honorary chair, Wade Wilson, for his commitment to supporting this wonderful art and design event. Enjoy your visit to ShowHouse Santa Fe 2015 and be sure to come back with your family and friends.
David Naylor and Jennifer Ashton Founders and co-chairs, ShowHouse Santa Fe 2015
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The Frank Applegate Estate: This Year’s ShowHouse
The theme of this year’s ShowHouse is “Reinventing Western Classics.” It’s perfect; because this year’s ShowHouse is not only a Western classic, it’s a Western classic that’s been reinvented several times since being built in the late 1700s. Located at 831 El Caminito and still known as the Frank Applegate Estate, it’s an original adobe that was built as an 18th-century fortress. It was purchased for $114 in 1845 by Sergeant Francisco de la Peña, a soldier of the Mexican Army who had fought at the Battle of the Alamo, and who was the first to reinvent the property, Enter Frank Applegate. Born in Illinois in 1881, he was an artist his entire life, starting out as a ceramist before becoming a painter. In the 1920s, while studying and teaching in the U.S. and in Europe, he met Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse. A bit of a serial remodeler who regarded homes as “livable sculptures,” Applegate, who had thrown himself into Native and Colonial Hispanic arts and who quickly became a seminal player in developing and establishing the town’s historic conservation movement, soon turned his preservationist’s eye to the property on El Caminito. Gallery owner Gerald Peters and his wife Katie purchased the Applegate Estate in the mid-1980s. Cut from the same cloth as Applegate, the couple, who would fill the house with their four children, had already renovated five other adobes together. Yet, like its previous owner, they were determined to retain the history of the estate. Today, this tree-lined compound of six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, presented by Deborah Bodelson and Cary Spier of Santa Fe Properties, exemplifies everything that makes for a classic Western home: adobe, historic, and always more than ready to accommodate the new, the interesting, and the unexpected. It’s the perfect showcase for the 2015 theme. This year, ShowHouse Santa Fe features 29 local designers, each taking a room of the Applegate Estate and furnishing it according to the “Reinventing Western Classics” guidelines, with leather, denim, and suede. We are proud to announce our 2015 Real Estate Diamond Sponsor, Santa Fe Properties, founded in the Fall of 1986 by Edward W. “Wally” Sargent, and managed today by Liz Cale, President and Qualifying Broker. They are proud to be fourth-generation Santa Feans and have deep roots in the Santa Fe community. Serving Santa Fe also as a teacher, Wally knows the importance of the role schools and teachers have and invites you to join us in supporting the Dollars4Schools benefit. Santa Fe Properties has over 30 years experience in real estate brokerage and development, is Santa Fe’s leading independent real estate firm and has been voted #1 Best Real Estate Firm in Santa Fe since 2006. Santa Fe Properties is affiliated with nationally and internationally top-ranked Luxury Portfolio International. The listing brokers for the Applegate Estate are Deborah Bodelson and Cary Spier. Known as the Bodelson Spier Team, they have a total combined experience of over 30 years and are ranked as one of the top-producing teams in Santa Fe. This is a property with rich history and stories to tell. We invite you to meet us at the Estate, where history meets contemporary. The big reveal begins on Friday, October 2 at the Fiesta Preview Gala at 6 pm.
Proceeds from ShowHouse Santa Fe 2015 go to programs at Dollars 4 Schools: Proceeds from ShowHouse Santa Fe 2015 benefit children’s programs via Dollars4Schools.org, a nonprofit organization that funds activities, materials, and innovative programs for Santa Fe–area schools. Dollars4Schools’s website allows Santa Fe teachers and principals to submit programs that need funding along with a description of the program, the number of students it will serve, and the amount of money required to fund it. When you give directly to Dollars4Schools via its website, 100 percent of your donation goes to supporting Santa Fe public schoolteachers. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent provided by the law.