Eric Prokesh

Eric Prokesh is an award-winning interior designer who calls Fort Worth his home.

Reflections On The Last Day Of The Kimbell Museum’s ‘Flesh and Blood’

By Eric Prokesh / August 3, 2020 /
Flesh & Blood

As I write this piece I am overcome once again by melancholy, forcefully reminded once more to realize, that this show is about as close to Italy as I am likely to get for the foreseeable future. However, instead of succumbing to self-indulgent despondency, I should be grateful that I live in a place where…

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Shirley Avenue Bungalow Benefits from Choice Location

By Eric Prokesh / July 31, 2020 /
Shirley Avenue

Reflecting on the truly ghastly economic news today, I can only marvel at the seemingly impregnable robustness of the local real estate market. Take, for example, this undeniably charming bungalow priced at the high end of the University Place average square foot price of around $250 per. Listed on July 21st it was under contract…

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Retro Beauty With Low-Key Livable Luxury on Monticello’s Best-Preserved Street

By Eric Prokesh / July 24, 2020 /
Virginia Place

This week’s Fort Worth Friday is about as good as it gets. The listing is only days old and interest is robust. That isn’t surprising given that this is one of the loveliest properties to come to market lately. Add to that, Monticello is one of the Westside’s best neighborhoods and this home is a…

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Best of The Westside: A Near Perfectly Placed In-Town Palazzo

By Eric Prokesh / July 17, 2020 /
Palazzo

A perfectly placed palazzo would be on Lago di Como. I confess to obsessing about Italy a lot these days. It’s only natural with the world on lockdown and another long, hot Texas summer before us, that the mind wanders even if we cannot. Tell me I can’t do something-like travel, and the prohibition becomes…

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Blissful Berkley Place Villa on Pembroke Drive

By Eric Prokesh / July 10, 2020 /
Pembroke Drive

I admit I have a bias towards older houses, as charm and architectural literacy is so often lacking in new construction. And this exquisite 1923 vintage mini-villa in Berkley Place is a stellar exemplar of abiding heirloom excellence. Observe how the narrow French doors appear to press the triple arched central bay forward. Or the…

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