House Candy
Do you know what the Jubilee Community Center is? The Jubilee Park & Community Center was founded in 1997 when a group of caring people figured out that families and children had no place to safely congregate in the South Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood. The mission of “Jubilee Park” is to improve the quality of life of…
Earlier this week, I told you about 3909 Marquette, which was once the home address of Abraham Zapruder, the man who took the video of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas 50 years ago. He filmed meticulously with a Bell & Howell Zoomatic Director Series Model 414 PD camera and his work today remains the sole…
This luscious home at 5622 Harbor Town up in Bent Tree North, was designed by starchitect Frank L. Meier in 1981. It brings us nicely out of an introspective week here on CandysDirt.com, gazing at 1963-era homes built the year President John F. Kennedy made his tragic, fateful trip to Dallas. The home is…
This is the Continuum chair — a work of Italian art by Mr. Gio Ponti 50 years ago. The chair is made of rattan bent entirely by hand, then fastened with leather bindings. The chairs were made by Bonacini Pierantonio in the Como province, and vintage Continuums rarely pop up at auction. Scott+Cooner had them…
