Emily Summers

Memory Lane: 3708 Lexington, R.I.P.

By Candy Evans / January 22, 2013 /

  The home was designed by architect Michael Malone, and was once 5,963 square feet of cast-in-place concrete, with interiors by Emily Summers, and a polychrome mural on the dining room walls by Sol Lewitt. Here’s how you “sell” wall art: the buyers pay for the painting, or you just paint over it with Sherwin…

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Museum Tower Model Homes: Emily Summers Neutral Palette for a Building, a Work of Art Itself

By Candy Evans / April 13, 2012 /

Emily Summers used pieces from her own furniture collection, as well as from the delectable SMINK here in the Dallas Design District to keep it soft and subtle and let the art sing. Her giant 4096 square foot model home seemed to take up an entire floor, and really, walking in there was almost like being…

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My Night at the Museum (Tower) Was Existential, Exhilerating, and Totally Worth Getting Fried

By Candy Evans / April 12, 2012 /

This week Museum Tower offered sneak peaks at the three new model units that are, of course, setting high new standards in Dallas architectutal aesthetics. Emily Summers, of Emily Summers Design Associates, Ann Schooler, Schooler, Kellogg & Company, and Marco French, of Marco French Studio all created three beautiful homes, ranging in size from 2,100 square feet to 3,700 square feet. Each reflected the vision of its respective designer and clearly shows buyers how you can incorporate contemporary, transitional and traditional treatments into the gleaming glass tower. In other words, don’t think just because you are moving into Museum Tower like I am, that you only have to have the spartan look of sterile haute moderne in your home. Oh no, way no.

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Museum Tower Announces Three Showcase Residence Designers: All In The Family

By Candy Evans / November 29, 2011 /

Does this face look familiar? It’s Caroline Summers, who works closely with Ellen Terry and who may very well end up selling some of the Museum Tower residences her mother, Emily Summers, will design. She’s already got a Greenway Parks listing, which we posted a few weeks ago, under contract.

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Museum Tower Announces Three Designers for Showcase Residences. Mission: Modern, Traditional, Timeless

By Candy Evans / November 28, 2011 /

photo from John Sughrue’s Blackberry Last week, I described my hard-hat tour through the glorious Museum Tower. I had so much to tell you and yes, was trying to get out of Dodge for a California Thanksgiving celebration, so I may have omitted some juicy news. Like the Residences at the Ritz Carlton, The Palomar, The House…

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