Food, Fabrics, Fab Booze & Chateaux: Join Rusty Arena & Timothy Corrigan at ID Collection Tuesday PM

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cn_image.size.timothy-corrigan-01-chateau-du-grand-luce-exterior-h670As you know, The fabulous ID Collection has joined the CandysDirt family on our designer page, because we love designers (Blue Sky Living, Bernadette Schaeffler, Margaret Chambers, Jason Lenox) and even our fanciest real estate would be bare-ass naked without them! So we are kind of psyched to tell you about a partee this Tuesday down at ID with a celeb guest: AD 100 designer Timothy Corrigan, who will be signing copies of his latest book, Chateau du Grand-Luce’. The Chateau is Corrigan’s vacation home in France, lucky canard, and he lives there two months out of the year, so yes, it’s a SecondShelter. The Chateau was recently featured in Architectural Digest.

“Now that is what we call a spectacular second shelter,” says ID’s Jim Williamson.

item13.rendition.slideshowWideHorizontal.timothy-corrigan-11-guest-bedroom-chateau-du-grand-luce item8.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.timothy-corrigan-15-stairwell-chateau-du-grand-luce-extraYou know how I believe every house has a story? Well, this one has a dang novel: In 1781 the Loire Valley village surrounding the Chateau, was built mostly of wood and ravaged by a fire that started in a bakery. Mon Dieu! The chatelaine, that’s lady of the Chateau, Louise Pineau de Viennay—sheltered the townspeople in her splendid outbuildings while she had their homes and shops reconstructed in tuffeau, the region’s creamy white limestone, or so the fable goes. Flash forward eight years to the French revolution: not only was the lady of the house spared (her generosity surely remembered, says AD) but so were Grand-Lucé and its treasures, among them a room full of rare chinoiserie murals. Now you see why Corrigan had to write a book about it!item1.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.timothy-corrigan-02-grand-salon-chateau-du-grand-luce item4.rendition.slideshowWideVertical.timothy-corrigan-08-formal-dining-room-chateau-du-grand-luce

Also of note at ID: Houston textile designer Rusty Arena has joined ID Collection as part of their already fabulous line of textiles and to celebrate his 25th anniversary of making beautiful gorgeous fabrics and wallcoverings.

“His things are all hand-printed in Houston and just lovely,” says Jim. “He has a loyal following in Houston with the design elite.”

He is also super sweet, Jim said, and we like sweet here at CandysDirt!

Of course they are tying all this together with delicious bites from TLC Catering, desserts by Samantha Rush ( yummy!) and music mixed by DJ Shuttle ( aka Nate Donmoyer) of Passion Pit fame.

So if you are looking for beautiful fabrics and wallcoverings that rival Fortuny, beautiful house porn from far-away lands, and booze with bites and beats, ID Collection has you covered this Tuesday eve.

“What is not to love about that combination?” asks Jim. Well, nada. I am already dreaming of that French Chateau…

 

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

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  1. […] classic grandeur of the stately European manors, particularly after I have just finished reading designer extraordinaire Timothy Corrigan’s Chateau Du Grand Luce, getting my copy just last night. Of course, Corrigan’s chateau was 45,000 square feet, […]

  2. […] classic grandeur of the stately European manors, particularly after I have just finished reading designer extraordinaire Timothy Corrigan’s Chateau Du Grand Luce, getting my copy just last night. Of course, Corrigan’s chateau was 45,000 square feet, […]

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