Best Place to Bring the Outdoors In (2007)
Napa Home
4012 Oak Lawn Ave.
214-520-4880
214-520-4880
The first things you see when you walk in Napa Home are
Napoleon and Little Bean, two white French bulldogs whose
sweet faces and ovoid bodies at complete and utter rest fit
with the "simple pleasures for the home and palate" theme of
the shop. Napa Home specializes in home accents of natural
objects like seashells, fossils, strange pods, odd pinecones
and vessels made of turned wood or tortoise-colored glass.
The sensual shapes make you want to run your hands over
everything. The look is comfortable but also very modern and
sleek. It's a great place to shop for gifts for newlyweds
who appreciate the out-of-the-ordinary salad bowls, salt and
pepper shakers and servers such as Bandeja Laurel trays,
shaped like palm leaves and made of shiny alpaca metal and
cow horn (naturally shed, of course). Napa Home is also a
great place for inspiration. You start to see possibilities
in your own backyard. Those giant green bois d'arc "horse
apples" (artificial ones are sold at Napa Home) would look
good in a large Chinese bowl. The river rocks down by the
creek could fill a glass cylinder. Line up a simple display
of pomegranates on a fireplace mantel. It's nice to be
reminded that some of the most beautiful things in the world
don't cost more than $1.98 a pound.

