To celebrate D Home’s 25th anniversary, we’re revisiting 25 of our favorite stories from the past 25 years in weekly installments, with the help of D Home editors past and present. This week, we’re remembering a story that originally ran in our September/October 2017 issue.
Over the years, I’ve walked through countless beautiful houses—some so lovely they made returning to my own feel a little lackluster. But one house stands apart in my memory, not for its decor, but for the secret it held below the floorboards. Beneath a monolithic modern marvel of a home (which had once graced our covers as one of Dallas’ most beautiful) laid a custom-outfitted sanctuary that completely mesmerized me: the collection of Gail Cook…