Hart/Special Contributor) (Special Contributor) Rather than calling it "Orient and Occident" or "East and West," she took one word from one and the other from the other and made East and Orient, which is also a delightful play on the common phrase "East Orient" because of the addition of "and." Betty Gertz at the door of East and Orient Company. The world, we can safely say, is Gertz's oyster and she makes her way through it with the knowledge of a connoisseur and the enthusiasm of an adolescent.Įven the name - East & Orient - is fascinating, because it combines two terminologies in one phrase. She, by contrast, still goes to work, continues to seek out rare finds, and even travels as she did when she founded East & Orient. She has attained an age when most of her friends would have safely retired and lived in comfort in Dallas. She never drops names, but her Rolodex (she still has one in our digital era) is the envy of the greatest London or Paris hostesses. The world, we can safely say, is Gertz's oyster and she makes her way through it with the knowledge of a connoisseur and the enthusiasm of an adolescent.
And they mix and match beautiful objects from the most distant past and those a mere two centuries old, with the latest fashions in contemporary art and design.
Her friends live in French châteaux, English country houses, German and Dutch castles, and fabled urban apartments. Gertz herself is as "grande" a "dame" as we get in a city in which such women thrive. John Bray and Betty Gertz of East and Orient Company at 1123 Slocum Street in Dallas, Texas.
Founded by the extraordinary Betty Gertz and run with the able connoisseurship of her director, John Bray, East & Orient set a standard, and it is difficult to imagine how many of the most sophisticated collectors in Dallas will do without it.
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