A new couple has moved into the Rachofsky house and is making it their home with artworks from emerging, usually female, artists.
Joe and Kristen Cole moved in August from Austin to Dallas and into the home designed by modernist Lionel Morrison and built by Howard and Cindy Rachofsky. The Coles said the house’s modernist style was perfect for them and their collection.
“It feels right — it’s a 1990s modernist house built by collectors,” Kristen Cole told Artsy. “It’s the only house we looked at in Dallas. We were just like: Done! Easy!”
Kristen Cole is president and chief creative officer of Forty Five Ten, the Dallas-based high-fashion boutique owned by Tim Headington. Joe Cole works as a creative consultant to Headington.
The couple started buying art in 2008 while living in Los Angeles. Joe Cole told Artsy it began with photography, but the couple’s taste soon matured into paintings and sculptures.
Over the years, the couple also migrated toward predominantly female artists. Their Dallas home displays pieces by
Katherine Bradford, Sam Moyer, Katherine Bernhardt, Margaux Ogden and Sarah Braman.
“We inadvertently started collecting a lot of female artists,” Joe Cole told Artsy. “But then, in the climate that we’ve been in the last couple of years, as we kind of realized that that was happening, we did start to pay a little bit more attention to that and embrace that, and I think that’s been really fun.”
The Coles made their local presence known during last week’s Dallas Art Fair when they welcomed visitors into their house to admire their collection.
