A 158-year-old former working plantation 50 miles south of Dallas will be the setting July 18 and 19 for a sale of American and European antique furniture, vintage garden ornaments and slipcovers and bedding sewn from white linen.

"The look is comfortable elegance with timeworn style," says Carolyn Westbrook, who runs Carolyn Westbrook Home, a wholesale company that manufactures high-end textiles sold in the United States and Canada.

Like her stalls at annual antiques shows, including Round Top's Antiques Week, the plantation display mixes her new textiles with antique furniture, chandeliers and rugs. Decorative accessories include garden statuary and found architectural remnants.

She sets up vignettes for bedrooms, dining rooms and living rooms. Customers can buy the entire room setting or buy one piece at a time. The settings will be arranged in outbuildings and under canopies on the grounds of the plantation.

Ms. Westbrook's look recently was featured in Vintage Vavoom: Romantic Decorating With One-of-a-Kind Finds by the editors of Romantic Homes magazine (Clarkson Potter, $35) as well as in magazines including Country Living, Better Homes and Gardens and Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion.

Ms. Westbrook grew up in Dallas, where she accompanied her mother, a decorator, on interior design projects. She went on to start her own children's-wear business before launching a line of linen slipcovers. Fifteen years ago, she revamped the old plantation house in Chatfield and featured its decor in Carolyn Westbrook Home (Sterling/Chapelle, 2004).

Joining her on the plantation grounds will be Willow Nest Farms, of Burton, in Central Texas, and Tyler's Singleton Antiques, which specializes in pieces imported from Hungary.

Jessie Milligan is a Fort Worth freelance writer.

Summer Market

at the Oaks Plantation

Time: Begins with a catered preview party from 6 to 8 p.m. today. The sale continues from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Rain or shine.

Cost: Charitable donation of $5 per person for the preview. Reservations are not required. No admission is charged Saturday.

Where: The Oaks Plantation, 3043 NE County Road 1030, is between Ennis and Corsicana. From I-45, exit at Farm Road 1603, and follow signs 5 miles northeast to the plantation.

Directions and map: carolynwestbrookhome .com/upcomingevents.htm

Questions: 903-345-2502