IN THE BEGINNING Randall and Amy met at Pratt Institute, New York City, where they were both studying post graduate work in their respective fields, architecture and interior design. On and off the clock, they have been together ever since sharing their love for life and good design.
In 1980, after both finishing Bachelor degrees from other schools, Amy and Randy enter graduate studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY. Amy is in the Interior Design Program. Randy is in the Architecture School. It’s an edgy new world during the height of the NY disco era.
February 18, 1984, Randy and Amy are married in Tyler, Texas with 1,200 guests attending.
Westward Ho! Amy and Randy move to a new adventure out west, and arrive in Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 1, 1985. Amy opens Walton Interior Design.
1986, Purchased and began to renovate our first adobe house in Albuquerque, NM. It was a “Green Acres” experience.
Randy is licensed to practice architecture October 1987.
The offices of Walton & Walton Open.
The late 80’s and early 90’s was the Big Bend era for Walton & Walton. Randy was hired to design and ultimately build an adobe addition to the Gage Hotel in Marathon, TX. That lead to a renovation of the old Henry Trost hotel, the design and construction of an adobe ranch house on the Catto Gage Ranch, design of the Cenizo Grill bar and courtyard at the Gage Hotel , and the design of two adobe ranch houses at Chalk Draw and Bear Canyon. For one season Randy was the largest manufacturer of adobes in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona producing over 150,000.
For Christmas 1992, the vice presidents of LDDS/WorldCom, a long distance company in Jackson Mississippi, engaged Amy Walton to design a “Santa Fe” style office as a thank you to their boss Bernard J. Ebbers. The office had vigas and latillas, mesquite and pecan millwork, plaster walls and an operating “kiva” fireplace. In 1996 World Com purchased MCI and built their corporate campus outside of Jackson, Mississippi. Bernie Ebbers is pictured here on the cover of Business Week standing outside of his new office in front of a pair of mesquite, Spanish Colonial doors supplied by Amy Walton. He is now serving a life sentence for committing one of the largest corporate crimes in history.
Walton & Walton relocates offices and opens a retail outlet featuring decorative accessories and architectural items.
In 1994, Amy is asked to provide interior design services for the University of New Mexico’s Presidents Residence for Richard and Donna Peck. As it was to host many receptions for out of state guests, the interiors were used as an opportunity to introduce guests to historic New Mexican furnishings.
Like Murphy Brown’s painter Beldon, Trevor Lloyd Jones, an English special finisher, moved in with the Walton’s and lived in their home for over three years. He had been selected as the special finisher for the British government when it was refurbishing 10 Downing Street after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher retired. Trevor elected not to take that job but instead returned to New Mexico and go to work for our clients.
August 1996, our daughter Annalee Lewis Walton arrives.
1998 Walton and Walton purchases and renovates new offices near the medical district in Albuquerque.
From three old photos and a floor plan sketched on a napkin, Randy is asked to recreate a client’s boyhood home. The house, designed by renown Texas architect Henry Trost, had been demolished years before.
You may all go to Hell and I shall go to Texas” Davy Crockett. After working on a residence in Fort Worth in 2000 the Walton’s decide it would be a good town to raise their daughter in and relocate. They arrived a few weeks before 9-11.
The Holy Grail, Architectural Digest. Randy’s Project, Chalk Draw Ranch House adjacent to Big Bend National Park is published.
Amy produces the Rose Festival Tea for Queen Mary Lawson Walden, October 2010.
2013, Walton & Walton renovates an old Mustang repair shop into to new studio spaces, in the Cultural District.
One of the climatic scenes in the series finale of Breaking Bad is filmed in a chic Albuquerque house designed by Walton & Walton.