Interior designer Bill Stubbs is flying high and well he should be. His Moment of Luxury television series, currently seen on PBS stations across the country, is going even bigger. Stubbs has signed a partnership agreement with producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) and the push is on to take the program internationally.

Stubbs' charming Texas accent and signature dapper look will soon be familiar to television viewers in Sweden, Poland, South Africa, Vietnam and Malaysia, proving that the good life has cross-cultural and cross-continental appeal. He has more than two dozen 30-minute new episodes in the can for national and international distribution. Plans are in the works with Burnett, Stubbs said over lunch at La Griglia, to evolve the show into several different versions.

Next up on the Moment of Luxury itinerary are China, Hong Kong, Macau, Warsaw, Versailles and Venice. The schedule is enough to make your head and Stubbs' spin.

"It's been amazing, interesting to become a television personality at my age," he said. "But I still want to be an interior designer."

Stubbs exercised his brand on national television last spring on several episodes of the Real Housewives of New York City as interior designer for Countess LuAnn de Lesseps. He was something of a hit and was offered a Bravo opportunity. He declined.

His current design projects include homes in Houston, San Antonio and Milwaukee.

Way under the radar

When famed film director Francis Ford Coppola hosted a wine dinner at Mo's . . . A Place for Steaks earlier this week, you would have thought it was a G7 summit. No photos. No recordings. No press. No guest list released. No chatting up Coppola.

He was in town for a few hours on Tuesday promoting his Coppola label at the dinner for wine buyers. Coppola and company took over Mo's main dining room, transforming the front half by the windows into a private lounge complete with leather sofas and cocktail tables. In the back half of the dining room, the 30 or so guests were seated at one long table. "It truly looked fabulous," we were told by an observer in the restaurant that night.

Tuesday night regulars had dinner in the lounge, which was reconfigured as a dining room. Word was that that looked pretty good as well.

Big smiles for big winners

That would be the owners of Houston-based Frankel Building Group, who have recently garnered 14 honors between the Greater Houston Builders Association's "2010 Best Grand Award" presentations and the Texas Association of Builders "2010 Star Awards."

Putting major smiles on the faces of company principals Scott Frankel and Kevin Frankel is their win of the Custom Building Grand Award from GHBA. Add applause for the master bath at 10 Broadwater Court in The Woodlands, which received top honors for Frankel from both the GHBA and TAB in the master bathroom category in houses costing less than $1 million.

Frankel is also a finalist for the TAB Grand Award for Builder of the Year. The winner will be named Oct. 15.

Katie Decker on a roll

Houston-based jewelry designer Katie Decker, the 22-year-old success, has signed a contract for Fragments in New York, which will add her line to its house of notable jewelry designers including Gurhan, Arman and Nam Cho. This new showroom presence for the Texas A&M grad is a major milestone for the up-and-coming Decker.

Sight 'ems

David Solomon and Blake Tart III lunching at La Griglia, at another table the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Amy Purvis lunched with Meredith Long & Co.'s Martha Long.