Design and architecture in our capital
Tweet After 10 months of agonizing, searching, and meeting, meeting, meeting, the Washington Design Center showrooms finally seem to be coalescing around a new permanent location, smack in the middle of downtown DC. Welcome to Franklin Court at 1099 14th St. NW, where the Washington Design Center will have its own entrance on L Street. Move-in [...]
Tweet Contemporary design lovers in DC fondly remember Apartment Zero, when designer Douglas Burton and his partner, Christopher Ralston, had their storefront in Penn Quarter, and they were THE place to shop for all the latest cutting-edge home products coming from Europe, Scandinavia, Asia—and everywhere else where design is a religion. Apartment Zero is still [...]
Tweet I was psyched to see my articles on bath design and small-bath decorating appear in this month’s Washingtonian, with this stunning cover page showing a project by Bruce Wentworth: The story isn’t online yet, but I hope you get a chance to flip through it if you have a hard copy. In the [...]
Tweet Been to the post office this month? WELL, if you need to fill up on forever stamps, here’s a great new design that was just introduced with pictures of vintage seed packets—courtesy of one of our own local landscape photographers, George Brown. Aren’t these just gorgeous? The packets date back to the 1910s and [...]
Tweet Full disclosure: I’m writing this post having just agreed to do social media consulting for Barry Remley, the lovely owner of Salvations Architectural Furnishings in Silver Spring. And over the last few days, as I added photos to her new Houzz and Pinterest sites and also updated her Facebook page, I’ve gotten to see [...]
Tweet The DC Design House is ready for prime time! I was at the media preview the other day, and I was impressed by how each designer transformed a blank slate of new construction into a space full of personality. And unlike many show houses, this one doesn’t give you whiplash as you move from [...]
Tweet I’ve known about Transformer for a long time, and got to know more last fall when I wrote about them for DC Magazine, so it was such a treat this week to go to one of the homes to be on the organization’s annual Collector’s View series, which raises money so Transformer can continue [...]
Tweet I’ve always loved the chic interiors that DC designer Sally Steponkus creates, but no matter how mod she goes, she always knows how to sneak a little prep into the mix. Her method of choice? Leontine Linens. She favors the New Orleans bedding and linen company so much, in fact that she hosts trunk [...]
Tweet I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, since Room & Board offered a press tour to see the offerings from its new collection for 2013. The first thing that caught my eye was this instantly iconic emerald sofa; and how prescient of R&B, since surely they developed it before Pantone announced emerald [...]
Tweet I was excited to see my story on green building in the new April issue of Washingtonian, which landed on our doorstep earlier this week: I learned so much writing this story—I think I interviewed close to two dozen people trying to figure out the best angle. The bottom line: There are more [...]
Jennifer Sergent. Native Washingtonian. Former editor at Washington Spaces magazine and HGTV. Currently searching for – and writing about – DC’s design voices. Write to me @ jennifersergent@verizon.net