Design and architecture in our capital
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 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 For a while, I’ve been looking for an excuse to blog about Billet Collins. I see their decorative paining work in so many high-end design projects, masterfully done: So I was thrilled to go see their open house last Friday, held at Barbara Billet Collins’ home in Germantown, MD, where I was greeted [...]
Tweet I was planning on doing a general post on the upcoming FotoWeekDC Nov. 9-18, the brainchild of the engaging and ever-charming Theo Adamstein, with whom I’ve had the great pleasure of working with in the past. But then I glommed on to the gallery page for Uncover/Discover, an event dedicated to, well, uncovering and [...]
Tweet Is it me, or does it seem like all the chi-chi designers today are going ever-more modern? Or that the hot art shows seem to be so cutting edge? Would those of us who admit we like more traditional fare, say, 19th- and early 20th-century works, seem dated? Let’s take a different approach. Let’s call [...]
Tweet If you haven’t already noticed from the title of this blog, I’m a nut for all things beautiful in DC — especially when it comes to depictions of our favorite landmarks. I never get sick of them. Even after living here my whole life, I still catch my breath when I go downtown and [...]
Tweet When I was an editor at Washington Spaces, I was fortunate to meet Jim van Sweden of the renowned Oehme van Sweden landscape architecture firm — he is known for the “new american garden” aesthetic, and you can see the firm’s work notably at the Martin Luther King Jr. and World War II memorials [...]
Tweet I first noticed them when I was coming up the escalator at the Farragut West Metro stop with my son’s fourth-grade class on a field trip to Decatur House in February — these perforated metallic discs that glowed even in the daylight. They stopped me in my tracks, they were so beautiful. I couldn’t [...]
Tweet I was sad to see an obituary in the Washington Post this morning about longtime news photographer James Atherton. I never knew him personally, but my godfather, who for decades served as superintendent of the U.S. Senate Press Photographer’s Gallery, did know him quite well, so I’ve always heard stories about him. Since my [...]
Tweet As we all wait to see what Hurricane Earl will do to our beaches today, I want to send you off on the holiday weekend with this stunning — and stormy — shot of the Washington Monument that a former Washington Spaces photo intern, Matthew Dandy, shot from atop the W Hotel downtown. Happy [...]
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