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 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 It’s that time of year again! Show house season. Here is the nearly $15 million house on Foxhall Road that will be the site of the DC Design House: The organizers opened the house on Saturday for the Bare Bones Tour, and boy was it ever: white walls and trim everywhere. Designers are thrilled [...]
Tweet In a strange series of small-world and six-degrees-of-separation moments, I ended up at Catholic University yesterday, in the office of President John Garvey, staring at a desk that Abraham Lincoln had used in his Springfield, IL, law office before moving to Washington. The chain of events started a couple weeks ago, when I opened [...]
Tweet As I sit here looking out the window at the gray sky, with naked tree branches bending in the cold wind, I’m (naturally) thinking about where to go to get warm. But you don’t want to fly south with pasty skin, do you?? Time to head to the tanning salon: All Photography by Denis [...]
Tweet For the past couple years, I’ve been so immersed in the “to the trade” culture of interior design while working at the Washington Design Center that I always passed off retail design options as a much lesser form of, well, LIVING. Not that my house is filled with anything remotely trade or custom, of [...]
Tweet I don’t normally (or ever?) blog about fashion, but when the costumes are designed by interior designers using home goods products, it falls into my reach. I’ve been seeing a lot of great stuff coming out of the Corcoran recently, and this is no exception: in a partnership with the International Interior Design Association’s [...]
Tweet It’s so strange sometimes when events converge around one person or place, and all of a sudden you’re seeing them everywhere. Designer Elizabeth Reich of Jenkins Baer Associates in Baltimore is that person at the moment, and at first I didn’t even know it. I blogged a couple weeks ago about Darrell Dean and [...]
Tweet It’s so great when you meet someone in the course of doing business who becomes a really great personal friend in the course of life. Jeff Akseizer of Akseizer Design Group is one of these people. I met Jeff after I called him last year to ask if he would design a room in [...]
Tweet Sigh. We just spent our last weekend EVER at my Mom’s beach house in Fenwick Island, Del. Alas, she sold it, so we got to spend one final weekend to both pack up and say goodbye to the place we’ve been going for 10 years, since the boys were babies. I’ve been moping about [...]
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