Design and architecture in our capital
This is a story of extremes — from the couture home collections of fashion houses Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein to the vintage warehouse settings of Bobo Intriguing Objects and Golden Oldies, which share a building a few blocks out from central High Point. Once again, Ralph Lauren makes us all long to be a [...]
WHAT a day. I have to reiterate from yesterday how heartening it is to see DC designers around every corner — it’s like we’ve taken over! Victoria Sanchez, Brad Weesner, Justine Sancho, Skip Sroka, David Mitchell (more on him in a sec), Patrick Sutton and Barry Dixon (again!), Ashley Spencer from Casart Coverings in Alexandria, [...]
I’ve had a big event and travel schedule lately, which is why I haven’t posted, but now I’m in High Point, surrounded by gorgeous new collections, so I thought I would share my favorite finds from our first day of pounding the pavement with the team from Merchandise Mart. When we first arrived, we saw [...]
This is the guest post I did for Ally at From the Right Bank, a delightful design blog I’ve been following for some time. I was so flattered she asked me to write about my favorite trends. Here is the original guest post, right here, which I’m reposting: First, thank you Ally for asking me [...]
I really wish I had known about Shadi and Bahram Sadighian while I was writing my “Where Did You Get That?” article in this month’s Washingtonian. Their Modern Rust line of furniture, which the couple builds from scrap wood is, as the name suggests, modern and rustic at the same time. The line came about [...]
One thing I’ve so enjoyed while writing this blog is finding out about artisans and craftspeople working throughout our region. Mitchell Yanosky in Baltimore is one them: They make custom wood and metal furnishings and accessories for designers and big businesses such as Under Armour, but they also have a name on their client list [...]
I have known about EF|LM for a long time, as top designers constantly use them as sources for projects, but I had never seen their showroom at the Washington Design Center until last week, when Showroom Manager Annie De Meo invited a small group of designers and moi for an elegant lunch. We all had [...]
I went downtown the other day to have coffee with Ruth DeHart, the showroom manager at Odegard in the Washington Design Center. She brought a square piece of wood, carved like a screen in the middle, along with her to Starbucks. And there was more where that came from too: I thought I was going [...]
I was flattered when Eleanor McKay, co-owner of Niermann Weeks, asked if she could write a guest post on this blog about their contributions to the Jefferson Hotel, which I already blogged about (right here), but I didn’t realize so much of the lighting and furniture came from this local source. I got a chance [...]
Don’t you think the decor looks largely the same when you walk into a Starbucks? It doesn’t matter what state or town you’re in — it all looks just the same. Unless you walk into one of a handful of stores where the company is reaching out to local artisans to build furniture, such as [...]
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 @ jennifer@sergentdesign.com