Design and architecture in our capital
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 [...]
It’s so nice to see House Beautiful celebrating the beauties of wood in its current issue. Too bad David Iatesta wasn’t exhibit No. 1, but we’ll celebrate his Stephensville, MD, company right here. He was at the Holly Hunt showroom at the Washington Design Center last week, describing the painstaking process by which his eponymous [...]
I first swooned over the Hallings Secretary by Thomas O’Brien when I saw it in the Hickory Chair showroom in High Point, NC, when it was introduced at the International Home Furnishings Market several years ago. But as I was going back through my old files, I realized that it’s cropped up no fewer than [...]
OK, let’s start off with the vision of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams’ Dr. Pitt sectional that everyone sees when they walk into one of its stores: “Our modern interpretation of a disco-era classic,” the catalogue says. It’s almost always portrayed in washable cotton slipcovers — kid, pet, and everyone-else friendly. But a Bethesda family [...]
It was with a heavy sigh that, several months ago, I sent an email to my husband with this link to the perfect nesting tables for our newly renovated basement. “Sigh” was on the subject line, because I knew we were never going to shell out $2,100 for these tables, even though they were designed [...]
Pop quiz: Where do DC’s best designers, including Jose Solis Betancourt, Skip Sroka, Michael Roberson, and Darryl Carter, turn for ultra cool furnishings? They go to Atlanta, where Michelle Bradley of Bradley Hughes has much to offer. “Thank God I wasn’t good at academics,” Bradley says. “I’m so lucky I love what I do.” But [...]
My favorite finds from this year’s Washington Antiques Show.
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