Design and architecture in our capital
I was thrilled to get an invitation this year to the opening party of the annual Washington Winter Show, which kicks off Friday and runs through Sunday. What I really loved about this antique show, without even looking at all my photos, is that is wasn’t a mass of BROWN STUFF. You know, the 200-year-old [...]
I didn’t first see Restoration Hardware’s new 616-page fall catalog. I heard it. In the form of my 6-year-old, groaning as he tried to yank it out of our mailbox. It wasn’t cooperating. I had to pull it out for him, it was so heavy. And my God, I thought, what on Earth?? One can’t [...]
I don’t know where this comes from, but I have SUCH a thing for gorgeous quilts. When we were preparing the gift guide for Washington Spaces a couple years ago, I went searching for the perfect quilt, and found a delightful hole in the wall in Sperryville, VA. And thanks to Jennifer Bolger, who sent [...]
I was at the beach over the weekend, and had a chance to visit the owners of the best little home shop on the Delaware shore: Carolina Street, which I have mentioned briefly in a previous post. Dee Dee and Paul Phillips have lived in Fenwick for-EVER, and they regaled me with stories about old [...]
Got to hand it to Sandy Steele — she’s persistent in the sweetest way! For months she’s been asking me to drive out to Frederick, MD, to see her new shop, The Loft at Antique Imports. Well, I finally went out there, and I CAN’T BELIEVE I didn’t go sooner. Basically, she takes high-end custom [...]
I had the pleasure of spending the morning at the Chevy Chase DC home of Loi Thai, the owner of Tone on Tone, the Bethesda shop known for its painted Swedish antiques. Ever since I saw a story about his house in The Washington Post last year (right after he and partner Thomas Troeschel moved [...]
Whew — it’s oppressively hot out there today. That’s when I start dreaming of large bodies of water, such as the Severn River, which forms Darryl Savage’s backyard near Annapolis. Darryl owns DHS Designs in Queenstown, very close to the outlets at the 50/301 split that we all pass on the way to the beach. [...]
Apologies for my prolonged absense — I’ve been blessed with an abundance of freelance assignments, which have taken precedence this week. But in the course of reporting one of my stories, I was lucky enough to meet Jeff Albert, the owner of Decorium in Old Town Alexandria. I drove there last week to meet Jeff [...]
I don’t normally write about sales, because there are so many of them, but I couldn’t resist passing along news about this one, which I saw on My Notting Hill today. Michele’s friend Lori, a home stager, is downsizing to move to Georgetown, and she is getting together with her friends to have a HUGE TAG [...]
Spring cleaning is in the air, because I finally went through the huge box of press kits I collected last fall in High Point, which means those new lines are now in stores. There’s no real theme to any of this — just stuff I really like, starting with bursts of orange from Global Views: [...]
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