David Iatesta’s Artistry

David Iatesta posed with his rescue beagle, Sparky, on top of a pile of driftwood he collected from the banks of the Chesapeake Bay for a magazine feature I wrote about him last year.

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 [...]

A Delightful Evening with Textile Designer Sandra Jordan

Sandra Joran, sitting on Mary's Knoll sofa, which she covered in Jordan's alpaca. The pillows and window treatments are also her's. And this setting is all in Mary's kitchen -- if only!

I was happy enough when Mary Douglas Drysdale invited me to a small dinner party on Friday — just a few women eating by the fire, who could pass that up? But it turned out that Mary used the evening to introduce us to Sandra Jordan, a textile designer with Peruvian roots whose alpaca fabrics [...]

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