Design and architecture in our capital
Who wouldn’t love to work in a place that is surrounded by beauty? This week, I became lucky enough to do just that. I started work as the marketing director at The Washington Design Center — a place I have always loved to go to see the quality and craftsmanship in more than 50 showrooms on [...]
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 [...]
Since I could never afford to hire Barry Dixon to decorate my own house, I like to go hear him speak as often as possible, so his ideas will make me smarter. Barry was at the Washington Design Center the other day with Ann Maine, editor in chief of Traditional Home magazine, where he talked [...]
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 [...]
Watch out for these up-and-comers in 2010: Tricia Huntley of Huntley & Co., Sandra Meyers of Sandra Meyers Design Studio, and Julie Weber and Joe Ireland of J.D. Ireland Architecture and Design. The Washington Design Center named the three winners last week to cap off its Capital Design Days; they were chosen from among 12 [...]
It’s official: Barry Dixon‘s new line of fabrics for Vervain has officially launched — in the form of a feature in Traditional Home‘s latest issue, a launch party at Charlie Palmer Steak last night, and a presentation in the J. Lambeth Showroom of the Washington Design Center today. First, the mag: And last night, he [...]
By now, all of us are going stir-crazy at home, but it seems as if the snow might be melting a little bit, so by Saturday you might be able to get out and about. So head to the Washington Design Center between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for its semi-annual sample sale, where the [...]
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