What's New & Fabulous at the Washington Design Center
“Luxe” is a great way to describe the Missoni brand, from fashion to home to the stylish family who runs that iconic Italian company. How fitting, then, that Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine is sponsoring our Capital Design lecture on Tuesday with Luca Missoni, the middle son of company founders Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. Luca [...]
Any good designer — indeed, any keen reader of high-end shelter magazines — knows the Clarence House pedigree. The 50-year-old brand has created a standard for luxurious textiles, trims and wallpapers. That’s why Clarence House’s design director, Kazumi Yoshida, is giving fans a peek into the company’s creative process — in the form of this beautiful monograph: [...]
We are still fondly looking back on the wonderful event last week with Charlotte Moss, who produced the biggest crowd we’ve ever seen for a speaker at the WDC! Here are some great photographs from a day of events that started with Charlotte previewing her fabric collections at Fabricut and her new furniture line for [...]
Anyone whose eyes are open can tell you that Moroccan style is cropping up everywhere, whether in the form of a bright ikat coverlet on the bed or an ornate brass pendant illuminating a cozy nook. That’s why we are excited to meet Maryam Montague, who has become THE guru of Moroccan design after a [...]
Just as our showrooms vote each year to induct a new designer into its Hall of Fame as a sort of lifetime achievement award, they also recognize young designers who show tremendous talent and promise in the design industry, set securely on a track toward a career worth of the Hall of Fame. Last night [...]
Last night, we were honored to celebrate designer and architect Nestor Santa-Cruz on the completion of his design for the WDC’s Spring/Summer lobby, whcih will be in place through the end of September. (All party photography by Ben Droz) Back in January, around the same time we asked Nestor to do the lobby design, he [...]
We took a field trip yesterday to the press preview of this year’s DC Design House, which opens on Saturday, April 14 and runs through Sunday, May 13, and it was thrilling to see all the beautiful fabrics, furniture and lighting represented throughout the rooms. We couldn’t possibly list them all here, but will instead [...]
We are all eagerly looking forward to design celebrity Charlotte Moss’ arrival here on April 17, for the third in this year’s Capital Design lecture series. Charlotte will be speaking about her long career in design, making and breaking rules, and the tips and tricks she’s come to learn, which are also documented in her [...]
Brad Bloom, vice president of sales for Pollack Textiles, will be in town next week to introduce the new spring collection, called (appropriately) GORGEOUS. The Gorgeous Pure group by Pollack Pollack, which is carried through Donghia, has several new lines out this spring, and the entire collection is named for Gorgeous, above. It’s [...]
The building was packed again last week on March 20 — the first day of Spring, fittingly — when we held our panel discussion on outdoor decorating and entertaining, which included Kathleen Litchfield of Petro Design Build; Andre Wells of Events by Andre Wells, and Interior Designer Andrew Law. Showrooms were displaying their newest outdoor [...]
