Q & A with Celebrity Designer Luca Missoni Luca Missoni is the son of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, who founded the Italian fashion house in 1953. He grew up playing […]

Hot Talent: Diverse Portfolio Will McGovern, who grew up outside of Pittsburgh, loved to comb the city’s architectural relics with his parents. He studied the history of art and architecture […]

Hot Talent: Global Viewpoint Darlene Molnar always wanted 
to be an interior designer. When she was growing up in New Jersey, she shared a room with her sister. “Her side […]

Hot Talent: Outside the Box J. Allen hails from Los Angeles, but crossed the continent in 1997 to attend Howard University. She never went back. “I liked the pace of […]

Design House Chic Nestled in the bucolic Northwest DC neighborhood of Spring Valley, this year’s DC Design House was a classic brick center-hall Colonial built in 1956. Twenty-three area design […]

Mod Squad European Edge Javier Martin Muriel, who founded the high-end contemporary Spanish furniture company Baltus, designs all its furniture—including the curvaceous Picasso chair, pictured here. Beech wood legs are […]

Coastal Refuge A 1.4-square-mile outpost on the Chesapeake Bay just north of Annapolis, Gibson Island has welcomed weekenders from the Baltimore-Washington area for decades. In the 1920s, the island’s developer […]

Collected Style Good “bones” convinced interior designer Martha Vicas and her husband Robert, a financial consultant, to buy a stately 1925 dwelling in the District’s Cleveland Park neighborhood. “We love […]

Belgian Holiday About halfway between the historic Belgian cities of Ghent and Bruges, a forested area flanks a bucolic, six-acre slice of pastureland. For 200 years, a narrow farmhouse occupied […]

East Meets West Passing through the front door of designer Zach Sherif’s Victorian row house in DC’s Bloomingdale neighborhood virtually transports visitors to a decidedly different time zone. An eclectic […]

Hot Talent: Change Artist Although Elizabeth Reich studied accounting in college, her first love was always design. After graduating and landing a job in sales, she recalls, “I spent all […]

Hot Talent: Perfect Choice Like many designers, Julie Dastvan loved rearranging her dollhouse for her Barbies when she was a child. Unlike most designers, however, she didn’t realize that, as […]

  BAZAAR - HIGH Style Lap of Luxury Maxalto’s plush Febo collection is noted for its elegant, completely upholstered form and prominent stitching at the seams. It includes a sofa, […]

Ranch House Reborn Attorneys Joann Neth and Ford Farabow, Jr., spent four years searching for just the right house. The problem wasn’t finding a house—it was finding a house on […]

Home Style Trend Setter The latest kitchen cabinetry emphasizes natural wood grains that add a touch of the exotic to kitchen décor. With its bold striations, the cabinetry line Alnochic […]

Indulgences - Toys The Ultimate Bed With Italian designer Edoardo Carlinon’s High Fidelity Canopy bed, or Hi-Can, you may never leave home again. It offers a state-of-the-art sound system, reading […]