Going Green This fall, Gambrills, Maryland, makes way for a brand new home that is as eco-friendly as it is philanthropic.  The brainchild of builder Michael Baldwin, the 7,000-square-foot Maryland […]

Two-Tone Tile Marble Systems has launched a new line of decorative tile designs by the Sara Baldwin Design Studio. Pictured here, Vildiz is a two-tone design that integrates the Skyline […]

Lighting the Way Under Glass Tracy Glover’s Silver Lining chandelier, which recently debuted at the 2012 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, showcases handblown glass elements suspended on stainless-steel cable strands. Illuminated […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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, […]