Back to Nature By the time a couple with three teenage daughters contacted Bethesda architect Jim Rill to design a renovation, they had spent almost 20 years living in a […]

Luxury Aloft Back in the 1950s when 14th Street was known as “Auto Row,” venerable prewar buildings housed ground-floor car dealerships with warehouses above them. The area has experienced a […]

French Connection Appreciating an older home requires a special eye. Good things often happen when its owners celebrate its idiosyncracies rather than forcing the home into a conventional mold.  Such […]

Urban Chic The renovation was like peeling an onion—when one problem was fixed, another problem would reveal itself. And on it went for more than a year after Jackie Perrins […]

Pure Modern Four years is a long time to spend creating the perfect home, but for Bruno Lassus, the design of his penthouse has been well worth the wait. This […]

Playful Pied-a-Terre designer Kelley Proxmire, saying “I’ve got something exciting for you.” She and her husband had just purchased a pied-à-terre in the Watergate complex and immediately asked Proxmire to […]