Spring Fling
TASTE OF THE ADRIATIC James Beard Award-winning chef Fabio Trabocchi has opened his third restaurant, Fiola Mare, in Washington Harbour. Inspired by the coastal…
Eye on Design
TROPICAL GETAWAY The Sanchaya—a luxe resort opening in June on the Indonesian island of Bintan—features sumptuous villas designed by Carl Almeida of P49 Deesign…
Design Celebrity Q & A with Thom Filicia
With a thriving design firm, fabric and furniture collections and careers in both TV and publishing, Thom Filicia is a busy man. On a…
On the Move
Donghia president and CEO Andrea Favaretto Rubelli came to Washington last month to visit his company’s light-filled new showroom in Cady’s Alley. With views…
Vintage Style
The up-and-coming H Street Corridor in DC’s Atlas District has just welcomed a new addition. Transplanted from U Street, the home-design mecca Foundry is…
Timeless Line
Celebrated local designer Barry Dixon has teamed with Charleston, South Carolina, furniture maker Avrett on a new collection of furniture and lighting. The line…
Build-Out Begins
Facing a September 30th move-out deadline as the building they have long occupied in Southwest DC transitions into its new role as the Museum…
Custom Collaboration
Thorsen Construction believes in collaboration. Launched in 1976 by Jim Thorsen and his son—current president Robert L. Thorsen—it’s now largely operated by the third…
Medical Marvel
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALAIN JARAMILLO Ten NIH institutes come together under one roof in the John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center (PNRC). The Bethesda facility—which…
The Great Outdoors
LIGHT & AIRY An airy silhouette characterizes Gloster’s Vista Collection of coated aluminum seating, created out of curved horizontal bands that let in the…
Luxe Style
Located on a street in Falls Church lined with large, recently constructed homes, a quaint, 1938 center-hall Colonial stands out. When the owners bought…
NKBA 2014 Awards
The 2014 Kitchen & Bath Design Awards, organized by the Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), welcomed 96 entries from…
Classic Contemporary
A circa-1980s kitchen in Baldwin, Maryland, needed an overhaul. The owners called in Paul Bentham of Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath to transform the outdated…
Minimalist Magic
When designer Deborah Kalkstein—owner of Contemporaria in DC’s Cady’s Alley—was ready to renovate her outdated Potomac kitchen, she envisioned a clean, modern space that would…
Understated Luxury
American Standard tapped DC designer Mary Douglas Drysdale to design a master bath for a Minneapolis couple that would offer functional space while conveying…
Beach Haven
The definition of sheer joy is a small child at play on the beach. Whether splashing in the surf, chasing sandpipers or digging fortiny…
Victorian Vibe
When Scarlett Breeding of Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects was tapped to remodel the spare bath in a Victorian house in Annapolis’s historic district, her…
Rustic Touch
When the owners of a bucolic property in McLean tapped architect Donald Lococo to design their new home, he took inspiration from an existing…
A Modern Mix
While renovating a Potomac, Maryland, home, CARNEMARK was tasked with modernizing the outmoded kitchen with a contemporary sensibility. Designer Jonas Carnemark focused first on…
Row House Remodel
When clients who purchased an abandoned town house on DC’s Embassy Row were ready to renovate, they called on Jennifer Gilmer of Jennifer Gilmer…
A Vision in White
For the master bath of an ambitious new Arlington home, Lauren Levant Bland of Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath took inspiration from the seamless…
Form + Function
For a family of four, an outdated, inefficient kitchen in Bethesda had become a drag. They contacted Hedy Shashaani of Jack Rosen Custom Kitchens…
Sleek + Spare Makeover
A client whose cramped, inconvenient kitchen was short of storage room approached Davida Rodriguez of Davida’s Kitchen & Tiles for a redesign. She was…
Stylish Symmetry
An inconvenient master bath in Oakton, Virginia, was defined by skimpy storage, cluttered surfaces and dated fixtures. The owners contacted Jonas Carnemark of CARNEMARK…
City Living
NFL linebacker D’Qwell Jackson’s career began at the University of Maryland, but it has taken him far afield—to the Cleveland Browns in 2006 and,…
English Garden
When architect Faith Nevins Hawks and her husband, John Hawks, couldn’t find a country house to restore, they decided to build one from scratch….
Historic Idyll
A couple had finally found their ideal country home: an 18th-century historic farmhouse in Orlean, Virginia. Though they wanted a rustic, serene setting in which…
Top Chef
When Home & Design last caught up with Mike Isabella at home, he had just finished a successful stint on Bravo’s “Top Chef ”…
Baltimore Glam
Baltimore designer Charlene Petersen and her New York City-bred client are young, vibrant—and certain about the trajectory they were on to meet and turn…
Capturing the Cosmos
At a local gathering of The Explorers Club, Washington painter Betsy Stewart chatted with a group of scientists. When they asked how her work…