Spring Fashion Finds COMING UP ROSES  Part of Dior’s spring 2016 ready-to-wear collection, this embroidered, off-white wool jacket is awash in billowing white cotton roses. Shown with black-patent calfskin slingbacks […]

The Sporting Life SMART SHIRT  Ralph Lauren’s new PoloTech shirt features a detachable Bluetooth device that connects with an iPhone or Apple Watch to clock real-time workout data. The device […]

Spring Dining Scene SHAW DEBUT  James Beard Award-winning chef Eric Ziebold has opened Kinship in Washington’s Shaw neighborhood to rave reviews. Serene interiors by DC designer Darryl Carter—his first foray […]

DESIGN SCENE The 2015 NARI/COTY Awards At a gala event on March 5, 2016, the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) Metro DC Chapter announced the 2015 Contractor of the […]

Bohemian Rhapsody Time has been good to this house on the Corsica River. After beginning its life in 1914 with a mere two rooms on the ground floor and a […]

Worlds Away For 30 years, Senator William Brock and his wife, Sandy, have gravitated to Annapolis for its welcoming brand of casual warmth. When they began going there in the […]

Al Fresco Style The owners of a 15-acre horse farm in Germantown who wanted the landscape to complement their traditional stone house hired designer Julie Patronik of McHale Landscape Design […]

Rural Escape Just 90 minutes away from his Bethesda home, architect Jordan Goldstein’s new weekend retreat might as well be a world apart. Nestled on 23 acres of pristine farmland in […]

History Reborn It’s hard to put a finger on what is most extraordinary about The Rest, a historic Tidewater property in Easton, Maryland, dating back to the pre-Civil War era. […]

Creative Vision Nestled among venerable estate homes in DC’s sought-after Kalorama neighborhood, a small, circa-1950s house had a lot to live up to. When a busy DC lawyer bought the […]

Fresh Frontier With its green pastures, horse farms and picturesque towns, rural Virginia reminds many travelers of the English countryside. That was the impression British hotelier Simon Lowe and his […]

Modern Metaphor Paring down possessions to simplify life is a goal that’s far easier to imagine than to achieve. But for one couple, newlyweds in their 70s, starting life together […]

Modern Aesthetic Clear and simple: A modern house requires a modern landscape. However, creating the exterior plan for this Bethesda residence was anything but. Mark Voelkel of Rolling Acres Landscape […]

Potomac Playground A formal garden in Potomac needed to reflect the style of the home—a grand, newly built residence designed to evoke a northern European manner. The house was under construction […]

MODERN On the Shelf  Designed by Pagnon et Pelhaître for Ligne Roset, Book&Look is an adaptable collection of square and rectangular shelving units that can be configured in myriad ways. […]

Applause Reading Room The new Slover Library anchors the revitalized downtown area near Norfolk’s waterfront. Its three volumes reflect vastly different eras and styles: the circa-1900 Classical Revivalist Seaboard Building, […]