Q&A with Max Hirshfeld
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
I got to know Max through his wife, the stylist Nina Mason, who helped us style shoots for newspaper-insert magazines we published for HGTV in the early Aughts. He’s a stunning photographer, and I’ve always admired his work. Needless to say, I was following when I saw Max published Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime, a book inspired by a trip he made with his mother in 1993, back to Poland where she was raised—and where she and Max’s father were imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II. The author’s mother, Frania Hirshfeld, stands in Block 10, where she was once held at Auschwitz. “At t ..read more
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Q&A With Regan Billingsley
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
We’re coming up on a year of shutdown now, where we’ve all been forced to reckon with the walls that surround us day in and day out. I remember seeing the first news story — on March 13 last year, the day our lives officially retreated home — where I inferred that the design industry might actually do OK in the ensuing pandemic nightmare. So here’s a post on the sheer power of decorating — the ability to transform interior architecture rooted firmly in one era (the early 20th century), and adapt it to the fresh, energetic ideals of a young family who’s moved in nearly a century later. Designer ..read more
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The Capitol’s Beauty Endures
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
The hours bled from afternoon into night last Wednesday, as I remained transfixed by the television images of rioters laying siege to the U.S. Capitol, this majestic building I love so much, where I used to spend so much time as a Washington correspondent for a group of Florida newspapers in the late 90s and early Aughts. Photograph by Adam Brockett I listened to stories from reporters who described being pulled from the press gallery into the Senate chamber to shelter in place, and remembered my own time in that gallery and the House gallery on the other side, running up and down the stairs t ..read more
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Traveling by Design
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
Years ago, I remember saying to my mother-in-law — a true homebody who resisted flying, much less venturing past the grocery store — that she and her husband should travel some since they had both retired. No need, she said, when they could just as easily see faraway places on TV. Now, like or not, we’re all having to live like my dear late mother-in-law. Any travel these days has to be viewed rather than experienced in real life. That’s why this new book, Travel by Design, has such great timing. As we await new treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19, I suspect that anyone reading this introd ..read more
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Zoom to Kips Bay Dallas
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
I ADORE taking the train to New York in years that I’m able to visit the annual Kips Bay decorator show house. Sometimes I go with a friend, or sometimes alone — it’s like escaping into a fantasy land. This spring, of course, was different. No one went anywhere. But now that Kips Bay is expanding into different regions, the inaugural showhouse in Dallas has just opened on Friday, and we can go! It’s just $20 to get a virtual tour, which shows you so much more than the photos below. The chateau-like Kips Bay Dallas showhouse is at 5828 Woodland Drive, and it’s open now through October 25. Twent ..read more
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Black Designers in the DMV
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
What a strange and awful year it’s been. A reminder that the Civil Rights Movement continues on, today, on the National Mall as I write this. The protests all summer have resurrected painful personal memories for Black Americans everywhere — from small slights all the way up to assaults and the N word. Those of us who are white really need to stop and try to understand, to listen. So, I’ve been thinking for a long time. What can I do as an individual to advance the cause? Here’s what I know: I know the DC design community. You are my people. I’ve felt incredibly heavy since George Floyd died ..read more
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Guest Post: Brandi Wilkins
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
Lots of good things came from the process of compiling a list of the area’s talented Black designers last month — mainly, the ability to meet new people and see some seriously great work. One of my new acquaintances is Brandi Wilkins of Three Luxe Nine Interiors in Frederick, Maryland. We got to talking about the beautiful images on her site, and she agreed to do this guest post on a dazzling niche of a client’s dining room in Laytonsville, proving that a single strong vignette can absolutely make a room. I’ll let Brandi take it from here: Brandi Wilkins I’m so happy to have been invited to sh ..read more
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Black Designers in the DMV
DC by Design Blog
by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
What a strange and awful year it’s been. A reminder that the Civil Rights Movement continues on, today, on the National Mall as I write this. The protests all summer have resurrected painful personal memories for Black Americans everywhere — from small slights all the way up to assaults and the N word. Those of us who are white really need to stop and try to understand, to listen. So, I’ve been thinking for a long time. What can I do as an individual to advance the cause? Here’s what I know: I know the DC design community. You are my people. I’ve felt incredibly heavy since George Floyd died ..read more
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Serena & Lily is OPEN
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
Remember the song “Video Killed the Radio Star?” About the notion that radio would die since video — especially music video — had become the norm? Never happened. In fact, radio’s only grown now that anyone can start their own podcast. The same might be true of retailing, or at least I hope so. We’re seeing previously online-only shops like Serena & Lilly coming to a brick and mortar outpost near you. Today, it opened its 13th physical shop (and first in the Mid-Atlantic region) off Bethesda Row — and I was able to preview it last week. Photo by Stacy Zarin Goldberg Photo by Stacy Zarin Go ..read more
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Now on IG Live: DC Design Matters
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by Jennifer Sergent
3y ago
Following along in our series of how designers are managing through this pandemic, I had to devote an entire post to Iantha Carley Just like everyone else, we found ourselves with more time on our hands once the pandemic-fused shutdown began. Some of us have binged on NetFlix (don’t judge), others have read War & Peace (?!), and yet others have taken to Instagram Live to see friends and industry peers chat about life from the living room. To Iantha, these IG Live sessions seemed like a new kind of salon, only this time anyone was welcome. “I was always intrigued by Perle Mesta,” she says ..read more
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