This issue marks the 15th year that H&D has spotlighted up-and-coming designers who lead their own firms in DC, Maryland and Virginia. To celebrate the milestone, we gathered for a portrait shoot at Washington\'s iconic Kreeger Museum, designed in...

McLean and Tircuit Inspired to offer consumers high-end furniture, art and accessories typically available to the trade only, designer Sheryl McLean recently launched a boutique within the new studio of her firm, McLean and Tircuit, in Laurel?s...

BACK TO NATURE Woven from acrylic Perennials yarns, Samuel & Sons? Terrace outdoor passementerie collection of fringes, borders and tapes marries soft earth tones and organic materials. Find at Hines & Co. samuelandsons.com; hinescompany.com MADE...

?It is very simple,? Jorgelina Lopez comments about a few techniques she and Marco Duenas employ in their handcrafted lighting collections. Skilled in the arts of textile design and woodworking, the two turn flat materials into translucent...

Tired of their dark, dated kitchen, homeowners tapped designer and architect Charles Almonte to reimagine it. First, Almonte tackled issues of function and flow caused by a separation of the pantry and double ovens from the rest of the kitchen. ?We...

Before finding his passion in design, Christian Daw flipped condos, finished law school and embarked on a law career. He?d always designed his own interiors and helped friends with their homes?but it wasn?t until he started an Instagram page to...

Saudah Saleem, who hails from Brooklyn, has always been in love with fashion, history and art. After marrying and moving to Baltimore, she transitioned from a government job to a career in interior design. ?I longed for the city life I?d left and...

Michelle Tremont Boyd brings a wealth of experience to her growing design firm, launched in 2020. She followed a degree in architecture from Syracuse University with six years at Studio Sofield, a prestigious New York architectural design firm where...

Family heirlooms, art and antiques filled Whitney Wood?s childhood home in Charlottesville. ?Thinking back,? he recalls, ?I was always rearranging my room.? So it wasn?t a stretch when, right out of high school, he landed a job with Middleburg...

Soon after a couple moved into a Kalorama apartment, they asked Jonas Carnemark to replace their bulky whirlpool tub with a new shower. But as they discussed taking the 1990s-era primary bath in a fresh, modern direction, the project quickly morphed...

During their complete overhaul of a 1912 Mount Pleasant row house, architect Christopher Snowber and interior designer Kate Abt bridged old and new in its reimagined primary bath. They gutted and slightly expanded the cramped existing lavatory...

A business degree propelled Anne Pulliam into a marketing career, but she felt unfulfilled. ?I?m a creative person and it didn?t feel like the right fit,? she admits. Pulliam loved décor and ?house-stalking??peering into the windows of beautiful...

While shopping for a small, historic home, empty nesters hailing from Reston came upon the exact opposite?and were smitten. The sprawling stone dwelling on 100 rolling acres in Leesburg looked like it had always been there, but was actually built in...

Byron Risdon traces his earliest design inspirations not to the shelter magazines his mother brought home, but to publications filled with building schematics. Now, those were something special. ?I liked home-planning books,? recalls the designer....

Exteta Sunset Sun Lounger Designed by Paola Navone for Exteta, the Sunset Sun Lounger is made of Sapelli mahogany and features a padded fixed section and a reclining backrest. It?s available in four finishes and a selection of...

COASTAL HAVEN Alexandria designer Lynn Tanger and her family were looking for a relaxed retreat where they could unplug from city life when they fell for a fixer-upper: an 800-square-foot, 1950s cottage on the Little Choptank River in Cambridge,...