Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Visible progress. I think that grey trim in the foyer is going to be beautiful w/ the yellow “silk” walls after all. I had a panic attack about it recently, but now that the paint is on, I’m feeling much better. This is as you enter the foyer. All of the paint is from Farrow …
Aaaah, the healing power of art. I mentioned that things weren’t exactly going my way last week: the silk incident…the lamp snatching…I probably shouldn’t have been so quick to complain, since there was some progress on the space itself: But things really turned around when I met with Zoe Myers of Heineman Myers Contemporary Art. …
Partly in anticipation of the scores of inquiries that will pour in after the Design House opens :) , my webmistress and I are updating and re-organizing the gallery section of the bossy color website. (Danna McCormick – of DLM Web Development – is amazing, by the way. She’s creative and capable but also extremely …
The silk incident, as it shall be known, took some of the wind out of my sails. It didn’t help that on the very same day I got the call asking me to, ah, re-evaluate my fabric proposal, the lamps I had chosen – the Brancusi-like ones – were sold out from under me. You …
This was a rough week for the Design House project, I must say. First, I reported earlier that Stroheim agreed to provide all of the fabric I requested. Which was huge, considering that I’m upholstering the walls and need 50 yards of silk. (Did I mention I’m upholstering the walls? I may not have. I …
Last night I dreamed that my Design House rug clashed with the wall-to-wall carpet beneath it. It was more of a nightmare, really. I know there could be worse things, but at the moment nothing springs to mind… The sleepless night is unwarranted, though: things are going great, knock wood. Got the excellent news that …
Dear kind-hearted decision-makers at Baker Knapp & Tubbs, I usually am a fairly dignified person, but…pleasepleaseplease may I please borrow one of your beautiful tables for the Design House this spring? Please? I saw the Rill Hall Table from the Bill Sofield Collection in your showroom today, and it was love at first sight. Your …