Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Today is the one-month anniversary of the opening of Ava’s in St. Michaels, MD. Hooray! I have two selfish reasons to root for its success: first, St. Michaels desperately needs an inexpensive-but-excellent restaurant with a grown-up atmosphere (wine, lovely setting) and child-friendly practicality (crayons in a pinch). Second, I helped them choose the colors for …
I almost licked a table on Thursday. I pulled back at the last minute, but it was a close call. It all began with a simple quest for ice cream. Ridiculous, since I don’t even like ice cream very much, but it was a gorgeous evening, and dinner at the dive-y Great Wall – Szechuan …
I’ve been to the Wolfsonian before, but this time the intimacy and cleverness of the shop/cafe really struck me. First of all, how many retail spaces show Louise Brooks movies on a large screen? This building was originally a storage facility. Sounds like the scale would be large, doesn’t it? But it’s not, and that’s …