Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
So I was walking up Walnut Street in Philadelphia, minding my own business, when WHAM, out of nowhere I’m blinded by a flash of green. Wallpaper? I thought. But no, it was tile – tile on the walls and on the ceiling of a fairly new chain of vegetarian restaurants called Maoz. According to its …
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 …
Is there anything more festive than a pink plexiglass-topped table? Restaurant designers have all the fun. These tables are the bright spots in an industrial space – jolts of color in a sea of neutrals. This is a perfect example of something I run into all the time, though: it’s a great idea, probably not …