District Home Magazine Fall II October 2014 | Page 36

MEET THE dEsignEr

Deborah Kalkstein

Cool & classic
at Contemporaria

Tucked away in Cady’s Alley, an oasis for upscale and
contemporary design within Georgetown, Deborah
Kalkstein owns and operates her own designer furniture,
architecture and home décor store, Contemporaria.

eborah Kalkstein was raised and educated in Peru.
When it was time to pursue a career, she decided
to study architecture because her father did not
agree to send her to the Milan Polytechnico to
study industrial design, which was her dream career.
In addition, at the time in Peru, interior design was not a career but
a decorator course and she wanted her future profession to be
something deeper. Finally, she loved working at her uncle’s office that
was still one of the top contemporary architects in Lima. She worked
in his office doing all the interior work. Therefore, after graduation
from the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima, she looked for a way
to combine her love for furniture, interiors, and architecture. A store