PRIVATE TOUR
“She told me that all her friends go to
exotic places,” Marshall recalls, “and I
said, ‘Don’t worry, Debi, I’ll create your
own personal resort.’”
Together with his business partner,
Paola Moya, and Deborah Kalkstein,
who owns Georgetown’s Contemporaria
furniture showroom, he went heavily into
natural and industrial materials and a relentlessly neutral palette. “Our style is not
about the blue room or the green room,”
says Marshall. “It’s about a continuity of
steel, glass, wood and flagstone. The art
is its own character. There is an energy
between art and architecture.”
It is here that Lee—who studied international politics at Brown University, earned
dual Harvard graduate degrees in public
policy and law, and left Steptoe & Johnson
in the 1980s for BET—can kick back in her
private theater, wine-tasting room and hot
tub, or read a book on a secluded terrace.
But it is in her beloved master suite facing
Rock Creek Park—which she calls her “tree
house”—where the busy executive unwinds
completely. Facing a wall of windows split by
a stone-clad fireplace, her bed seems to float
toward the center of the room. “It’s the only
place it could go so that I could have closets
to die for behind it,” she says. The adjoining
dressing room has a center island and three
walls of Poliform closets for storing Lee’s
An open stairway overlooks the living room (top, left). The informal bar (top) is close enough
for conversation with those at the dining table. To the right is the professional kitchen
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