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WHERE
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design destination
14TH STREET
BY KAREN WATKINS
Washington’s 14th Street Corridor has undergone several transformations since its inception: A music hub in the 1920s, it morphed
into “Auto Row” in the 1950s. It has since
experienced a resurgence of hip. Along with
boutiques, bistros and coffeehouses, the
historic area boasts a bustling home furnishings scene, which offers urban, cutting-edge
design as well as classic, contemporary comfort. The big news is that many tenants of the
Washington Design Center—who lost their
leases when the building in Southwest DC was
sold in 2012—are moving en masse to the
Franklin Court Building on 14th and L Streets
in spring 2014. Here’s a rundown of where
to shop in the neighborhood.
WASHINGTON
DESIGN CENTER
As of early October 2013, 21
showrooms had signed leases
in the building that will officially become Washington’s new
Design Center. According to
Ann Lambeth of J. Lambeth &
Co., a member of the steering
committee representing the tenants, they have yet to determine
what kind of access consumers
will have to the showrooms,
many of which have previously
been trade-only. She expects
the first tenants to move in by
spring 2014 with full occupancy
by the fall.
The following showrooms will
open new locations in the Center
on the second, third and fourth
floors: AmericanEye; ARC-COM
Fabrics, Inc.; Century Furniture;
Cowton & Tout; Doris Leslie Blau;
Duralee Fabrics; Fabricut at J.
Lambeth; Galleria Carpets & Rugs;
Hines & Co.; Holland & Sherry;
Holly Hunt; J. Lambeth & Co.;
Kravet/Lee Jofa/Brunschwig & Fils;
Michael-Cleary, LLC; Osborne &
Little, Inc.; Pindler & Pindler, Inc.;
Robert Allen; Romo; Scalamandré;
Schumacher and Stark. Niermann
Weeks will be represented by
J. Lambeth and Edward Ferrell
+ Lewis Mittman furniture will
be sold through Hines.
1099 L Street, NW.
GOODWOOD
Expect to find the unexpected
at GoodWood. Opened in 1994,
the shop specializes in 19th-century American furnishings, with
fun surprises to be found among
the wooden bookcases, farm
tables and leather chesterfields.
Owner Anna Kahoe, a pioneer
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