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Diana Firth is serves on the Event Commitee of Girls on the Run®, Washington, DC Chapter. Girls on the Run® is a life-changing, experiential learning programs for girls age eight to thirteen years old. The programs combine training for a 3.1 mile running event with self-esteem enhancing, uplifting workouts. The goals of the programs are to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development.

freshhome features a robust website for Interior Design ideas and inspiration and the latest trends in Archeticture. Find interesting articles on all aspects of living and design.

Following 4 years in South East Asia, owner Christopher Reiter created Muléh (to come home in Javanese) in 1999 to reflect the harmonious subtleties of Asian modern interiors. Design talents with an aesthetic focusing on clean lines with rich texture are featured here. Rapidly renewable organic materials used in many pieces yield a warmer contemporary feel. Traditional crafts of local artisans are applied and therefore restored in producing these modern designs.

In 1989 when the economy was unstable, he and his partner, Bob Williams, naively created The Mitchell Gold Co. Since then, despite tough economic times and upheaval in the furniture industry, sales have reached in excess of $100 million. The combination of Gold's years of marketing experience with Williams' talents as art director set the course for Mitchell Gold and changed the furniture industry.One of their earliest ideas, "Relaxed Design," was based on trends they saw in the apparel industry.

When you engage in the Waterworks experience, you gain access to a rich heritage of expertise, service and innovation unlike any other. In 1925, Samuel Grogins started a plumbing supply business in Danbury, Connecticut devoted to the best mechanical offerings available. In 1978, Sam’s daughter, Barbara, and her husband Robert Sallick set out to create a revolution in bathing, bringing incredible visual appeal and impeccable performance to what had often been an overlooked and underserved area of the home.

Mark, who has always loved Art Deco and Mid Century furniture and has collected a house full of it over the years, knows that there are many others who love vintage furniture and want to find it at affordable prices. With his good eye for period pieces as many customers have noted, and Ed's knowledge of furniture and design, the two started buying select vintage furniture, particularly Mid Century, . . . and later offering many of the pieces for sale on Craigslist and at Washington DC's Eastern Market. People who love older furniture quickly began to patronize their budding business and the two even offered to look for pieces at clients' request. Months later the furniture collection was getting bigger and bigger and thus, Hunted House was born!

Based in Washington, DC with frequent engagements in New York, V'mage Concept has a professional team of stylists, dressers, makeup artists, seamstresses and tailors, and more. The concept was very simple; Victor’s Image embodied four elements of entertainment, interior design, health, and your career to create your image. At V’mage Concept, "Image is a lifestyle".

Quinn's Auction Galleries is a full service auction and estate services company. We have a range of specialties, from fine art & antiques, to rare books & maps.

RCKNDY (pronounced rock candy) is a one stop resource to creating a new look for your home or office. We specialize in modern decor with an emphasis scaled to condo and apartment living. RCKNDY is the tastiest home decor store to hit the nation’s capital. A welcome relief to the discerning DC customer hungry for new and unique furnishings for the home and office. From bazaars and artist’s lofts, to small design firms and international trade fairs, RCKNDY scours the globe to find the best in

modern design the world has to offer.

Timeless design. Authentic handcraftsmanship. Serious comfort. When it comes to furniture, we believe quality and style should always go hand in hand. What else do we believe in? Partnering with small, family-owned companies that share our commitment to quality and sustainability. Offering a collection of furniture that's 80 percent American made. And providing the kind of service we'd want ourselves if we were making important decisions

about our homes.

The boutique, Le Village Marché, (the village shop) is located just outside Washington, D.C., in the heart of Arlington, Virginia’s newly revitalized Shirlington Village. A unique blend of the old and the new, the rustic and the refined, Angela has created an impressive collection of vintage home décor and chic accessories that reflect some of her inspiration of Paris. The store opened March 2007.

Set in a towering, light-filled space — which looks more like an antique showroom than a paper shop — the store sells a noteworthy roster of cards and stationery, including Snow & Graham, Orla Kiely, Waste Not Paper, Elum, and Oblation. Using her flea market prowess, Phelps assembled props like an old factory lunch table (with intact stools), a railroad cart, vintage cameras, and farm tables to pimp her wares. Cards mounted on reclaimed doors evoke a museum display.