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Cate Dunning Turns Her Beloved Late Grandmother’s House Into Her Dream Family Home
WE CALL IT THE URBAN family homestead,” Cate Dunning says of the house she now shares with her husband, Chris, and daughter, Mollie. “Whenever there’s a holiday, or any event, everyone is in our house.” That tradition dates back to long before the home belonged to Dunning, an interior designer by trade and cofounder of Atlanta design firm GordonDunning. The story begins in 1955, when her maternal grandparents moved from Maine to Decatur, Georgia, and settled into “773,” a loving nod to the “homestead’s” address. They raised four children in the house, and, later, it was a hub for extended family. “We grew up going there all the time,” says…
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A Toy Designer Turns a Glover Park Home Into a Kid-Friendly, Colorful Escape
“Look Inside My Home” is our series where we peek into the homes of Washingtonians. Want your house featured? Email [email protected]. Chloe Varelidi is the CEO and founder of Follies, a design-oriented line of children’s toys, as well as the founder of Humans Who Play, a design studio that focuses on play, education, and technology. She lives with her husband, Francesco, and her two children, Nefeli and Leonidas, in a three-bedroom, three-bath, contemporary-style Glover Park home. The couple purchased the home about a year ago, and have been updating the place with a relaxed, Scandinavian-inspired feel. Since Varelidi has been a play designer for over a decade—and was an architect…
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Mystery vase that sat in UK family’s kitchen turns out to be Qing-dynasty treasure worth $1.5 million
A U.K. family recently discovered that a decorative vase in their kitchen is actually a rare Chinese artifact now worth more than a million dollars. On May 18, the 2-foot-tall vase was sold by U.K. auctioneer Dreweatts for £1.2 million (approximately $1.5 million). With its striking spherical shape, the blue-glazed vase is referred to as a “heavenly globe vase” (“tianqiuping” in Chinese) and features gold and silver elements. Its intricate markings reportedly indicate that it was made for the court of the Qianlong Emperor in the 1700s. Mark Newstead, a specialist consultant at Dreweatts for Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, explained to Dreweatts that the clouds, cranes, fans, flutes…
