Zoe Feldman Design

“We wanted the space to feel layered, curated — a sort of refined maximalism,” says Washington, D.C.–based designer Zoe Feldman describing her eponymous firm’s scheme for the entertaining rooms of a home in the city’s Spring Valley neighborhood. “Standing in the dining room, you experience the tented, striped wallpaper — it’s on the ceiling, too! — then the entry hall’s floral William Morris print, followed by the living room’s pop of glossy chartreuse.” Classic furnishings (all found on 1stDibs) ground this chain of buzzing pattern and color. There’s the duo of Biedermeier birch chairs flanking the dining room doorway, the foyer’s vintage Italian ebonized-oak and inlaid-bone center table and large faux-tortoiseshell mirror and the living room’s pairing of an exuberantly gilded Hollywood Regency leaf-carved table with a brass mid-century Chiavarina chair. Says Feldman, “The pieces feel worldly, collected, substantial and daring and speak to the sophisticated, adventurous person who lives here.”