Interior Design, February 2018

Dirk Denison Architects Sculpts an Artful Washington, D.C., Pad for a Tech Entrepreneur

This sleek Washington, D.C., apartment is a testimony to its thirtysomething owner’s exacting, and visionary, way of life. Begin with the native Californian’s decision 10 years ago to locate his start-up close to the nation’s seat of power, just as the urban revolution was bringing thousands of young tech-savvy residents to town. More recently, the entrepreneur bought himself this 2,200-square-foot two-level condominium in the Logan Circle neighborhood, where the hippest and most enterprising of the newcomers gathered, intent on turning the once stuffy capital of the free world into an uncommonly cosmopolitan place.

As his business grew, and his life became at once busier and more settled, the owner—an avid outdoorsman—wanted a home where life and work could merge, a retreat to counterbalance the grinding intensity of running a company. “The main thing was to create an oasis,” says Dirk Denison, the Chicago-based architect who collaborated closely with his detail-oriented client, down to the organization of each drawer. “Having a certain sense of order brings peace of mind.”

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