Vervain Fabrics Featured in Traditional Home Magazine We're excited to see our new wallcovering collection for @vervainfabrics featured in the April issue of @traditionalhome! We love these new designs and are truly grateful to the editors for sharing them.
Chateau Chic in North Carolina Located in a wooded glen on the edge of a picturesque lake in North Carolina, this chateau-style home was ready for interior design. The owners had collected a warehouse full of architectural antiques from France. Always ready for a challenge, Barry agreed to the project, [...]
Modern Mix in Chevy Chase, Maryland When the owners of this elegant, 20,000 square-foot home in Chevy Chase contacted Barry, the family requested something classic, but with old-world patina and sophistication. Barry, inspired by a Lutyens Arts and Crafts country house in England, began by poring over the blueprints with [...]
Summer Memories on the Delaware Shore After purchasing an oceanfront lot on the Delaware shore, these clients contacted Barry, requesting: an informal summer retreat that could withstand not only the water and sand, but also four active children and their friends, two Hungarian Vizslas, and frequent guests. The owners wanted [...]
Sky High Living in Chicago This high-rise with sweeping views of the city and Lake Michigan is located on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Barry designed a comfortable pied-à-terre that was warm and elegant and belied the fact it was a new apartment in a modern building. Barry used sumptuous fabrics to [...]
Coming Home to Elway Hall Childhood, the experts say, is what shapes our taste as adults, and Barry readily admits this holds true for him. Raised in a gracious Southern manor and historic residences around the world, he grew up with tall ceilings, sweeping staircases, wide moldings, claw-foot tubs, and [...]
New Barry Dixon Wallcoverings from Vervain We're so excited! Our new book of wall coverings for @vervainfabrics, their first, is out...and coming to a showroom near you. Prints and textures, metallics and wovens, matte and shimmering finishes...utilizing cork, linen, rice paper, recycled sisal, even wool flocking – are bound between the oversized covers. [...]
New and Old on the Potomac River Built alongside the Potomac River, this newly constructed home aptly reflects the owners' personalities — eclectic and down-to-earth, mixing classic and modern, new and old. Barry and the owners began by traveling together on buying trips across the country [and to Europe] searching [...]
Lush Loft in Tribeca Soon after moving to New York in the early 1990s, a major television producer purchased a quintessential Manhattan residence – a loft. The loft needed to be designed and decorated for frequent entertaining. So the owner called Barry, a childhood friend who had already designed two [...]
Cotswolds Charm in Virginia The Cotswolds is one of the loveliest areas of England. Narrow, hedge-lined lanes wind through picturesque villages of small thatched cottages, making it sometimes hard to believe you are in the twenty-first century. Such idyllic countryside is what inspired this 5.000-square-foot home in eastern Virginia. The [...]