Tina Coplan

1 month ago | homeanddesign.com | Tina Coplan

As she shapes stoneware, Catherine Satterlee unearths the many facets of clayWhile an undergrad taking classes in clay at Bennington College, Catherine Satterlee puzzled over a professor’s words. “I think ceramics for you is a safe harbor,” the adviser told her a half-century ago. In the decades since, Satterlee has tested the waters as an art teacher, graphic designer, painter and member of the Hirshhorn Museum’s exhibitions staff.

Nov 11, 2024 | homeanddesign.com | Tina Coplan

Visiting her family’s second home on the Chesapeake Bay years ago, Shirley Gromen loved to go fishing with her dad. Now she illustrates those fish, along with regional birds and plants, on wondrous black-and-white porcelains. Mugs, vases, plates and platters are incised with her drawings of swimming crabs and striped bass, or perhaps a pelican pausing among native grasses. Enhancing the tactile surface of her ceramics, Gromen applies a sgraffito technique.

Aug 23, 2024 | homeanddesign.com | Tina Coplan

Trey Jones doesn’t like to waste anything. So when he watched cabinetmakers tossing out plywood scraps in the workshop they all share in Alexandria, he started saving odd pieces, believing one day he’d know what to do with them. Just six months later, that day came. While visiting a client, the furniture-maker spotted a Japanese Nerikomi vase, its patterns formed of layered and sliced clays. “I saw that and it clicked,” he says.

Aug 1, 2024 | homeanddesign.com | Tina Coplan |Catherine Funkhouser |Michelle Brunner |Julie Sanders

Time Travel Its location might be beside any sleepy harbor. A place where the sound of silence is broken only by distant foghorns, calling seagulls or sailboat halyards clanking in the wind. […] Fresh Take A timeworn, vintage home in Cleveland Park’s historic district needed significant TLC—and a keen eye. Designer Martha Vicas, who was searching for new digs of her own, eagerly stepped up.

Jul 5, 2024 | homeanddesign.com | Tina Coplan |Roger Davies

Its location might be beside any sleepy harbor. A place where the sound of silence is broken only by distant foghorns, calling seagulls or sailboat halyards clanking in the wind. Yet the town house where interior designer Patrick Sutton and his wife Tracy reside stands just blocks from the heart of Baltimore’s animated Fells Point. It’s just a water’s bend away from the luxe Sagamore Pendry Hotel, an early-20th-century property Sutton recast for modern sojourns.