Sisters Griffith Roberts Roth (left) and Blythe Roberts McNerney share a lifelong love of interiors and a long-held imaginative and prescient of working a enterprise collectively. Earlier than launching Griffith Blythe Interiors in 2016, they adopted related trajectories, each finding out on the New York Faculty of Inside Design and dealing beneath luminaries corresponding to Bunny Williams and Celerie Kemble (Griffith) and Martha Stewart (Blythe). Each finally married and returned to the Washington space, having spent their childhood in McLean and Alexandria.
The designers deliver “a colourful, conventional eye” to their work, says Blythe. “Lots of DC design is impartial, so we had been excited to place our stamp on antiques, which we grew up with and love, and our love of coloration and sample.”
Griffith Blythe Interiors presently has purchasers in Florida, Nantucket, and New York, in addition to DC. In 2020, the duo launched Gatopard, a web-based retailer with desk linen of their very own design. “Sooner or later we wish to open a customized linen showroom the place individuals can see and contact the material,” reveals Griffith, including, “We might, after all, maintain our design enterprise.”
Inside Design: Griffith Roberts Roth and Blythe Roberts McNerney, Griffith Blythe Interiors, Washington, DC.