Designer’s Tent Sale: June 20-21

If you passed on purchasing items at the DC Design House last month and other show houses in the past, here’s your second chance to get some of them at a huge discount, in addition to dozens of other pieces DC designers are donating next week to raise money for the Center for Family Development. The Designers Tent Sale is hosted by Kelley Proxmire of Kelley Interior Design.

Proxmire poses in one of four black and white dining chair’s she’s offering at the sale, which she featured with her tabletop setting in last year’s Georgetown Jingle.

Proxmire went through her vast storage areas and produced this green club chair and throw pillow from a past showhouse.

She is also donating this stunning blue ottoman and slipper chair.

If you don’t already have an invitation for the “1st Dibs” opening reception on June 19, head out to Bethesda on June 20 or 21, where you might be able to snap up this chair, which designer Page Palmer featured in the guest room of the DC Design house. Hickory Chair, the maker, sold it with brass nailheads, but Palmer found a craftsman to replace all 450 gold-colored heads with silver. Original retail price: $1,650. Tent Sale Price: $850.

Thirty percent of all sales go to support the Center for Family Development, which runs marriage prep classes and marriage counseling programs in addition to parenting and relationship counseling and youth leadership programs. Some of the designers who are participating are donating the goods, so all of those sales benefit the center.