THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Audrey Hoffer
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| Tony Gyepi-Garbrah and Desirée Venn Frederic at their residence in Washington. Credit Ting Shen for The New York Times |
WASHINGTON — Desirée Venn Frederic and Tony Gyepi-Garbrah live in a light-filled apartment in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington that is small in size but grand in scope. The charcoal walls, stretching up to 15-foot ceilings, hold dozens of paintings, prints, photographs, 100-year-old textiles, collages, drawings, pastels, ceramics, and antiques, conferring a museumlike aura on the home. “One of the reasons I took an interest in Tony was because he understood legacy-building with art,” she said. She and Mr. Gyepi-Garbrah, 39, plan to marry later this year. [
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| “God Head” (2011), top, and “Untitled (Red and Black)” (2010), by Victor Ekpuk. |
