Leslie Westreich – Real Estate

Last year property values in Washington escalated the highest “among six major U.S. markets as employers added jobs and investor demand boosted prices, according to CoStar Group Inc.”  Prices for  offices there also increased 15 percent (with six percent in New York).  No other cities had any increases.  Indeed, in Chicago, there was a drop of 22 percent; LA, 17 percent and San Francisco 13 percent.
It seems that it is just Washington and New York which are attractive for investors these days, following the recession.  As well, “the reason people aren’t as comfortable with a Chicago and L.A. is because their economies just aren’t doing nearly as well as, say, D.C.,” said Chris Macke, senior real estate strategist at CoStar. “It all comes back to perception and perception driven by the economy, and that’s what drives the investor demand or amount of dollars chasing the amount of deals.”

Leslie Westreich lives in a stunning and uniquely-designed Watergate condominium. Much of the interior design hails from the neoclassical era.  Sipping a glass of tea, or taking in an evening meal, one can enjoy the comfort of Manuel Canovas silk velvet that adorn the chairs, which was “embossed using a technique called guaffrage.”

What does this mean? The literal understanding of gauffrage is empty printing.  In other words printing that does not use ink.  Its uniqueness is in its capacity to provide a three-dimensional capacity which is not provided by any other printing method. This special technique is not new however.  In fact, it dates back to 1120, or even earlier but modernized until that date.
Ultimately, as in much of the other interior design in Westreich’s abode, the gauffrage method used for the silk velvet chairs results in a stunning look and feel throughout.