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 After finally getting her Interior Design degree from the Corcoran, Joyce Frank decided to spread her wings creatively launching J A Frank Design LLC, where she does set dressing, display, property staging and photo styling. Her passion is architecture and she enjoys traveling both domestically and international to see historic and modern buildings. Joyce also works on designing jewelry, mosaics and painted furniture. Joyce will highlight historic homes, interior design, seasonal decorations, antiquing, and design for Miss A. If you have something design-related that you would like profiled, please email her at joycefrank@jafrankdesign.com. |
 
Beautiful Exterior Entry of a Home Featured on this Year's Tour On Saturday, December 4th, 2010 from 11:00am to 4:00pm, stroll through lovely properties dressed up for the holidays by acclaimed interior designers and local florists. This is a great event to see the beautiful interiors of Old Town Alexandria’s historic residential properties. [...] 
Neue Galerie ExteriorFavorite 5th Avenue Residence Exterior This small-scale gem of an art gallery makes its home in a former Vanderbilt mansionon the upper east side, just off of 5th Avenue and 86th Street. This beautiful space (both inside and out) is dedicated to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design featuring design [...] 
Recently, while participating in a gallery walk through Chelsea, I came upon the Axelle Fine Arts Galeries, and their exhibit on the photography of Melvin Sokolsky hosted by Real Simple magazine. Melvin Sokolsky is an iconic fashion photographer famous for his use of incredible props, drama and lighting. He managed to create images in [...] 
ABC Home and Carpet Manhattan ABC Home and Carpet Manhattan ABC Home and Carpet Manhattan ABC Home and Carpet Manhattan I thought I died and gone to heaven! ABC Home and Carpet has seven floors of the most incredible (and incredibly expensive) home furnishings and accessories. The first floor is [...] 
Recently I was hired to style a photo shoot of four different cocktail drinks. Wanting to make the project unique, I needed four different glasses. I searched high and low, evening traveling to NYC for my props, and could find nothing. Someone recommended the Hour Cocktail Collection located in Old Town Alexandria. What a [...] 
Living area after – 5707 Callcott Way For those who read my column on AskMissA.com, you may not realize that my company, JA Frank Design, helps clients with projects like interior design, art selection, real estate and property staging. One of my property staging clients is Sita Kapur, owner of Arlington Premier [...] 
Last night I watched an episode of Bravo TV’s “Bethenny Getting Married?” as she and her fiancé had their bachelor/bachelorette weekend at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City. I just spent last weekend at the Borgata. I have a friend who really likes slot machines (she was actually sitting at a slot machine a [...] 
2009 Best Table Winner Michelle Christian of Fandango Productions, Photo by Jennifer Hughes The International Special Events Society (ISES) is a professional trade association for the event planning industry comprised of over 4,000 world-wide members and 41 chapters. The Washington DC Chapter will hold their annual 2010 Tabletop Design Challenge on Monday, June [...] 
Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1905-1908, Oak Park, IL. Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1905-1908, Oak Park, IL. Last weekend I traveled to the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois for the annual “Wright Plus 2010” house walk and tour. This is a one day tour organized by [...] 
Painting by NYC Artist Andrei Petrov Last night, the Principle Gallery in Old Town, Alexandria will have an opening featuring paintings by Andrei Petrov. I first saw Andrei’s work on the first season of NBC’s Apprentice. He tells me that it also happened to be the episode the Omarosa was fired. On that [...] |
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December 1st, 2010 
