Darryl Savage presents a collection of photographs from his eponymous shop DHS  Designs in Queenstown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He has been a presence in the antiques and design community for many years, both here, in DC, and in NY. His clientele includes household names, ranging from the political theater (Kennedy, Rumsfeld, Roosevelt) to professional performers (Faith Hill, Pia Lindstrom), from athletic greats (Sugar Ray Leonard, 'Big Daddy' Wilkinson) to masters of finance (Getty, DuPont, Schlumberger) , and such fashion icons as Donna Karan. 

Born in Washington, DC in 1953, he moved to NYC in the early '70's where he graduated from The New School/Parsons. He was always interested in all things beautiful, and included art and photography among his studies of business and philosophy. It was the classroom of NYC itself, however, that inspired him to chronicle life, with all of its beauty and foibles. Street life and cafe society made a lasting impression, putting him in the environs of such cultural icons as Warhol and Jagger, Lou Reed and Patti Smith, Lauren Hutton and Jerry Hall, Studio 54, Blondie and CBGB etc."He sees the interesting quirk", quipped top NY society decorator Charlotte Moss in an article about Savage in Architectural Digest (12/00). Certainly, having traveled extensively in Europe, and coming of age in Greenwich Village in the '70's shaped his ability to balance his eye for the beautiful with his humor for the absurd. Through the medium of photography he shares with us his vision - from evoking an appreciation for the grand architecture of our civilization, to documenting the playgrounds of the wealthy, to recording candidly colorful characters of the street.