Ornare

Ornare at 3340 Cady’s Alley NW is a Brazilian luxury furniture brand’s Georgetown showroom, bringing the Sao Paulo design tradition to the Cady’s Alley design district that has concentrated Georgetown’s high-end furniture and interior design resources since the lane’s redevelopment in the early 2000s. Ornare was founded in Sao Paulo in 1993 and has developed a specialty in the customized wardrobe and storage systems that the luxury residential market values for their ability to disappear into the room’s architecture while providing the precise organization that the contemporary household requires.

The Brazilian design tradition that Ornare represents is less familiar in the American design market than the Italian and Scandinavian traditions that dominate the Georgetown design district’s other showrooms, which gives the Ornare product a distinctive character in the Cady’s Alley context. The Brazilian furniture industry, which developed from the mid-twentieth century with the inspiration of Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa’s architectural program and the tropical wood resources of the Brazilian interior, has produced a design tradition that combines the European modernist influence with the specific material and cultural character of Brazil.

The wardrobe and storage system that Ornare produces is organized around the full customization principle: the client’s specific room dimensions, storage requirements, and material preferences determine the configuration of the wardrobe, which can be produced in the lacquered finishes, the wood veneers, and the glass and mirror elements that the Ornare catalog includes. The Georgetown client who wants a master suite closet that functions as a fully designed room rather than a furniture installation is the customer that the Ornare program serves.

Hours run Monday through Saturday. The Ornare customization process, which the Cady’s Alley showroom guides the client through from the room measurement through the material selection and the interior configuration, produces a specification that is as detailed as an architectural drawing: the exact dimensions of each module, the sliding door mechanism and its travel, the interior shelf and drawer configuration, and the lighting system that illuminates the organized storage. This level of specification is what the luxury wardrobe market provides that the furniture catalog cannot.

The Cady’s Alley design district context at 3340 places Ornare alongside the Duxiana bed showroom and adjacent to the B&B Italia and BoConcept furniture showrooms, creating the complete bedroom specification resource that the Georgetown client furnishing the master suite can address in a single Cady’s Alley visit. The wardrobe from Ornare, the bed from Duxiana or Hastens, and the remaining furniture from the M Street showrooms complete the master suite specification at the Georgetown design district’s highest level. Hours run Monday through Saturday. The Ornare showroom at 3340 Cady’s Alley NW is open Monday through Saturday, with the wardrobe and storage planning consultation available during all open hours by walk-in or by appointment for the extended design session that the custom wardrobe specification requires. The Cady’s Alley design district setting provides the Ornare client with the complete design district context in which the Brazilian wardrobe system takes its place alongside the other European furniture showrooms.