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For more than 20 years, Christina Haire’s creativity and passion for design has only been matched by her singular dedication to making clients happy. A member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), her expertise in residential and commercial design has won her a stellar reputation and an international clientele. Christina has participated in many designer showhouses, including those of the National Symphony and Washington Design Center. She won an ASID award for excellence in a single room in 2005, and her work has been featured in numerous local and national publications. Her home was also the subject of two HGTV programs on interior design.

With a design philosophy best summed up as luxurious and inviting, her work is marked by warm colors, sumptuous fabrics and classic furnishings. She deftly melds the old with the new, the good with the not-so-good, and seamlessly combines the precious antique with the equally treasured memento or flea market find. Christina makes it her mission to reflect the very best of each client by creating personal rooms that are exquisitely tasteful and elegant, yet entirely functional. An unabashed lover of chairs, Christina is quick to admit that she has never met a chair she didn’t like—which is not to say that pillows, settees, ottomans, mirrors and sconces don’t also get their due.

In addition to her famed collection of European antiques and accessories, Christina has developed a love for Asian art and artifacts. Now dividing her time between the U.S. and Singapore, she has uncommon access to an array of Southeast Asian treasures. Among her favorite finds are rare Tibetan chests, vibrant Thai silks, handmade lacquerware from Burma and Vietnam and ornate silver from Cambodia.

A native of New York, Christina is a graduate of Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y. She is an avid traveler, gardener, reader and community activist.

She maintains a design studio in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and Singapore.