The New York Times
-Douglas Burton, one of the owners of Apartment Zero, a design store in Washington, made a pass through Eindhoven for the store's show of Dutch design pieces last year. Apartment Zero stocks pieces by Eindhoven graduates. "People don't understand it, but are interested in exploring it", Mr. Burton said. If Eindhoven is becoming more practical, he said, it reflects the new manufactures in the Netherlands and their hunger for unfettered, but buildable designs.

Decorating Spaces
-Designers Cheryl Ransone and Shannon Wang from apartment Zero, Washington DC's home furnishings and accessories emporium specializing in industrial design, suggested keeping the rear room, which can be closed off with sliding doors, probably as a den. the room has a full bath so it can be quickly converted into a guest room when needed. They used a tan and beige palette for the ceiling and walls, white the red orange carpet tiles form interface FLOR gave the room more warmth.

Elle Decor
-The place to shop... the contemporary boutique Apartment Zero showcases Karim Rashid, Marc Newson and Blu Dot.

Lucky
-The idea that form should follow function may not be new, buts it gets an energetic spin at Apartment Zero, located in Washington DC's hip arts district. Owners Christopher Ralston and Douglas Burton have stocked their shop with a large range of up-to-the-minute design items-all of them quite practical.

Lucky
-Urban furniture and groovy home essentials draw shoppers from all corners of the district to this shop. It's arranged like an apartment, with a dining area, living room and sleeping quarters.

National Geographic Traveler
-Washington's no longer need to hop the Metroliner to New York to get their modern design fix. From Italian barware to clean-lined desks, this home furnishings and accessories store is a paean to the urban aesthetic.

Fodor's
-This swank housewares store describes itself as appealing to Frank Gehry fans, and almost everyone else who wants a leg up on the latest in furnishings and accessories is not likely to be disappointed. If you're looking for pieces or just ideas to give your own house a hip, downtown look, look no further.

House Beautiful
- Washingtonians need not go to New York for their design fix. Apartment Zero stands in as a contemporary design museum in a city where Corinthian columns are still the order of the day. The refreshing emporium pulls no punches with up to the instant home furnishings curated from around the globe.

Metropolitan Home
- Shoppers in the nation’s capital now have a dramatically stylish place to buy state-of-the-art home furnishings. Apartment Zero artfully displays wares from over 75 companies, both European and American.

USA Today, 10 Great Places for Tree-Trimming Treasures.
- A hip place to buy contemporary designer furniture for the 21st century.

Elle Décor
- Where to Shop in Washington, DC

Surface Magazine
- Apartment Zero operates under the Arts and Crafts philosophy that there should be ‘nothing in your home that isn’t beautiful and functional.’ Overflowing with chic furniture, lighting, accessories and art.

Dwell Magazine
- In the center of DC, Apartment Zero reveals in contemporary design.

Lucky Magazine
- Apartment Zero showcases a slew of front-runners for 21st century styling.

VM+SD
- The store offers a variety of sleek and iconic furniture and furnishings and the design by Douglas Burton provides a witty and energetic backdrop for the product. The total effect is one of contemporary comfort.

Metropolis Magazine
- Apartment Zero features today’s leading Dutch designers.

Food & Wine Magazine
- The Washington, D.C. design revolution began at Apartment Zero.

Elle Magazine
- The pioneer in bringing contemporary home furnishings to DC is Apartment Zero in Penn Quarter.

www.designsponge.com
This seems to be everyone’s favorite dc store. I prefer something a little smaller, but apartment zero does carry a fantastic selection of modern lighting and tabletop accessories. they have nice porcelain pieces as well.

Abitare, Italy
- Apartment Zero is the well-known Washington, D.C. showroom, whose name underlines its home design and domestic lifestyle mission.

El Mercurio Newspaper- Vivienda Decoracion, Spain
- Provocadores Sociales

Wallpaper Magazine
- One of DC’s interiors meccas.

- The store offers a variety of sleek and iconic furniture and furnishings and the design provides a witty and energetic backdrop.

Where Magazine
- Many retailers claim to carry museum-quality merchandise. But downtown's Apartment Zero has actually installed mod furnishings at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. As part of an exhibit, Nordic Cool: Hot Women Designers, Apartment Zero's jaunty Reading Room plays hip Scandinavian pieces off walls striped in grey, pink and blue.

Washington Post
- In a modest vignette at a downtown design store, the future is coming into view. A collection of objects for body, office and home designed by Generation Next went on display this week at Apartment Zero. Witty designs signal the creator's demographic: they are graduate students at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. But several provocative products offer highly original thinking about lifestyles ahead.

Washington Post
- The line between art appreciation and smart shopping has become hopelessly blurred, and everyday living can be the richer for it. As design and art shows now on view demonstrate, museum curators gather the best of the best to put on a stellar event. But savvy retailers can order up some of the same objects to sell. As Douglas Burton of Apartment Zero discovered, Tappio Wirkkala's famous white porcelain paper bag was not available anywhere in the US. So Burton has changed that, and in partnership with the Embassy of Finland, he has stocked the store with Wirkkala masterpieces, from barware to art glass.

Washington Post
- The collaboration between the embassy and the design store began last spring. When the Embassy of Finland staged a retrospective or Tappio Wirkkala. Apartment Zero made space for some of the late designer's iconic pieces. Apartment Zero's first adventure in design diplomacy was a joint venture with the Royal Netherlands Embassy in the Spring of 2002. Working with the Dutch cultural counselor, they helped organize a month-long festival of contemporary Dutch design. The sale of each Can of Gold raised money for a local food bank, while also raising the profile of Dutch Design. Apartment Zero and the embassy sent the furnishings on tour to Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Washington Post
- With hundreds of co-conspirators in Washington this week for the annual conference of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the Apartment Zero design store commandeered display windows along 7th and D streets to show off local talent. Seven area industrial designers jumped at the opportunity to install prototypes and production pieces. No products are for sale, but information about the exhibit is available at Apartment zero where the tour starts.

Washington Post
The Netherlands Embassy and the Apartment Zero design store have joined forces to spirit the latest examples of Dutch avant-garde ceramic design from Milan to Washington. On exhibit are rarely seen vases and tableware by designers whose works are in the collections of major museums.

Washington Post
- Dutch festival may help put DC in a new world. Thanks to the efforts of a handful of Washingtonians, and a design revolution that just won't quit, DC has edged its way onto the circuit. Washington's novel collaboration between Apartment Zero and the Royal Netherlands Embassy will bring prominent Dutch designers and container-loads of the most inventive furniture and objects making the rounds today. The Dutch events were the brainstorm of Douglas Burton, owner of Apartment Zero. He argues that a local design culture has been on the verge of happening, and that DC may be a tradition-conscious city but the attitude here is very progressive. People just didn't have an outlet to express that.

The Washington Blade
- Christopher Ralston and Douglas Burton build their lives around good design and are exercising their admiration for the Netherlands aesthetic with "Celebrating Dutch Design", their upcoming exchange with the Royal Netherlands embassy. "The Dutch have a higher standard for originality", says Ralston. "One might go so far as to say that the Dutch represent the substance of style." While Washington has not made a name for itself as the style capitol of anywhere, resident who have a chic vision of the national's capitol of tomorrow, should take time to celebrate in this event.

The Georgetowner
- Everyone is falling in love with Dutch design. Apartment Zero, the ultra-hip downtown showroom, packed close to 700 guests at their opening exhibit of Dutch design. Their collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art brought designer Marcel Wanders to a full house for a lecture by the designer and Jurgen Bey the following day to the embassy itself. Apartment Zero also brought Jurgen Bey's tree trunk bench, which you may have seen on Phillip Stark's Hudson hotel in Manhattan.

Washington Post
- Washington’s novel collaboration between Apartment Zero and the Royal Netherlands Embassy will bring three prominent Dutch designers and container-loads of the most inventive furniture and objects making the rounds today. The Dutch events were the brainstorm of Douglas Burton, owner of Apartment Zero.

- Washington’s burgeoning collaboration between embassies and a local design merchant continues this fall with a celebration of Finnish glass. During the month-long run, the downtown design store Apartment Zero will be staging a mini-exhibition of Oiva Toikka’s commercial pieces.

Washingtonian Magazine, “Great Home Design, 2006”
- The pieces are so sophisticated… home accessories both fine and funky help shoppers complete a room, along with 3 on-staff interior décor experts.

Washington Business Journal
- A contemporary home furnishings store offers cutting-edge designs and is thriving amidst a flourishing DC 7th Street arts scene.

Washington Flyer Magazine, Best of 2001
- To truly come away with the best the neighborhood has to offer, stop by Apartment Zero and say hello to owners Christopher Ralston and Douglas Burton. The duo offers handshakes as inviting as their amazing collection of home furnishings. The store boasts an assortment of contemporary cutting-edge home furnishings, quirky and colorful fare that blurs the line between fashion and architecture.

Where Magazine, DC
- Apartment Zero overflows with crisp, contemporary furnishings from Canadian, U.S., Dutch and Danish sources. Ralston and Burton’s opening of this au courant modern design source in 1999 signaled the beginning of a retail renaissance here.

-Soho meets DC at apartment zero, a new furniture and housewares emporium in downtown's artsy 7th street."

DC Style
- To help the masses turn their visions into reality, Burton and Ralston have created a space where customers feel welcome, not intimidated. Apartment Zero has found its way into many high-profile spots in the District.

Washingtonpost.com
- Ralston and Burton are a dynamic duo armed with an impressive background in shopping center know-how, marketing expertise and visual merchandising. Their extensive selection of well-designed products represents industrial design innovations, new materials, and developing technologies worldwide. Apartment Zero markets quality products to design savvy consumers and has continued to be a primary resource for contemporary achievement.