Emily was invited to be guest designer for Holidays at The White House, bringing a natural grandeur to the East Room (the ballroom), and the Palm Room, a passageway between East and West Wings. With the help of many volunteers, Emily and her team constructed sculptural garlands and intimate gardens, designing with rocks from her childhood home in Northern Vermont. Trees were dressed with evergreen garlands and raw quartz ornaments, stone mantles with stones, mirrors were hung with velvet ribbons strung with sweetgum and sycamore pods, and the gardens sprouted paperwhites and blooming hellebores over the course of the season, for a subtly lavish and deeply authentic design celebrating the natural world and the timeless nature of the House. Photography by Josie Miner.