At home with the Cohen’s in their Chevy Chase Penthouse.
By Julie Kirtz Garrett
Photography Pete Muller
The entry hall of William and Janet Cohen's Chevy Chase penthouse features an oil painting of a young Vietnamese woman alongside an ornate French Empire style cabinet.
The view from Bill and Janet Langhart Cohen’s Chevy Chase penthouse is a Beltway panorama. To the south there’s the National Cathedral and the rooftops of Georgetown; to the north, the Mormon Temple and Bethesda. It is a sweeping Washington vista, which is why their 3,000 foot wrap around terrace is where the couple likes to relax and take it all in — when they have the time.
He is a former Republican senator and secretary of defense for a Democratic president (not to mention novelist and published poet) who continues to travel the world as a global business consultant. She is CEO of her own media consulting firm, a former Boston television personality, BET correspondent, author and playwright. In February, her new one-act play Anne and Emmett was presented in Israel. And last year, the Cohens published a memoir together, Love in Black and White, about their bi-racial marriage. Along with busy professional lives, the Cohens decorated their home themselves, with Langhart Cohen taking the lead.
