Written by DCist contributor E.K. Eckert

For the past month and a half, house music lovers from all over the DC metropolitan area have been trekking up to Silver Spring on the weekends to the newest club on the EDM radar, Gallery. After hearing a lot of buzz regarding how great the club was, DCist decided to also make that trek to check out Chicago house veterans Roy Davis Jr. and Paul Johnson.

Gallery itself is billed as being set in a renovated WWII machine factory. While there was little evidence of any type of factory and/or machine building history, the contemporary feel of the club was tempered by the exposed ceiling and cement floor, giving the space the industrial edge it needed. The club is a modernist dream-scape of deep blues, silvers, and whites, with contemporary art work displayed on the walls, clean lines, an illuminated bar and walls, and a VIP seating area that would be hard to rival at a larger club. After passing the impressively designed split level bar in the center of the downstairs, we were most impressed by the back patio, which had “bi-folded glass doors” (ie, a fancy garage door) that was open so that the patio and club seemed to flow seamlessly into one another.

Photo by Flickr user smata2