Decorating in Detail Author: Visit Amazon's Alexa Hampton Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0307956857 | Format: EPUB
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About the Author
ALEXA HAMPTON has been president of Mark Hampton, LLC, her iconic father's interior design company, since 1998. She has been named one of
Architectural Digest's AD100 top interior designers every year since 2002 and has been included in
House Beautiful's list of America's 100 Best Designers every year since 1999. The creator of the recurring "Where-to" feature for the
Wall Street Journal, she is also the designer of a growing stable of eponymous licensed products for the home, a frequent keynote speaker at design events and conferences, and a member of the board of the New York School of Interior Design. In 2012, she became the first female designer to win the International Market Centers' Design Icon Award. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Potter Style (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307956857
- ISBN-13: 978-0307956859
- Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.1 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Mark Hampton knew everything. He'd read it. He'd seen it. He'd heard it. And because he had some kind of trick memory, everything he knew was instantly available to him. It was thrilling to be his friend, to learn about art and books and design from him.
And more: I met the Hampton daughters when they were in their teens, and promptly adopted Duane and Mark's parenting philosophy (take the kids everywhere, don't marginalize them at a kiddie table). Several apartments later, my library still lives in bookcases that Mark designed. I have seen Kate act since she was in school plays. Alexa, who took over her father's firm after his death, consulted on our last apartment; the chintz curtains she had made for us there don't work in our new one, but I took them with us, just because.
And now, all these years later, I'm writing about Alexa.
In case you suspect I might be a stenographer for the Hamptons -- I did, after all, review Duane's book, "Mark Hampton: An American Decorator" -- I'm actually a book behind. I failed to write a full review of Alexa's first book, "Alexa Hampton: The Language of Interior Design," which breaks design down into 4 elements and presents 18 examples as a sensible tutorial.
Now comes "Decorating in Detail," a picture and text book that takes you, in considerable detail, through seven homes that Alexa has decorated. They are not McMansions. They're not small. They are, in a word, not the kind of spaces that you and I occupy or may want to.
This doesn't mean you can't learn from the residences of the rich -- in fairness to the 1%, they're at least smart enough to know they can't decorate for themselves so they choose a designer on the level of Alexa Hampton.
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