Alexa Hampton - Design, Style, and Influence

Informationen zum Autor Alexa Hampton Klappentext "From Alexa Hampton, one of today's greatest interior designers and owner of Mark Hampton LLC, comes a beautifully photographed memoir about her journey into design and the inspirations that shaped her iconic style. The anatomies of my chosen surrounding are rich with meaning, authentic and borrowed, and are a snapshot (or many snapshots) of a lifetime spent in the world of design. In her newest book, Alexa Hampton takes you on a journey through her life's work: her beautifully appointed pre-war apartment on 59th street in Manhattan. She highlights the art, textiles, and objects in her spaces, along with the design and fashion tastemakers who inspired their use. In doing so, she acknowledges some of the big movements, auctions, and people that rocked the world of design and made an indelible mark on her. An intimate look into Alexa's personal design process, including the countless updates and redecorations of her own home, this book is a personal history of interior design and a love letter to an iconic home"-- Leseprobe How I Got Here As the daughter of a famous and beloved decorator, I have often been asked when I knew I wanted to go into the very business that my father, Mark Hampton, helped pioneer alongside many greats such as David Hicks, Sister Parish, Albert Hadley, Mario Buatta, and the like, all of whom most shaped the profession into what it resembles today. As I have answered this question so many times in just the same way over many, many years, I will put it down, here and now, in writing, so I can easily refer to this as my official printed response. Like many people who thrive in New York City, my parents, having grown up elsewhere, were not that rare breed of native-born New Yorkers. They met, married, and moved there together as recent college graduates. My father, like many cool cats before him, hailed from Indiana (see Halston, Bill Blass, and Cole Porter). My mother, Duane Flegel, had a more circuitous path. She was born in Portland, Oregon, spent a year in Thailand, and then came back to the United States to settle in Pennsylvania for her high school years. She and my father began courting after meeting in Europe one summer during college, and when they finally arrived as a couple in New York, they each attended graduate school to attain their master’s degrees—he in northern Renaissance art, and she in English. Not-so-fun fact: I am the only person in my immediate family without a graduate degree. I gave up my graduate career after a year at my father’s illustrious alma mater: New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. I have since had the extreme honor of receiving two honorary PhDs, one from the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and the other from the New York School of Interior Design. (My joke is that I have twice the degrees but half the knowledge. I am not sure if I am actually amused by this.) New York, to my mind, is for those who will take it. As with many working professionals (and I bet all those who are “children of”), I have often experienced imposter syndrome. Does it count that I was born here? Does it count that I came up through the ranks of a company owned by my father? Does it count as success, given that I bear his last name? It is all impossible to answer and surely not worth the breath to ask. As the Magic 8 Ball tells us, “Reply hazy, try again.” But, as youngsters, we all think that the world will be our oyster. What isn’t in our grasp? Ah, the folly and arrogance of youth. As all the studies confirm, American children score highest in confidence and not much else. To my child’s mind, my parents’ life seemed thrilling (and it was). Hard work during the day, fancy parties at night, and glamorous trips to beautiful places seemed just the thing. I was born, and remain, an extreme extrovert. I confidently wanted to crash all of my parents’...

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• Autori: Alexa Hampton
• Editore: Clarkson Potter
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.10.2023
• EAN: 9780593578643
• ISBN: 978-0-593-57864-3
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 237 mm x 311 mm x 27 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia