Alexa Hampton
Design, Style, and Influence
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
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.
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Interior designer Hampton, who has served as president of her father Mark Hampton's design company since 1998, debuts with a flashy volume exhibiting the five apartments she's occupied in the same midtown Manhattan building she moved into in 1995. She pairs discussions of her design choices alongside personal reflections, explaining that she shared her first apartment with her childhood best friend and filled it with "pieces from my father's storeroom of various samples," including a white marble Roman-style bust and a pair of small lion sculptures. Hampton recalls being a newlywed filled "with hope and optimism" when she moved into the third apartment and highlights the home's numerous Greek accents, such as a custom-built table featuring a Greek key motif and a painted rendition of a Parthenon frieze in the living room. Anecdotes about hobnobbing with the rich and famous come across as name-dropping (she mentions eating dinner with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's sister and borrowing dresses as a teenager from fashion designer Bill Blass), but the regal interiors impress and chart the development of Hampton's sensibilities; for instance, the brown hues that dominate her second apartment are a far cry from the bolder purples and oranges that decorate her current bedroom. It's a lavish and personal look into a prominent designer's style.
