{"id":97381,"date":"2017-01-25T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T21:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=97381"},"modified":"2021-12-15T01:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:01:18","slug":"mark-hampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/mark-hampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorators to Know: Mark Hampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97923\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97923\" class=\"wp-image-97923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.30.06-AM.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.30.06-AM.png 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.30.06-AM-345x350.png 345w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.30.06-AM-118x120.png 118w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The designer, as pictured in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mark-Hampton-American-Decorator-Duane\/dp\/0847832880\"><em>Mark Hampton: An American Decorator<\/em> (Rizzoli)<\/a>, by his wife, Duane Hampton.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mark Hampton (1940\u201398) was a rare individual: He was an extremely gifted interior designer who counted the world\u2019s wealthiest and most powerful people among his clients, and he also happened to be exceptionally erudite and just plain nice. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a decorator, he was often described as being a \u201crelaxed traditionalist,\u201d but in fact he admired and was proficient in all kinds of looks, crediting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/le-corbusier\/\">Le Corbusier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/frank-lloyd-wright\/\">Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a> as early influences. No interior dictator, Hampton viewed his work as a collaborative effort, always involving the clients and taking into account their own tastes and possessions. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97853\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97853\" class=\"wp-image-97853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-1-2.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-1-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-1-2-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-1-2-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark\u2019s design for the sitting room of the 1979 Kips Bay Show House. Photo by Peter Vitale<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As he saw it, the decorator\u2019s role was to make rooms \u201clook great and reflect the owner at the same time.\u201d Sensitive to his profession\u2019s perceived triviality, Hampton defended his work in the introduction to his 1989 book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Hampton on Decorating<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by declaring that \u201cto transform the bleak and the barren into welcoming places where one can live seems to me an important and worthwhile goal in life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hampton\u2019s heightened aesthetic sense, which he often expressed in apt and amusing sketches, along with his inquisitive and scholarly nature no doubt set him apart from those near and dear when growing up on the family farm in rural Plainfield, Indiana, where his father also worked as an undertaker. From the age of 12, Hampton began collecting old copies of decorating magazines and embarking on DIY design projects. His parents indulged these proclivities, while encouraging him to pursue a career in law.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97873\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97873\" class=\"wp-image-97873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark-Hampton-Photographer-Phillip-H-Ennis.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark-Hampton-Photographer-Phillip-H-Ennis.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark-Hampton-Photographer-Phillip-H-Ennis-274x350.jpg 274w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark-Hampton-Photographer-Phillip-H-Ennis-94x120.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark\u2019s design for the 1984 Kips Bay Show House. Photo by Phillip H. Ennis<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being an obedient only son, Hampton tried hard to comply. He may be the only decorator on the AD 100 list who spent a semester abroad studying at the London School of Economics. But even then, he had difficulty resisting his true calling. He scored a part-time job while in London working as a draftsman and assistant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/david-hicks\/\">David Hicks<\/a>, who was making waves by breaking all the English country house\u2013style decorating rules. Nevertheless, in 1964, Hampton went on to law school at the University of Michigan, and it was then that he faced up to the fact that he must follow his own path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A master\u2019s from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University followed. He earned the degree while working part-time for the ne plus ultra of patrician decorators: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/decorators-know-sister-parish\/\">Sister Parish<\/a>. He was now, too, married to Duane Flegel, a young brainy \u201cco-ed\u201d he\u2019d fallen for in Florence, while on holiday during his fateful sojourn in London. She would become his right hand.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97893\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97893\" class=\"wp-image-97893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-2.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-2-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/16-2-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark and Duane&#8217;s Upper East Side home was featured in the July 1991 issue of House &amp; Garden. Photo by Keith Scott Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As luck would have it, the aspirant decorator was asked by his old boss Hicks to open a New York office for his bustling business providing the rich and trendy with super-mod pads. Hampton was happy to oblige. In fact, one of the earliest space he ever had published, credited to him and David Hicks, was his own one-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side, in a 1968 issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House &amp; Garden<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The living room featured a ceiling covered in a reflective, herringbone-patterned Mylar wallpaper, a Hicks-designed black and white hexagonal carpet and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/seating\/style\/louis-xv\/\">Louis XV\u2013style chairs<\/a> from the budget Door Store. It was hardly the look he would come to be known for, but it\u2019s what got him known. After he and the mercurial Hicks had a falling out in 1970, Hampton spent six years working for Eleanor Brown at the staid, high-society <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmilleninc.com\/history\/index.php\">decorating firm McMillen, Inc.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1976, Hampton opened his own firm. He worked in all styles at first but quickly became known for his own fresh take on traditionalism, which he wryly described as \u201ca nice, undercooked look.\u201d It was all very different in feel from Hicks, although he continued to deploy the drama of lustrous dark-hued walls, especially in chocolate brown, a Hicks signature.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97903\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97903\" class=\"wp-image-97903 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-2.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-2-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/14-2-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dining room of Mark and Duane&#8217;s Upper East Side home. Photo by Keith Scott Morgan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hampton\u2019s timing was perfect. His light touch appealed to old-money types who wanted homes that were a bit more genial, while his talent for orchestrating grand patrician looks drew a new generation of New York arrivistes. And so he amassed a client list that included such high-society grande dames as Brooke Astor, Anne Bass, Pamela Harriman and Est\u00e9e Lauder, as well as corporate dealmakers like Henry Kravis and Steve Ross. The 34-room triplex he designed for Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg at 740 Park Avenue, with its grand crimson living room, gilded furnishings and imposing Rubens, came to exemplify 1980s excess. (Likewise, the Steinberg home symbolized the ephemerality of wealth, as all the decor ended up on Sotheby\u2019s auction block by the millennium\u2019s end.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98143\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98143\" class=\"wp-image-98143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-1.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-1-382x350.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-1-120x110.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark had a talent for drawing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Ronald Reagan presidency, Hampton contributed to the redecoration of Blair House, the president\u2019s guest residence, and he designed for George and Barbara Bush the interiors of the vice presidential mansion. A close friendship with the couple developed, which resulted in Hampton also decorating the Oval Office, along with the family\u2019s private quarters at the White House when Bush became president, as well as Camp David, the Bush summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, their main residence in Houston and the interiors of the presidential library in College Station, Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to these impressive commissions, Hampton also wrote a much admired column on decorating for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House &amp; Garden, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">authored two books on the subject and lectured widely. A line of traditional furnishings conceived for Hickory Chair in the late 1980s was wildly successful. While he died at age 58, due to liver cancer, all who knew him remarked that Mark Hampton\u2019s life was one lived both well and artfully. Happily, his decorating legacy endures through the talent and enterprise of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/interior-design-firms-look-to-the-future\/\">daughter Alexa Hampton, who took over his firm in 1998<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97883\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97883\" class=\"wp-image-97883 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.16.11-AM.png\" width=\"490\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.16.11-AM.png 490w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.16.11-AM-279x350.png 279w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-25-at-11.16.11-AM-96x120.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Hampton: An American Decorator (Rizzoli) by Duane Hampton<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15522073],"tags":[11732373,11732543,11732413,11732463,8432683,11732513,7648613,7298193,11732403,11741113,8432633,439813,232,11732483,11732433,11732533,456003,10353203,11732363,11732393,110,7298183,11732493,6833,325293,11705501,11732353,11732503,11732423,11732523,11732473,11732453,6008563,11732443,11732383],"dibs-categories":[],"dibs-designs":[],"dibs-styles":[],"dibs-creators":[],"dibs-sellers":[],"class_list":["post-97381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interiors","tag-ad-100","tag-alexa-hampton","tag-anne-bass","tag-blair-house","tag-brooke-astor","tag-camp-david","tag-david-hicks","tag-decorator","tag-duane-flegel","tag-duane-hampton","tag-eleanor-brown","tag-estee-lauder","tag-frank-lloyd-wright","tag-george-and-barbara-bush","tag-henry-kravis","tag-hickory-chair","tag-house-garden","tag-houston","tag-indiana","tag-institute-of-fine-arts-at-new-york-university","tag-interior-design","tag-interior-designer","tag-kennebunkport","tag-le-corbusier","tag-london","tag-mark-hampton","tag-mark-hampton-on-decorating","tag-oval-office","tag-pamela-harriman","tag-presidential-library","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-saul-and-gayfryd-steinberg","tag-sister-parish","tag-steve-ross","tag-university-of-michigan"],"acf":{"subtitle":"The legendary designer rose from humble beginnings to create lavish spaces for high-society New Yorkers before decorating the White House for George H.W. 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