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Book Mark Hampton  The Art of Friendship

Download or read book Mark Hampton The Art of Friendship written by Duane Hampton and published by Harper. This book was released on 2001-11-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hampton, long regarded as the "First Decorator" for his work on the White House for former president George Bush, was one of America's most prominent interior decorators. His clients included Estée Lauder, the Saul Steinbergs, the Mike Wallaces, and the Henry Kissingers, to name only a few. For the people who knew him well, his reputation as a decorator was surpassed by his generosity as a friend. In his lifetime, Hampton painted hundreds of watercolors as gifts for the people who were closest to him. Mark Hampton: The Art of Friendship, by his widow, Duane Hampton, is a collection of 140 watercolors that reveal his wit, affection, and sophistication. The paintings are whimsical, lighthearted, yet richly beautiful. Even though he often painted while talking on the phone to business contacts, taking care of his daughters, or packing to leave for the weekend, Hampton managed to create lasting impressions of the most fleeting moments of life. Including birthday cards; valentines; Christmas greetings; travel studies; portraits of friends, family members, and pets; garden scenes; still lifes; and homages, this collection is a memorable reflection of a lifetime of friendship. Duane Hampton's introduction offers a loving and insightful portrait of her husband's life. Raised as a Quaker in a community of Friends in Indiana, Mark Hampton grew to understand that being a friend -- in the most universal sense -- is a vital part of our existence and is intimately linked with our everyday activities. He once wrote, "At least our private worlds can reward us with peace and pleasure." The watercolors in this collection prove that the rewards of the private world can be profound. Mark Hampton: The Art of Friendship is a striking testimonial to the enduring power of friendship and an endearing collection of Mark Hampton's most personal artwork.

Book Indianapolis Monthly

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Indianapolis Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.

Book Indianapolis Monthly

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Indianapolis Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.

Book Mark Hampton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Duane Hampton
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2010-04-27
  • ISBN : 0847832880
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mark Hampton written by Duane Hampton and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the career of the late interior designer Mark Hampton (1940–1998), whom the New York Times called "an icon of American Style." In the tradition of Albert Hadley and David Hicks, this is a comprehensive look at the career of the late Mark Hampton, one of the most famous and admired American interior designers of the twentieth century. A classic American success story, Hampton grew up in small-town Indiana and went on to worldwide fame. He began his career working for some of the greatest interior designers of the age: Mrs. Henry Parish II, David Hicks, and McMillen, Inc. He later went on to design for such clients as Brooke Astor, Estee Lauder, Jacqueline Onassis, and the Henry Kissingers, in addition to his work on the White House, Camp David, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the American Academy in Rome. Known for the tremendous depth and breadth of his knowledge, Hampton refused to be pigeonholed into a trademark style, moving effortlessly from sleek modernism to English country and back again. A highly popular lecturer who drew crowds, Hampton was also the author of two books, as well as a designer of both furniture and fabrics. Rich with original materials including Hampton’s watercolors, sketches, and notebooks, as well as hundreds of images of Hampton’s important commissions, and impeccably researched and intimately written by his widow, Duane Hampton, this will be a visual feast for everyone interested in interiors as well as an important addition to the history of interior design.

Book Sister Parish

Download or read book Sister Parish written by Apple Parish Bartlett and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fast-moving, entertaining biography” of the woman behind the Parish Hadley interior design firm is “like eavesdropping on a lively society lunch” (Publishers Weekly). A New York Times Notable Book Sister—as she was called by family and friends—was born Dorothy May Kinnicutt into a patrician New York family in 1910, and spent her privileged early life at the right schools, yacht clubs, and coming-out parties. Compelled to work during the lean years of the Depression, she combined her innate design ability with her upper-echelon social connections to create an extraordinarily successful interior decorating business. The Parish-Hadley firm’s list of clients reads like an American Who’s Who, including Astors, Paleys, Rockefellers, and Whitneys—and she helped Jacqueline Kennedy transform the White House from a fusty hodge-podge into a historically authentic symbol of American elegance. Cozy, airy, colorful but understated, her style came to be known as “American country,” and its influence continues to this day. Compiled by her daughter and granddaughter from Sister’s own unpublished memoirs, as well as from hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, staff, world-renowned interior designers (Mark Hampton, Mario Buatta, Keith Irvine, Bunny Williams, and her longtime partner Albert Hadley, among many others), and clients including Annette de la Renta, Glenn Bernbaum, and Mrs. Thomas Watson, Sister Parish takes us into the houses—and lives—of some of the most fascinating and famous people of this inimitable woman’s time. Fully updated, the revised edition features a new foreword by Albert Hadley and an appreciation by Bunny Williams, who began her career at Parish-Hadley. “Selections from Mrs. Parish’s own rather wonderful, often moving, reminiscences, intercut with observations from her family, employees, clients and friends.” —The New York Times Book Review “Sister’s delightfully self-deprecating humor illuminates the biography throughout.” —Kirkus Reviews Includes photographs

Book Alexa Hampton  The Language of Interior Design

Download or read book Alexa Hampton The Language of Interior Design written by Alexa Hampton and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an early age, Alexa Hampton learned the language of good design, the vocabulary to speak it, and the elements that define it. As the daughter of interior design legend Mark Hampton, she traveled the world by her father’s side, touring the great architectural landmarks and discovering beauty, training her eye. Now one of America’s most influential designers herself, Alexa Hampton provides a tour of stunning residences from her own portfolio. Eighteen classic spaces illustrate in rich detail the elements that govern cultivated design—contrast, proportion, color, and balance. Among the residences are a landmark 1912 McKim, Mead & White restoration on Fifth Avenue in New York City; an eclectic house by the sea layered in textures, patterns, and colors; a contemporary apartment distinguished by simple geometry and clean lines; and Hampton’s own apartment, filled with an exquisite collection of architectural elements. Hampton also explains how she tailored each space to meet her clients’ needs while retaining a timeless aesthetic, and she provides design expertise on everything from fabric schemes to the particulars of paint. From a French neoclassical tour de force of architec-ture, artwork, and design to a Queen Anne summer cottage furnished to showcase the house’s graceful nineteenth-century dimensions, the spaces here speak the language of design—a language that, under Hampton’s tutelage, anyone can master.

Book Sister

    Book Details:
  • Author : Apple Parish Bartlett
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2000-09-02
  • ISBN : 9780312242404
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Sister written by Apple Parish Bartlett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate portrait of Mrs. Henry Parish II-known to friends as Sister-chronicles one woman's remarkable life and groundbreaking career, painting a unique portrait of American high society and recounting the transformation of an art form. Dorothy May Kinnicutt was born into a patrician New York family in 1910 and her privileged early life was one of the right schools, yacht clubs, coming out parties, and the Social Register. Compelled to work because of the lean years of the Depression, Sister combined her innate design ability and her high echelon social connections to create an extraordinarily successful interior decorating business. Her firm, Parish-Hadley, served a list of clients that comprised the crème de la crème of American aristocracy, among them Rockefellers, Astors, and Whitneys. To them, she was in indispensable presence, both in their salons and in designing them. Her style, influenced by her family's country house in Maine, came to be known as "American country" and was a reflection of Sister's deeply felt Yankee roots. It influenced an entire generation of American decorators. To the pubic at large, she was the visionary who helped transform Jacqueline Kennedy's White House from a fusty relic of the fifties into the international symbol of American elegance-Camelot. To Apple Parish Bartlett and Susan Bartlett Crater, she was a mother and grandmother. Drawing upon Sister Parish's own unpublished memoirs, as well as hundreds of interviews with world-famous interior decorators and socialites, Bartlett and Crater take readers into the houses-and the lives-of the most famous and powerful people of Parish's time, telling the story of the enormously charismatic woman who redefined American design.

Book Mark Hampton on Decorating

Download or read book Mark Hampton on Decorating written by Mark Hampton and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the United States in slightly different form by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1989.

Book Interior Design  the New Freedom

Download or read book Interior Design the New Freedom written by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladies of the Canyons

Download or read book Ladies of the Canyons written by Lesley Poling-Kempes and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Book Forthcoming Books

Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 1422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Figure Drawing

Download or read book Figure Drawing written by Michael Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writer s Guide to Book Editors  Publishers  and Literary Agents  2003 2004

Download or read book Writer s Guide to Book Editors Publishers and Literary Agents 2003 2004 written by Jeff Herman and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 2002 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Key to Unlocking Your Writing Success This ultimate writer's reference connects you to who's who in the publishing industry. Inside, you'll find the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail and Web addresses for hundreds of top editors and agents, plus essays from industry insiders who reveal the secrets to big-time success. With the most up-to-date information on an industry that's constantly changing, this new edition offers everything you need to get past the slush piles and into the hands of the real players in the publishing field, including how to write attention-grabbing book proposals and thrive off rejection. Now, you hold the keys to getting published.

Book Betty Builds It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Hampton
  • Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 1513262335
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Betty Builds It written by Julie Hampton and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining humor and art with STEM subjects of science, technology, and math, Betty Builds It explores a burgeoning friendship between a genius engineering robot girl and her sweet younger brother who just wants to support his sister. Betty could build just about anything. Whatever she needs, she can make it for herself. But with a screen as her parental unit and her baby brother Toby who can’t do much, Betty longs for a friend—so she builds one! While Toby struggles to get his sister’s attention, Betty continues to build and build, until finally she realizes what she was looking for was beside her the whole time. Betty Builds It is a sweet family story of the new friendship between siblings, and also celebrates and promotes women and girls in science.

Book 2002 Guide to Literary Agents

Download or read book 2002 Guide to Literary Agents written by Rachel Vater and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide for every stage of a writer's career. A writer's search for representation, from finding an agent to signing a contract, begins here.

Book Writer s Guide to Book Editors  Publishers and Literary Agents  2002 2003

Download or read book Writer s Guide to Book Editors Publishers and Literary Agents 2002 2003 written by Jeff Herman and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind reference provides critical information on securing publishing contracts.

Book The Writer s Market

Download or read book The Writer s Market written by Kathryn Struckel Brogan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: