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"""When Mark Hampton's On Decorating was published in 1989, it immediately became a touchstone for professional and amateur decorators, as well as the passionate audience of lifestyle bloggers and journalists. Decades later, it has endured as an iconic book--beloved, emulated, and referred to. Preserved in the original design with its eighties charm, Mark Hampton's witty essays--urging us to overcome our fear of strong color, or recalling how a room's bright green energized him so much as a seven-year-old boy that he tore up a pillow, then used the hue in several of his most acclaimed rooms as an adult--will raise a smile as he informs us with lessons that still hold magnificently true today. With his remarkably immediate voice, a new foreword from his daughter Alexa, and the same special package as the original publication, this reprint edition will feel like a must-have for bedside reading with a cup of tea or for proud display in the living room."""

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"""MARK HAMPTON was posthumously celebrated by Architectural Digest in 2010 as one of the world's twenty greatest designers of all time. After apprenticing to David Hicks and Sister Parish, he founded his own firm in 1976. His celebrated commissions include work on the White House for presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton; Camp David; Gracie Mansion; the American Academy in Rome; and the American embassy in Paris. An accomplished watercolorist, Hampton has a painting in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. ALEXA HAMPTON has been president of Mark Hampton, LLC, since 1998. She has appeared in Architectural Digest's AD100 top interior designers every year since 2002, House Beautiful's America's 100 best designers since 1999, and Elle Decor's A-list. She is also the designer of eponymous products for the home and a frequent keynote speaker at design events and conferences. In 2012, she became the first female designer to win the International Market Centers' Design Icon Award."""

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