Alexa Hampton Quotes
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During college, when I was working full time for my father [the decorator Mark Hampton], I rented an apartment and I just couldn't take time off to paint it. So I went there one evening and stayed up all night painting the place what I thought was a lovely pale yellow. When the sun came up, I realized I'd painted the walls the color of insanity. I had to immediately mix in all my trim color to tone it down. Yellow is an electric color and wholly misleading. It becomes more yellow with the sun's yellow light on it. The moral is, even if you think your yellow is the one, go paler.
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Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas.
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There’s not only one good solution for a design dilemma.
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I never swan in and preach from on high. It always starts with an ample amount of practical information.
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I hope I don’t have a trademark style… I don’t design in a vacuum. But, I see my job as a decorator as really to tease out the best version of my clients’ style.
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When I first took over the firm, after years of observing the boom of the ‘80s and the early ‘90s, I needed to go cleaner… I needed a purge, and now the notion of not having all those flourishes is beyond me. I love them–I desperately desire them. I’m affected by the pendulum swings of environment.
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You gotta be willing to get lucky.
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Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.