科学家告诉我们,遗传的线程会变薄,风,但你从未相信从马克汉普顿的女儿Alexa的工作。在她父亲死在1998年,她成为马克·汉普顿Inc .的总裁兼首席设计师,她一直在工作,从13岁起,越来越精通所有的风格设计。在过去的五年里,坚持标准马克·汉普顿坚持她不仅装饰的公寓和房屋,一个150英尺长的游艇,Gulfstream-4喷气和Hispano-Suiza古董车。“一个完整的运输周期,”她laughs-then,孝顺的断层,迅速弥补自己,说:“我的父亲也做了一个私人铁路车。”
当马克·汉普顿的一个长期客户发现,他需要更多的空间,与学龄前儿童和同居,他出去买了一个巨大的新的第五大道的公寓,然后他自然转向Alexa。“我知道她会从内部了解我与马克和我想实现在这里,”说,商人,慈善家,艺术品收藏家(在博纳尔、德加、马蒂斯,毕沙罗,雷诺阿,罗丹和鲁阿尔)。“温暖而舒适的东西,不是大,绝对不是压倒性的。”
完成不是压倒性的壮举,鉴于绝大公寓本身的规模和范围。令人高兴的是,Alexa汉普顿高度重视伊迪丝·华顿的法令“没有大喊大叫,底色会做。”She calmly, coolly and ever so confidently proceeded to renovate and decorate 15 rooms in a neoÐItalian Renaissance palazzo facing The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park (touted as a "multifamily house" when it was erected in 1912 by the august firm of McKim, Mead White, the building did indeed offer apartments the size of town houses, and was able to attract as charter tenants the likes of a Vanderbilt, a Guggenheim, a U.S. senator, and a former New York governor and vice president of the United States).
”我的妻子告诉我她已经找到了理想的公寓,这是在这样完美的条件我们甚至不需要油漆,”客户端叹了口气。“那是第一印象。然后我们每次碰到一堵墙,它崩溃了。你看,有前,不幸的翻修。”Alexa Hampton fills in: "We wound up having to restore almost everything we decided to keep, plus we widened and raised the doors from the gallery to the three major public rooms, and we put in a lot of new mantels."
汉普顿也取代了画廊的小型广场詹姆斯一世的橡树墙板(客户感到他们黑暗与压迫,同时选择保留Jacobean-strapwork上限)与经典,路易XVIÐinspired镶板,安装在所有的房间,原来的镶板被剥夺或乱动。装扮画廊的窗户,已经光滑的墙壁seafoam的颜色,她horizontal-ribbed rice-silk织物用self-ruffle底部有奢华的舞会礼服,和镀金的波兰人在顶部,以及无数的吊灯和烛台,更不用说黄铜和门窗的硬件,使40英尺长的房间里闪闪发光。“硬件是珠宝,”她维护。
大部分的古董家具的公寓在拍卖会上买了客户端在1990年代中期由马克汉普顿。“一些非常好,路易十五和路易十六,“客户说,表明椅子,凳子,胸部、游戏机和洁具的无法超越的恩典和形式。他们现在都找到了完美的设置。“我们当然没有把很多额外的家具在这个公寓,“Alexa汉普顿说。“房间非常强大的架构上,当房间有良好的骨头,他们不需要很多化妆。”
客厅,图书馆和餐厅都是釉面同样纯洁的白色,连续性和流。“我们不想戴上一种颜色,会分散注意力,”她解释说。“模型铸造这样漂亮的阴影,这将是一个遗憾的美味丢失。”She installed mirror within the framework of the windows to bounce the view of the Met around the three rooms. The living room she saw fit to "cozify," which she did by restricting its floor plan to two seating areas, each anchored by a scroll-arm sofa of her own design.
图书馆,两个巨大的矩形之间的平衡,是一个小的椭圆形,汉普顿与墙壁——书架用来曲线”在空间这个尺寸,你可以没有突出出来。”Over the four bookcases and the three doors (as well as over the living and dining room doors) runs a metal grillwork frieze that she sees as functioning "again, like jewelry." She had two tufted love seats made in a concave shape and covered in powder-blue cotton velvet. "Everything in the library is wood-colored, which that nice pale blue relieves," she says, also explaining that "we needed a couple of skirted pieces to give warmth and to break up all the silhouettes, because the room has an awful lot of legs—the two needlepoint Louis XV chairs, the pedestal table, the Regency desk chair, the Louis XV desk. ... "
汉普顿“改造”后面的公寓来创建,除此之外,两个广阔的主浴室。妻子的,她用过量的蓝蓝天曰本丰田大理石,制定自己的模式来模拟波浪;对于丈夫的,浅啡网纹大理石,橡树繁荣。主客厅她设计列与镀金的首都和基地,扔在一些签名格子形图案”,一个令人兴奋的小穿孔金属”否则故意柔和的房间。
主卧室的设计是促使以其精湛的路易十五橡木镶板,购买公寓的第一个房客近一个世纪前在那时所谓的大陆。在the-manner-of-Boucher壁炉架和门头装饰是原来的房间。汉普顿设计的浪漫的床上雕刻的橡树皇冠和icy-peach-silk-upholstered床头板,床上绞刑和床裙。窗帘是塔夫绸,冰冷的桃子;汉普顿的妻子坚持“非常参与所有颜色和面料的选择,“已经要求他们的标题是smocked-a细节设计师认为“一个巨大的成功,也为我们提供了花格门头装饰。”
所有的非常平稳的,完美的平衡房间在遥远的公寓,客户端只能感激地说:“原来只是我们希望的方式,这是acid测试。Alexa的女儿是一个真正的父亲。”
