"There must be 50 to choose from, and 20 that I've used," said Mark Hampton, a decorator.

Mark Hampton, who decorated the board room, said the legs "are meant to recall columns all over the Met."

"If you're used to going to Mark Hampton, have spent millions, and you buy a third house, do you go back to the firm?"

Mark Hampton was one of America's leading decorators until his death in 1998.

As the decorator Mark Hampton once noted, nothing ages a room more than a fussy lampshade.

Soon after arriving, they asked Mark Hampton to decorate.

For Mark Hampton, it was a pair of shutters he painted as a boy.

It is, as Mark Hampton, who makes a cameo appearance in the book, observes, "an eyewitness job."

Mark Hampton, the American decorator, once called it the most beautiful house in the world, marveling at its confidence.

Alexa Hampton, you know, Mark Hampton's daughter, we couldn't have done it without her!

"There must be 50 to choose from, and 20 that I've used," said Mark Hampton, a decorator.

Mark Hampton, who decorated the board room, said the legs "are meant to recall columns all over the Met."

"If you're used to going to Mark Hampton, have spent millions, and you buy a third house, do you go back to the firm?"

Mark Hampton was one of America's leading decorators until his death in 1998.

As the decorator Mark Hampton once noted, nothing ages a room more than a fussy lampshade.

Soon after arriving, they asked Mark Hampton to decorate.

For Mark Hampton, it was a pair of shutters he painted as a boy.

It is, as Mark Hampton, who makes a cameo appearance in the book, observes, "an eyewitness job."

Mark Hampton, the American decorator, once called it the most beautiful house in the world, marveling at its confidence.

Alexa Hampton, you know, Mark Hampton's daughter, we couldn't have done it without her!