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Learning The Language Of Interior Design
Just as you can master a foreign language like Chinese, you can learn the language of interior design, says New York interior designer Alexa Hampton. "In fact, when you look at a room, you're reading it," she says. "It's a vocabulary that you can learn." Hampton, who is the honorary co-chair and one of the speakers at this weekend's Interior Inspirations event in Old Lyme, decodes that language in her new book, "The Language of Interior Design" [Clarkson Potter, 256 pages, $50], published earlier this month. The books showcases 18 of her projects, including the New York apartment Hampton shares with her husband, Pavlos Papageorgiou and their twin boys, Michalis and Markos, 4, and daughter Aliki, 2. Some of the homes are "fancy with a PH," as she puts it. "I enjoy some of the fancier aspects, sometimes for their sheer improbability." But she offers plenty of down-to-earth insights on furniture plans, lighting, fabric and seating. Most helpfully, Hampton breaks the design process into four basic elements: contrast, proportion, color and balance. Hampton equates contrast with a verb — the tension and action that keep the eye engaged and moving around a room. Proportion serves as the grammar — the spatial relationships in a room. Color would be the descriptive adjectives. Finally, balance, which underlies the entire composition, gives each item relevance and meaning. It involves the relationships of textures and colors, the yin-and-yang interplay between old and new, between masculine and feminine; between formality and tradition and comfort and approachability. During an interview last week — the day of her tenth wedding anniversary, which she was spending away from her husband at the Fall Furniture Market in High Point, N.C. — Hampton laughed that she had been "muscled" into writing the book, which was co-authored by Jill Kirchner Simpson, with gorgeous photographs by Scott Frances. Even so, it's clear Hamtpon's ideas on the vocabulary of design percolated for quite a while. Seven years before even starting on the book, she says, she registered the domain name she would use for its title. Childhood Homes Hampton doesn't plan to focus on her book when she speaks Saturday at 2 p.m. at Interior Inspirations, an event she is co-chairing with her aunt, New York interior designer Paula Perlini. Instead, she plans to talk about the homes she grew up in. http://articles.courant.com/2010-10-22/features/hc-lyme-design-alexa-hampton-1022-20101022_1_pavlos-papageorgiou-alexa-hampton-foreign-language |
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