Dara Caponigro

[1][2] Over her career as a magazine editor she has held senior roles at House Beautiful, Elle Décor, Domino and Veranda[2] Caponigro is the author or co-author of four books about design.

In 1986 she began working at House Beautiful magazine, owned by Hearst as an Editorial Assistant, rising to Decoration Director under Editor-in-Chief Louis Oliver Gropp.

[7] In that role she contributed to the discovery of emerging interior designers who would go on to high profile acclaim, including Miles Redd, Thomas O’Brien, Sheila Bridges,[8] and Vicente Wolf.

[9] Although Domino won a "cult" following[10] and received multiple honors including being named Hot List Start Up of the Year by Adweek, it was closed by Condé Nast during the financial crisis in 2009.

[27] When asked by The Wall Street Journal about her all-time favorite car she described a "red 1964 Volvo 122S that I bought on eBay in 2000…If you turned the wheel too hard, the horn went off.