Mark Hampton

Mark Hampton (born Mark Iredell Hampton Jr., June 1, 1940 – July 23, 1998) was an American interior designer, writer, and illustrator, known primarily for his residential interior design work for clients such as Brooke Astor, Estee Lauder, Mike Wallace, Saul Steinberg, H. John Heinz III, and Lincoln Kirstein, as well as for three U.S. presidents.

[4] Hampton showed early inclinations toward an artistic life, and by the time he was twelve years old, considered himself to be a designer.

His early influences were interior designer Billy Baldwin, and architects Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Phillip Johnson.

[6] Hampton graduated from DePauw University (BA 1962), and while there, he studied at the London School of Economics as an exchange student for one semester.

After completing his studies at NYU, Hampton was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship, funding travel abroad.

[7] Hampton worked part-time, while at NYU, for the interior designer Sister Parish, and then for several years managed Hicks's New York office.

[7][8] He opened his own firm, Mark Hampton LLC, in 1976,[3] and during the course of his career, designed the interiors of numerous residences, offices, hotels, private clubs, railroad cars, airplanes, and boats.

[11] In 1989, Hampton completed a renovation of the American Academy in Rome's historic Villa Aurelia, including the installation of "elaborate silk draperies"and the restoration of over 300 pieces of antique furniture.

[12] In 1998, Hampton and Kaki Hockersmith renovated the State Dining Room at the White House for First Lady Hillary Clinton.

[22] His watercolor of the White House Green Room was featured on President Reagan's and the First Lady's holiday greeting card in 1983.