At an early age, Alexa Hampton learned the language of good design, the vocabulary to speak it, and the elements that define it. As the daughter of interior des

Originally published in the United States in slightly different form by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1989.

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With one hundred essays from one hundred interior designers, spanning stylistic genres from classic to modern, on subjects as varied as "Collecting," "White," "