Paris drawing room by Renzo Mongiardino: Watercolor by Mark Hampton

Apart from just a name perfect for his occupation, decorater Mark Hampton brought to the trade an unerring tastepoint and a formidable degree of erudition about his predecessors. "Legendary Decoraters" was the seminal text that drew me towards the world of interior design when I stumbled across the book in the Brooklyn Library 6 years ago. Now I'm estatic to have my very own copy if only to sigh over the elegance of the book's gorgeous watercolors of some of the most legendary rooms of all time. Look at this Paris drawing room by Renzo Mongiardino. You can feel the genius of that opulence married to an effortless comfort.