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TRADITIONAL HOME
THE 2012 HAMPTON DESIGNER SHOWHOUSE
THE HAMPTON DESIGNER SHOWHOUSE Foundation, Inc. is led and operated by a
dynamic team of experts from the worlds of marketing, public relations, fundraising, and special events production. This is the 12th year they have combined their talents to produce what is now recognized as one of the country’s most successful showhouses. Hampton Designer Showhouse Foundation, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Anthony Manning is the Showhouse marketing chairman and also president of Mitchell Manning Associates, a full service public relations and marketing agency with a special focus on the home furnishings industry. His realm is the creation of the full-scale public awareness campaign that has propelled the Hampton Designer Showhouse to national prominence in three short years, with phenomenal coverage in local and national newspaper media, home design magazines, and television. He has also directed the packaging and sales of various sponsorships that have linked the Showhouse to a variety of corporations in the publishing, banking, home design, and related fields. The administration of the 1,001 details that comprise the planning and day-to-day man-
Tony Manning; Mary Lynch.
agement of the Showhouse is under the control of the highly talented Mary Lynch, whose background as the director of special events at Southampton Hospital for 12 years makes her uniquely qualified to administer the myriad complexities involved in running a Showhouse. These range from supervising the rejuvenation of the house to coordinating the diverse needs of the designers creating their individual “fantasy space” within the Showhouse. The Hampton Designer Showhouse Foundation, Inc. has produced the Hampton Designer Showhouse benefiting Southampton Hospital for ten years, The Designer Showhouse of New Jersey benefiting The John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center for four years, The Greenwich Designer Showhouse benefiting Greenwich Hospital in spring 2007, The Orchard Hill Designer Showhouse benefiting Old Westbury Gardens in spring 2008, and Holiday House benefiting the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. With this skilled, focused, and hardworking “Dream Team” behind it, the stage is set for this year’s Hampton Designer Showhouse to once again be a spectacular design tour de force.
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