EAST HAMPTON DESIGN DAYS: LECTURE SERIES PRESENTED BY GUILD HALL & NIVENBREEN

Aerin Lauder is the Founder and Creative Director of AERIN, a celebrated luxury lifestyle brand that launched in the fall of 2012. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, Lauder began her career at Estée Lauder in 1992. She held various executive roles, including Senior Vice President and Creative Director, throughout her time there. In addition to her work at AERIN, Lauder currently maintains her role as Style & Design Director, Estée Lauer Re-Nutriv. Inspired by Lauder's signature, effortless style, AERIN reflects its founder’s personal ease and sophistication. In a short time, AERIN has emerged as a distinct voice in the world of beauty, fashion, and home décor.

Throughout his career, Brian Sawyer has pursued architectural design, landscape architecture, and interior design as complementary endeavors. Originally from Indiana, Brian attended Wabash College, where he studied music and biology, and earned his Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the ASLA, and a board member of the Perfect Earth Project and The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

DAVID KLEINBERG is one of the most respected names in interior design.  Over a thirty-year career, with projects reaching around the world, Kleinberg has created a body of work that is wide-ranging in style yet always modern in sensibility. 

After graduating from Trinity College in 1976, Kleinberg explored the New York design world while working first at Denning & Fourcade and then at Mara Palmer.  His talents were further honed during a sixteen-year tenure at the venerable Parish-Hadley Associates where he became Mrs. Parish’s right hand and was further mentored by Albert Hadley.  Kleinberg left the firm in 1997 to start DAVID KLEINBERG DESIGN ASSOCIATES.  Since then the firm has grown exponentially and employs.

This Spring Kleinberg announced a corporate expansion naming five long-standing principal designers equity partners in DAVID KLEINBERG DESIGN ASSOCIATES.  Those partners, listed in order of seniority include Scott Sloat, Sean Matijevich, Lance Scott, Christina Maroni, and Matthew Bemis.  Kleinberg first participated in the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club  Decorator Show House when he founded DKDA.  He returns this year in collaboration with his team of newly established partners.

Kleinberg’s book TRADITIONAL NOW: INTERIORS BY DAVID KLEINBERG (Monacelli Press) was published in 2011. In the same year he received the honor of being inducted into Interior Design magazine’s “Hall of Fame”.  Kleinberg’s work is published internationally and he has been named to the Architectural Digest  “AD 100”,  Elle Décor “A List”, and House Beautiful “Master Class.”   Kleinberg has two rug collections with Patterson Flynn & Martin.

For more information on David Kleinberg, please explore our website www.dkda.com

 David Netto is a Los Angeles-based interior designer and writer. He has written on architecture and design for the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Cabana, and other publications, and he currently writes the “Case Studies” column for Town & Country. He is the author of monographs on François Catroux and Stephen Sills, and most recently, authored a monograph on architect Rosario Candela. His interiors have appeared in Vogue, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Town & Country, and Veranda. In 2023, a self-titled book representing 20 years of his own designs was published with Vendome. 

Edmund Hollander is president of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, the only landscape architecture firm elected to Architectural Digest’s AD100 Designers List, given an ICAA Arthur Ross Award, and honored with multiple national awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). 

Edmund Hollander is an elected Fellow of the ASLA, one of the society’s highest honors. He serves on the Dean’s Council and the Advisory Board of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is on the Board of Trustees for the New York Restoration Project, the nonprofit founded by Bette Midler with a mission to create beautiful, high-quality public space for all New Yorkers.  Edmund is on the Advisory Board for the Landscape Architecture program at City College of the City University of New York and has lectured at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the New York Botanical Garden, and other design-focused institutions. His contributions as a board member of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art include support of the institution’s growing landscape architecture curriculum. He is Past President of the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). In 2023, Edmund was commended as the “Person of the Year” in the Village of Sag Harbor for donating time, talent and resources to create and restore significant public spaces in the Village.

Edmund graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor’s in history, followed by study at the New York Botanical Garden School of Horticulture. He received a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Soon after, he joined The Delta Group in Philadelphia and then the venerable New York firm of Clarke and Rapuano before founding Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects with his partner, Maryanne Connelly, in 1991.

Fernando Wong has been called “one of the best landscape designers in the world by the Chelsea Design Centre in London, "one of the most influential landscape designers in America” by Elle Décor, “a genius with the soul of a poet” by Garden Design Magazine, a “landscape legend” by Forbes, and “the creative mind behind Miami’s lushest landscapes” by Architectural Digest. His television show “Clipped” with Martha Stewart is on the HGTV/Discovery Plus channels and his work has been featured on The Today Show as well as in magazines and newspapers around the world. 

VICTORIA HAGAN is one of the country’s most celebrated interior designers, whose work has continually epitomized modern American luxury. Since founding her eponymous firm over 25 years ago, Victoria has been celebrated for her intelligent integration of architecture and interior design. With offices in New York City and Palm Beach, her firm works on a broad range of influential residences throughout the country, providing a complete range of design services that reflect her signature style.

Victoria’s success is exemplified in her many top design honors, including Architectural Digest’s AD100 and the Elle Décor A-List. She has been inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, she also serves on the school’s board of governors and has endowed a scholarship in its MFA Program in Interior Design.