EAST HAMPTON DESIGN DAY

With a career spanning over three decades, Charlotte Moss is considered one of the most celebrated and respected interior designers in the industry.

Since launching her eponymous firm in 1985, Charlotte’s name has become synonymous with Southern warmth and hospitality. She has designed private residences and executive suites across the United States and abroad, and her retail stores have achieved wide acclaim.

Moss’s designs are heavily influenced by her travels and her love of history. She has used her experience culled throughout her career to design licensed collections with Century Furniture, Fabricut, Stark Carpet, Pickard, P .E. Guerin, Soicher-Marin, IBU Clothing, Artemis Design Company and more. Known for her timeless aesthetic, layered interiors, and keen eye, her work is celebrated in eleven volumes, the most recent title with Rizzoli publications: Charlotte Moss Flowers (2021) and Home: A Celebration: Notable Voices Reflect on the Meaning of Home(2021) which benefits the non-profit, No Kid Hungry.Charlotte supports a variety of causes and sits on several boards; she is Emerita Trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, on the Board of The Bone Marrow Foundation, The Madoo Conservancy and the International Council of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens.

Charlotte’s designs have been featured in many major publications. Accolades include the New York School of Interior Design’s Centennial Medal, The Royal Oak Foundation’s Timeless Design award, and Elle Décor’s Grand Master’s List of Designers.

Charlotte holds an Honorary Doctorate Degree from The New York School of Interior Design as well as Virginia Commonwealth University, her alma mater.

Margot Shaw is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flower Magazine. Now in its 19^th year, the publication features homes, gardens, entertaining, and lifestyle. Margot is a sought-after speaker at antique and garden shows, museums, botanical gardens, and interior design centers nationwide. She is the author of two books: Living Floral: Entertaining and Decorating with Flowers (2018) and Flowering Outdoors: Gardens & Parties (February 2026), both published by Rizzoli.

A native of Kansas City, Marshall Watson received his Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University. Watson founded his design firm, Marshall Watson Interiors in 1986. A subtle blend of transatlantic and American design philosophies suffuses his work. Classic elegance is his hallmark. Though richly layered and often romantic, his work always showcases a meticulous attention to detail and is noted for its sense of “calm and lightness of being.” As his client base has grown globally, his passion for researching and delving into each culture has only expanded his ability to be site specific and locally attuned.

Throughout Watson’s career, his designs have appeared on the covers of Architectural Digest, Veranda, Traditional Home, Ocean Home, and Hampton Cottages and Gardens and his interiors have also been richly explored in publications including House Beautiful, Luxe, the New York Times Interior Design and many others. He also received Traditional Home’s “Designer of the Year” award and has been featured on Luxe’s Gold List.

Marshall's top selling design book, The Art of Elegance, was published by Rizzoli in 2017. His second book, Defining Elegance, was released this spring. Responses to Marshall’s lectures have garnered him distinguished status as a “Gold Star Speaker” for the Garden Club of America, reflecting exceptional talent, dedication and a profound impact made on the community as across the country.

Watson serves on the boards of the Garden Conservancy, the Isabel O’Neill Studio of the Painted Finish and Fighting Chance. He is currently a member of the Garden Club of East Hampton (GCA) where his garden is being documented for the Archives of the Smithsonian, and he is co-heading the cultivation of a public garden in East Hampton dedicated to the study of 18th century American horticulture.

Watson resides in Manhattan and spends weekends with his husband at his home and garden in East Hampton.

 

Jacqueline Terrebonne serves as Galerie’s Editor-in-Chief, after originally coming on to the team in the role of Design Editor in 2016. Jacqueline’s diverse interests and deep sense of curiosity inform the diverse and eclectic mix of design, fashion, and visual arts in every issue of the magazine. In addition to being a member of BAFTA and the James Beard Foundation, she has authored and co-authored several books, including Everyday Decorating (Rizzoli, 2019), Finding Home: The Houses of Pursley Dixon (Rizzoli, 2021), and, most recently, The Art of Modern Design: The Interiors of James Magni & Jason Kalma (Monacelli, 2025).

Jacqueline has worked in diverse capacities across the media landscape for decades, including roles at Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Martha Stewart Living. She honed her marketing skills at Scholastic during the Harry Potter heyday, where she developed and designed launch materials for the releases of new titles.

 

Dara Caponigro is chief creative officer of FS&CO, the 135-year-old American heritage company comprised of Schumacher, a luxury design house specializing in fabric, wallpaper, and home accessories; Patterson Flynn, a prestigious rug firm; Backdrop, a paint and wallpaper company with a fresh perspective; and Frederic Media, a multi-platform business devoted to generating best-in-class design content.

Caponigro is also creative director of Schumacher, where she directs and oversees product development, marketing, licensing partnerships, visual merchandising, and the design of new offices, showrooms, and boutiques.

At Frederic Media, she is editor-in-chief of FREDERIC magazine, and oversees fredericmagazine.com, Frederic Entertainment, and Frederic Books.

Caponigro is the author of The Authentics: A Lush Dive into the Substance of Style (Clarkson Potter), Domino: The Book of Decorating (Simon & Schuster), S Is for Style: The Schumacher Book of Decoration(Rizzoli), Decorate like a Decorator (Monacelli), FREDERIC: The Last Word in Chic (Monacelli) and Glorious Gardens(Monacelli).

Prior to joining Schumacher, Caponigro held numerous illustrious positions as an editor in the magazine publishing business, specializing in interior design and architecture. Most recently, she was the editor in chief of Veranda, which she established as a global luxury brand.

Caponigro was also a founding editor at Domino, where she was style director from 2004 to 2009. Previously, she was design and decoration director at Elle Décor and decorating director at House Beautiful. She began her career at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.

Caponigro is known for her ability to develop and invigorate brands, whether that means breathing new life into existing companies or building new ones from scratch. With her discerning eye and uncanny skill for knowing her audience, she is able to analyze a property’s existing assets, give it a distinct personality, and help it evolve to its fullest potential.

Tom Scheerer began his decorating career in the mid-1980s, after graduating fromCooper Union with a degree in architecture. He formed his own firm in 1995. Over the ensuing three decades, he has become renowned for his signature style—a “relaxed modernism,” as he calls it. Whether a city apartment, a country house, or a tropical getaway, the same aesthetic prevails: comfort and ease derived from perfect proportions and fresh, unpretentious beauty. It seems utterly effortless, belying the fierce intelligence, impeccable eye, and encyclopedic knowledge of design history behind every decorating decision. As Architectural Digest put it, “If a no-nonsense decorator sounds like an oxymoron, Scheerer proves otherwise. Unfussy precision is where his talent reigns.” The New York Times considers Scheerer “perhaps . . . the most expert proponent today” of “the vanishing art of great American design, as pioneered by Van Day Truex, Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley.” 

He is the subject of Tom Scheerer Decorates and the author of Tom Scheerer: More Decorating and Tom Scheerer: Still Decorating. His work has been included in such design compendiums as Inspired Design: The 100 Most Important Designers of the Past 100 Years and is regularly featured in Architectural Digest, Town & Country, T Magazine, House Beautiful, and Elle Decor, among many other national and international publications. He is annually named to Elle Decor’s A-List Titans. He currently lives in Palm Beach but makes frequent trips tohis homes in East Hampton, Paris, Maine, and Abaco in the Bahamas

Cathy Kincaid’s enviable sense of color and intricate design detail has established her as oneof the country’s top designers and an editorial favorite whose work is published  For more than 30 years, Kincaid has designed houses for her clients that are as individual as they are. A recipient of the ICAA’s John Staub Award, Kincaid is highly respected for her commitment to restoring old houses and filling them with traditionally stylish antiques and furnishings. From a historic Beaux Arts Estate in Dallas and a 1750’s Ship Captain’s Cottage in Old Lyme, CT to a Mas de Baraquet in the South of France, Kincaid’s interiors evoke a sense of comfortable elegance that remains unmatched. Kincaid offers a diverse combination of old and new design elements, but her primary goal as a designer remains: to create inviting, livable spaces with her clients’ happiness the top priority. 

Kincaid has worked on a number of houses designed by noted Dallas architect Hal Thomson –whose work is compared to John Staub in Houston or David Adler in the Midwest. “One of the things I love about restoring houses is the value of ‘the mix.’ It is the one aspect of design that I adhere to—the old with the new, the ornate with the simple, the refined with the rustic. This approach expresses the personality of the client and charms their guests,” says Kincaid.

Educated at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, Kincaid began her career with a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design. Kincaid’s post graduate work with the prestigious firm of Minton & Corley in Fort Worth, further prepared her for industry success. Upon moving to Dallas, Texas in 1976, she signed on as a designer with John Aston Perkins, the legendary designer for some of the most influential families of Texas. In 1978 Kincaid established a style all her own with the creation of Cathy Kincaid Interiors, Ltd.

Kincaid’s work has been featured in several books including Farrow & Ball: The Art of Color and D.Porthault Linens. In Fall 2019 Rizzoli published The Well-Adorned Home by Cathy Kincaid and her September 2026 book Cathy Kincaid Memorable Rooms: Artisanal Collaborations.

Amy Astley is the Global Editorial Director and Editor in Chief, U.S. for AD. In addition to overseeing all editorial content, Astley is committed to reimagining and expanding the brand’s digital presence across every platform and format, and furthering the reach of AD’s design authority.

Since Astley was named, AD has experienced unprecedented growth across all platforms and where the brand’s digital presence previously functioned solely as an extension of the print edition, AD now boasts a rapidly expanding social footprint, a hit video series on YouTube, and multiple digital-only verticals: AD PRO, a B2B membership service featuring authoritative coverage and breaking news for the design industry, Clever, which takes on the unique challenges of designing a smaller space; offering design advice for real life and AD It Yourself, which features elevated DIY projects and actionable advice with content covering what to buy,what to do, and how to do it. Astley is also the author of the best-selling book, AD at 100: A Century of Style, which celebrates the most incredible homes of the past century.

Prior to AD, Astley was the founding editor of Teen Vogue,launched in 2003, where she helped build a dynamic lifestyle brand that has thrived in the new media environment over the last decade. During Astley’s tenure, Teen Vogue was nominated twice for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence; she oversaw a series of successful licensing deals including bedding and back-to-school products; and Astley’s 2009 New York Times best-seller, “The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion” was updated and reissued by Penguin in 2014.

Astley has spent a great deal of her career immersed in art, design and fashion, including five years at House & Garden and nearly a decade at Vogue.

Astley graduated from the Honors College at Michigan State University. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.