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Honorary Chair Luncheon
featuring
Keynote Speaker Mary McDonald and
Moderator Dana Caponigro

Monday, April 28, 2025
Tickets priced at $160 per person feature
signature bites, sandwiches and salads from SPACE 519’s The Lunchroom,
an advance copy of Glorious Gardens: Private Edens of the World's Leading Interior Designers,
and admission to tour the showhouse.

 

Mary McDonald

World renowned Los Angeles-based interior designer Mary McDonald has been named as the showhouse’s Honorary Chair and will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon on April 28, 2025. Dara Caponigro, Chief Creative Officer of F. Schumacher & Co., and Editor-in-Chief of design magazine FREDERIC, will serve as the moderator and sign advance copies of her new book Glorious Gardens: Private Edens of the World's Leading Interior Designers, to be released in May 2025. 

Mary McDonald is an award-winning, internationally-published Los Angeles-based interior designer. She starred in Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Decorators” and "Property Envy" series and is consistently ranked as one of House Beautiful’s “Top 100 Designers.” McDonald is the author of Interiors: The Allure of Style from Rizzoli and has been honored as one of the top 25 designers by Veranda Magazine. Her licensed product lines include an acclaimed fabric collection for Schumacher, lighting for Robert Abbey, rugs for Schumacher sister company PFM, and furniture for Chaddock Home. She is currently working on her second book.

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Glorious Gardens

Glorious Gardens: Private Edens of the World’s Leading Interior Designers, from FREDERIC and Monacelli, invites readers into the enchanting outdoor spaces that serve as personal retreats and wellsprings of inspiration for famed designers including Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Katie Ridder, Charlotte Moss, Todd Nickey, Mark D. Sikes, Bunny Williams, Stephen Sills, Thomas O’Brien, and many more. Glorious Gardens will appeal to interiors and garden enthusiasts alike, and will transform the reader’s perception of what a garden can be.

Dara Caponigro

Dara Caponigro is the Editor-in-Chief of FREDERIC Magazine, and Creative Director of Schumacher. She is a longtime trailblazer in the magazine industry as the former Editor-in-Chief of Veranda, a founding editor of Domino and the Decoration Director of both Elle Décor and House Beautiful.

She is the author of S is for Style, The Authentics and Domino: The Book of Decorating.

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