In the Pink : Dorothy Draper: America's Most Fabulous Decorator Hardback
by Carleton Varney
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Has there ever been an American decorator as famous as Dorothy Draper?
Like Martha Stewart, Draper was a preacher and teacher whose how-to books and Good Housekeeping columns provided middle-class housewives with affordable ideas for making their homes more functional and comfortable.Thanks to her originality as a stylist and her daring as a businesswoman, she became one of the most respected career women in the United States.
She shocked the design world in 1937 when she decorated the thirty-seven-story Hampshire House apartment hotel on Central Park South in New York City, delivering a project that became indicative of her signature touch - 'baroque fantasy'.
In the Pink: Dorothy Draper, America's Most Fabulous Decorator, by Carleton Varney, lavishly illustrates for the first time Draper s most important projects.
From the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia and Quitandinha in Brazil to her important fabrics for F.
Schumacher & Co. and her automobile and airplane interiors of the 1950s, Draper c
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 200col. & b.&w.
- Publisher:Pointed Leaf Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2006
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- ISBN:9780972766180
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:216 pages, 200col. & b.&w.
- Publisher:Pointed Leaf Press
- Publication Date:15/04/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780972766180
