In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780985225605)

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

Author: Carleton Varney
ISBN-10: 0985225602
ISBN-13: 9780985225605
Publisher: Shannongrove Press, Inc.
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2016
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.25lbs
Size: 12.00h x 11.30w x 1.00d