In the Pink
Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator
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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 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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In the Pink, Carleton Varney
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
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- Titel
- In the Pink
- Untertitel
- Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Carleton Varney
- Verlag
- Pointed Leaf Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2006
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 216
- ISBN10
- 0972766189
- ISBN13
- 9780972766180
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- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Kunst, Architektur, USA, 20. Jahrhundert, Interieurs, Dekorative Kunst
- Beschreibung
- 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 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