| In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator Contributor(s): Varney, Carleton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0985225602 ISBN-13: 9780985225605 Publisher: Shannongrove Press, Inc. OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers - House & Home | Decorating & Furnishings |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 11.3" W x 12" (4.25 lbs) 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 |
