In the Pink: Dorothy Draper America's Most Fabulous Decorator (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Shannongrove Press, Inc.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2016
First published:	July 2012
Authors:	Carleton Varney
Dimensions:	298 x 279 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-9852256-0-5
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > General Promotions
LSN:	0-9852256-0-2
Barcode:	9780985225605

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