In the Pink
Dorothy Draper America's Most Fabulous Decorator
- From the 1930s to the 1960s, Dorothy Draper was the most famous decorator in America. In the Pink documents both her familiar and forgotten achievements
- Carleton Varney is uniquely positioned as the author of this book; he joined the Dorothy Draper, Inc. in 1960, when he was twenty-nine years old
- This is a reprint of the first illustrated monograph on this seminal American designer
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 Draper’s most important projects.
- Publisher
- Shannongrove Press
- ISBN
- 9780985225605
- Published
- 20th Jul 2016
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World
- Size
- 298 mm x 279 mm
- Pages
- 216 Pages
- Illustrations
- 90 color, 180 b&w
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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