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In the Pink : Dorothy Draper: America's Most Fabulous Decorator by Carleton Varney (2006, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherShannongrove Press

ISBN-100972766189

ISBN-139780972766180

eBay Product ID (ePID)50930661

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn the Pink : Dorothy Draper: America's Most Fabulous Decorator

Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicInterior Design / General, Decorating, General

IllustratorYes

GenreHouse & Home, Architecture, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorCarleton Varney

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight72.1 Oz

Item Length11.9 in

Item Width11.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-909656

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal747.092

Designed byCliff, Stafford

SynopsisHas 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, 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 continues to influence designers today.

LC Classification NumberNK2115

Text byShaw, Dan