num_pages: 216
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 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 &amp; Co. and her automobile and airplane interiors of the 1950s, Draper c
language: English
title: In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator
titlecomplete: In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator
genres: Nonfiction, Architecture, Design, Art, Photography
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Pointed Leaf Press