In the Pink Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator

E-035: Shannongrove Press, Inc.. Very Good. 2012. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Pointed Leaf Press, Inc. 2012. 216 pgs. Illustrated. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and design present to the boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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, E-035; 12.0 X 11.4 X 1.0 inches; 216 pages .