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Dorothy Draper (November 22, 1889 – March 11, 1969) was an American interior decorator. ... The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955. Rizzoli, New York.
1940s: Dorothy Draper. Like many early interior designers, Dorothy Draper came from a privileged upbringing, and she smartly built the advantage of her wealth and social status into her business ...
Living room in Hollywood Regency style, drawing on its tendency to favor turquoise, mirrors, and strong dark/ white contrasts. Hollywood Regency, sometimes called Regency Moderne, is a design style that describes both interior design and landscape architecture characterized by the bold use of color and contrast often with metallic and glass accents meant to signify both opulence and comfort.
The trustees hired Dorothy Draper, an interior designer, in order to make people want to live in a building which was at some point an empty shell on one of the most visible streets. [ 3 ] [ 29 ] According to The New York Times , the rooms featured "daring contrasts of black, white and turquoise, overscale plaster carving, mirrors and glass ...
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The Grand Design, a 2022 novel by Joy Callaway, is a fictionalized life story of the interior decorator Dorothy Draper during her redesign of the Greenbrier, published by HarperCollins. The historical fiction novel In the Shadow of the Greenbrier , by Emily Matchar , tells the story of four generations of a Jewish family living near the ...
Dorothy Draper of the New York Herald Tribune wrote in 1948 that, while the front door stood out from the surrounding neighborhood, the "perfect proportions of the large rooms with their high ceilings and heavy moldings" were the most notable part of the interior. [157]
A typical example of 1960s wallpaper. Note the pea green and saffron colours and the flowery psychedelic design, common during this period. 1960s décor refers to a distinct style of interior decoration that became prominent in the 1960s and early 1970s. Green, (such as pea green and drab), yellow, pink, and orange (such as peach and saffron ...