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Elsie de Wolfe, photograph from The House in Good Taste, 1913. According to The New Yorker, "Interior design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe". [3] [4] She was certainly the most famous name in the field until the 1930s, but the profession of interior decorator/designer was recognized as a promising one as early as 1900, [5] five years before she received her first official ...
Bessie Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe, from My Crystal Ball (published 1923). Bessie Marbury was born and raised in the affluent and cultured home of one of 19th-century New York's oldest and most prominent "society" families.
To speed up the construction process, Frick hired the decorator Elsie de Wolfe to furnish some of the interiors in March 1914, [72] [73] after she wrote him a letter offering to help furnish the house. [184] By that May, The New York Times reported that the Frick House was "rapidly nearing completion". [187]
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Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury, called by The New York Times the "most fashionable Lesbian couple of Victorian New York" lived here from 1892–1911, and de Wolfe may have been instrumental in spreading the Irving rumor. [1] [2]
James Amster (July 18, 1908 – June 11, 1986) was an interior decorator in New York City in the 1960s who created Amster Yard, ... Elsie de Wolfe, ...
The Princess Theatre was a joint venture between the Shubert Brothers, producer Ray Comstock, theatrical agent Elisabeth Marbury and actor-director Holbrook Blinn.Built on a narrow slice of land located at 104–106 West 39th Street, just off Sixth Avenue in New York City, and seating just 299 people, it was one of the smallest Broadway theatres when it opened in early 1913.
Wood began her professional life as a journalist. After moving to New York City and later Boston in the early 1900s and using the byline Ruby Ross Goodnow (her first married name), she wrote fiction, poetry, and articles about interior design for The Delineator, a popular women's magazine, where her editor was Theodore Dreiser.