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  2. Elsie de Wolfe - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Anne Morgan (philanthropist) - Wikipedia

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    In 1903, she became part owner of the Villa Trianon near Versailles, France, along with decorator and socialite Elsie De Wolfe and theatrical/literary agent Elisabeth Marbury. [4] Morgan was instrumental in assisting De Wolfe, her close friend, in pioneering a career in interior decoration.

  4. Charles Mendl - Wikipedia

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    Mendl married interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe in 1926, at which point he was head of the press section in the British embassy in Paris, with the wedding held at the British consulate in Paris. [8] [9] De Wolfe was living in a lesbian relationship with Elisabeth Marbury, and the marriage allowed her to use the title "Lady". De Wolfe paid Mendl ...

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  6. The Decoration of Houses - Wikipedia

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    The Decoration of Houses is considered a seminal work and its success led to the emergence of professional decorators working in the manner advocated by its authors, most notably Elsie de Wolfe. [1] The book was reprinted by The Mount and Rizzoli and in a hardcover facsimile in 2007.

  7. Elisabeth Marbury - Wikipedia

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    On the domestic front, Marbury was instrumental in assisting her romantic partner, Elsie de Wolfe, in creating a career in interior decoration and in 1903 restoring Villa Trianon in Versailles, France, where she, de Wolfe, and Anne Tracy Morgan (youngest child of the powerful financier, J.P. Morgan) held court and became noted hostesses ...

  8. Ruby Ross Wood - Wikipedia

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    Her Delineator articles under the byline of the interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe formed the basis of de Wolfe's decorating manual The House in Good Taste, for which Goodnow also was the ghostwriter. She also ghostwrote de Wolfe's Ladies Home Journal articles, which later were adapted for The House in Good Taste and continued to contribute ...

  9. List of American heiresses - Wikipedia

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    Elsie Mendl, Lady Mendl (née Ella "Elsie" Anderson De Wolfe) on 10 March 1926 [447] Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness ( née Thelma Morgan, previously Converse) on 27 June 1926 [ 448 ] Princess David Mdivani ( née Marie Adrienne Koenig, aka Mae Murray ) on 27 June 1926 [ 449 ] [ Note 7 ]