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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). 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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The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City.Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs.
Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York City/LOC cph.3b45075. Anne Morgan, wearing fur stole, ca. 1915. In 1912, she started the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving (SPUG) with Eleanor Robson Belmont. [10] In 1916, Morgan and De Wolfe largely funded Cole Porter's first Broadway musical, See America First, produced by Marbury. [11] Anne ...
A pleasant greeting is served in a bamboo trellis wallpaper that connects the two spaces, a design of Foster's for Waterhouse Wallhangings that was inspired by New York's iconic Colony Club dining ...
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]