Draper Dorothy
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The Grand Design
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Author : Joy Callaway
language : en
Publisher: Harper Muse
Release Date : 2022-05-17
The Grand Design written by Joy Callaway and has been published by Harper Muse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-17 with Fiction categories.
She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. Only the aristocracy’s annual summer trips to The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of the passion and adventure she wants. But her family intervenes, sentencing Dorothy to the life she hopes to escape. Thirty-eight years later, as World War II draws to a close, Dorothy has done everything a woman in the early twentieth century should not: she has divorced her husband—scandalous—and established America’s first interior design firm—shocking. Now, Dorothy returns to The Greenbrier with the assignment to restore it to something even greater than its original glory. With her beloved company’s future hanging in the balance and brimming with daring, unconventional ideas, Dorothy has one more chance to give her dreams wings or succumb to her what society tells her is her inescapable fate. Based on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Grand Design is a moving tale of one woman’s quest to transform the walls that hold her captive. “Five Stars!” —Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc. “As captivating and confident as the heroine at its center.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil “Full of luscious details of fashion and luxury!” —Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott “A dazzling, intimate portrait.” —Louise Claire Johnson, author of Behind the Red Door “Historical fiction at its finest!” —Elyssa Friedland, author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel Historical novel centered around America’s first female interior designer Stand-alone novel Book length: 109,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs
The Draper Touch
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Author : Carleton Varney
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1988
The Draper Touch written by Carleton Varney and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Architecture categories.
"Dorothy Draper was outrageous, controversial, irreverent, and the top interior decorator of her time. The great-great granddaughter of Oliver Wolcott - whose signature is on the Declaration of Independence - Dorothy Draper was born in 1889 in the exclusive community of Tuxedo Park, New York. Brought up where beautiful surroundings were a birthright, she broke with tradition by turning her aesthetic sense into a profitable career. And what a career. Dorothy Draper reinvented the profession of interior decorating. Rejecting the dowdy color schemes of the Edwardian era, she made brilliant colors, big floral patterns, and bold contrasts her trademark. At a time when creating a perfect period setting was a decorator's goal, she dismissed the use of antiques as an insecurity; ignoring historical accuracy, her advice was to 'jumble periods cheerfully.' An iconoclast who thought nothing of telling clients to dye antique Persian rugs, Draper's interiors formed the backdrop to the elite of her day. When Dorothy Draper transformed three row houses on New York's Sutton Place, she changed the then shabby neighborhood into one of the most prestigious in Manhattan. The pinnacle of her career was perhaps the renovation of the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, and its opening in 1948 was a great social event. America's wealthiest families were there along with Vanderbilts, Astors, and Whitneys, the guests of honor were the duke and duchess of Windsor. Draper had designed everything from the servants' uniforms to the ballroom chandelier. Though given to moments of frivolity, Dorothy Draper's patrician manner seemed grand and uncompromising, often alienating her staff as well as clients. Many of her professional colleagues were unimpressed: The architect Frank Lloyd Wright was so appalled by her taste that he publicly called her an "inferior desecrator." But whatever her detractors said, there were many for whom her word was the final one."
Draper Dorothy
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In The Pink
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Author : Carleton Varney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
In The Pink written by Carleton Varney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Decorative arts categories.
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, Draper continues to influence designers today.
Entertaining Is Fun
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Author : Dorothy Draper
language : en
Publisher: Antique Collector's Club
Release Date : 2016-06-30
Entertaining Is Fun written by Dorothy Draper and has been published by Antique Collector's Club this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Entertaining categories.
"Originally published in 1941, Dorothy Draper extends her decorating philosophy to hosting and proves that living well never goes out of fashion. This is a book on making living fun. On having your friends to the house and on how to give them a good time. With her wit and can-do flair, Draper guides aspiring hosts and hostesses on how to excel at dinner parties, holiday meals, weekend guests, weddings, and more. And indeed, Draper's secret is simple: If a hostess has fun, her guests will too!" --
Decorating Is Fun
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Author : Dorothy Draper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Decorating Is Fun written by Dorothy Draper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Interior Decoration categories.
The World Of Ruth Draper
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Author : Dorothy Warren
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1999
The World Of Ruth Draper written by Dorothy Warren and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The World of Ruth Draper: A Portrait of an Actress captures the life of the internationally acclaimed monologist and the familial, social, and theatrical worlds in which she lived from the late nineteenth century to the mid-1950s. Dorothy Warren draws on correspondence with family and friends, theatrical reviews, personal interviews, and her own long relationship with Ruth Draper in crafting this biography. Born in New York City in 1884, Ruth Draper began giving monologues at private parties and schools at the age of twenty-six and made her professional debut in 1920 at London's AEolian Hall. In charting the course of Draper's impressive career, Warren follows her performances on stages around the world, including private recitals for Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the royal families of Britain, Spain, and Belgium. Warren also devotes a significant discussion to Draper's relationship with Lauro de Bosis, the Italian poet and political activist whose 1931 disappearance while dropping anti-Fascist pamphlets over Rome remains unexplained. Draper's long stage reign ended when she died in her sleep following a performance in New York City in December 1956. Ruth Draper's specialty was the monologue, a dramatic composition for a single performer evoking other characters upon the stage. She had in her repertoire sixty dramatic sketches featuring fifty-two characters whom she performed, as well as 316 others whom she evoked during the course of the sketches. Some of her better-known sketches were Opening the Bazaar, Vive la France -- 1940, The Scottish Immigrant, The Actress, and In County Kerry. Draper's unique quality was her ability to project an illusion, to evoke upon the stagethe characters with whom she conversed and interacted. Lynn Fontanne said of this faculty of Draper's: "There is the flavor of parlor magic in it -- something of conjuring". Bernard Levin, writing in the Times of London on April 4, 1988, recalls Draper's talent for evocation as "truly hallucinating" and adds, "Before the curtain came down, real hallucination had set in and we could see on the stage a crowd of people who were not there!" Eleonora Duse declared, "Ruth Draper is theater". The World of Ruth Draper features twenty-three illustrations.
Draper Touch High Life High Style Dorhb
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Author : VARNEY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-06-13
Draper Touch High Life High Style Dorhb written by VARNEY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with categories.
* A must have for those fascinated with the history of the interior design business as well as the history of New York City, where Draper lived and designed some of her most famous projects such as the Carlyle Hotel* Features personal and archival photographs by fashion and society photographers Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton and Andre Kértéz whose images were published in the 1920s in Vogue magazine* Insightful texts are based on interviews with Draper's family, former staff of the company and the author's personal memories of Dorothy Draper who was referred to as the 'Duchess of Decorating'* Extensive appendices that include never-before-seen Draper documentsDesigner and interior decorator Dorothy Draper's color-filled life story is one of high society, money, gossip, and throughout it all, reinvention. Carleton Varney has owned and directed Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc., for almost 60 years. He worked with Mrs. Draper at the end of her illustrious career, and wrote the only biography of her life, The Draper Touch: The High Life and High Style of Dorothy Draper, in 1988. In the book, Varney sets the scene and defines the milieu that Draper was born into in 1889 and from which she escaped to become one of America's leaders in design--a true visionary entrepreneur. Thirty-three years later, Shannongrove Press is releasing this deluxe edition of The Draper Touch. With a new foreword by Varney, newly found photographs, recently discovered historical documents from a private collection, and archival ephemera from Draper's family, this beautiful tome reveals Draper's fascinating journey and the real stories behind her ground-breaking work.
The High Style Of Dorothy Draper
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Author : Donald Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Museum of City of New York
Release Date : 2006
The High Style Of Dorothy Draper written by Donald Albrecht and has been published by Museum of City of New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Interior decoration categories.
I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right. Dorothy Draper Dorothy Draper's bold, trendsetting designs defined American interior style from 1930 to 1950 and continue to influence designers today. A quintessential New
Warmth And Friendly Glamour
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Author : Allison Feldman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Warmth And Friendly Glamour written by Allison Feldman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Women interior decorators categories.