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A LIFE IN GOOD TASTE.(Profile of Elsie de Wolfe)(Biography)
From 1938, Janet Flanner profiles Elsie de Wolfe
In 1921, at the pinnacle of her decorating career, Elsie de Wolfe sued one of her clients for neglecting to pay her for seventeen thousand dollars' worth of furniture. De Wolfe had never before set foot in a courtroom, but cross-examination presented no terrors for a woman who, at the age of fifty-six, was plucky enough to perform headstands in public. When the opposing attorney asked whether she had written a certain letter, she replied that she was not a stenographer. When asked whether she had overseen the furniture shipment, she replied that she was not a shipper. "Well," the lawyer asked, "what do you do, Miss ...
- Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques September 1, 2005 700+ words
Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration By Penny Sparke MA-318 Our price $85.00 Elsie de Wolfe made her reputation through her consummate skill as a designer. Her...
- Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration.
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Abercrombie, Stanley August 1, 2005 700+ words
Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration by Penny Sparke New York: Acanthus Press, $85 372 pages, 300 illustrations [12 color] Elsie de Wolfe, we've read all too often, was the first interior designer--which...
- Elsie de Wolfe; the birth of modern interior decoration.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
0926494279 Elsie de Wolfe; the birth of modern interior decoration. Sparke, Penny. Acanthus...00 Hardcover NK2004 Considered the mother of interior decoration, Elsie de Wolfe introduced light and air into previously dark and cluttered Victorian...
- Elsie de Wolfe: a theatrical talent who brought drama into the home. .
- Magazine article from: House Beautiful Pittel, Christine October 1, 2002 700+ words
The dark-haired dynamo Elsie de Wolfe virtually invented decorating as...got better reviews than she did), de Wolfe printed up new business cards and...Bernhardt. A lifelong Francophile, de Wolfe considered 18th-century France...
- Elsie De Wolfe
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Elizabeth A. De Wolfe. Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Kolmer, Elizabeth March 22, 2002 700+ words
...Plagrave, 2002. xiv + 233 pp. $55.00. DE WOLFE'S BOOK Shaking the Faith is a fine scholarly...literature. Without providing statistics, De Wolfe states that over the course of Shaker...outnumbered lifelong converts. According to De Wolfe there are extant at least two dozen texts...
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- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Interior Design Abercrombie, Stanley November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Partner in Fisher Weisman Design & Decoration by Elsie de Wolfe New York: Rizzoli International Publications, $26 368 pages, 16 illustrations Elsie de Wolfe's 1914 book, thought to have been based on articles...