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Bold Whimsy.(decorator Dorothy Draper)(Brief article)
Byline: Laura Jacobs
Cross manners matriarch Emily Post with clever couturiere Elsa Schiaparelli and whom would you get? Interior decorator Dorothy Draper, that's who. Like Post, Draper was a rich girl from Tuxedo Park, New York, raised to society but working to reach the masses through her best-selling books and bites ("If it looks right, it is right"). Like Schiaparelli, Draper had a deep feeling for the surreal, an unblinking eye that saw above and beyond. It was Dorothy Draper who dominated American decorating through the 30s and 40s, her disciplined flamboyance not only rousing housewives in Podunk but influencing high-end commercial interiors, which was a first. She was so much the last word that the press eventually made her a word-a verb, no less: "to Draperize." From May 2 to August 27-with vintage photographs, drawings, company designs, original furniture, and a 1957 television interview with ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 6, 2006 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: House Beautiful Greene, Elaine September 1, 2004 700+ words
...Twentieth Century, Dorothy Draper's decorating projects...Hampshire House in New York, and the Greenbrier...Furniture is adding eleven Dorothy Draper pieces to its Varney...BACK IN PRINT Designer Dorothy Draper (above left), though...
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- Magazine article from: New York Goodman, Wendy March 27, 2006 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) April 3, 2007 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly February 14, 2007 700+ words
...World-renowned interior designer, Dorothy Draper & Co., has been retained to...and Greenbrier in West Virginia, Dorothy Draper & Co. brings a new level of...time they pass through this signature Dorothy Draper & Co. lobby." Led by Andrea...
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- Magazine article from: Interior Design Abercrombie, Stanley February 1, 1989 700+ words
Dorothy Draper & Co. continues a longstanding relationship with the legendary...the rambling resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and Dorothy Draper. Their relationship goes back to 1946, when Mrs. Draper was hired...
- Women's work.(various handicrafts, various artists;Bard Graduate Center for...
- Magazine article from: House Beautiful FILLER, MARTIN November 1, 2000 700+ words
...The first seven decades of 20th-century interior design are represented by Elsie de Wolfe, Eleanor McMillen Brown, Dorothy Draper, and Sister Parish, a quartet of formidable WASPs quite at odds with Kirkham's otherwise multicultural approach. In...