Has there ever been an American decorator as famous as Dorothy Draper? Draper was a preacher and teacher whose how-to books and Good Housekeeping columns provided middle-class housewives with affordable ideas for making their homes more functional and comfortable. Thanks to her originality as a stylist and her daring as a businesswoman, she became one of the most respected career women in the United States. In the Pink: Dorothy Draper, America’s Most Fabulous Decorator, lavishly illustrates for the first time Draper’s most important projects. From the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia and Quitandinha in Brazil to her innovative fabrics for F. Schumacher & Co. and her automobile and airplane interiors of the 1950s, Draper continues to influence designers today. Contents: Chapter one: She’ll Take Manhattan Chapter two: Ask Dorothy Chapter three: Go for Baroque Chapter four: Get Well Soon Chapter five: Living It Up Chapter six: Bolts of Inspiration Chapter seven: All Aboard Chapter eight: My Dorothy AUTHOR: Carleton Varney grew up in Nahant, Massachusetts. After Varney graduated from Oberlin College, his studies took him to the University of Madrid and Europe. Upon returning to New York in 1962, he earned a Master’s Degree in Education from New York University and later joined the decorating firm of Dorothy Draper and Company, Inc. Varney writes a regular syndicated column that appears in the Palm Beach Daily News. He has published twenty-seven books on decorating including his latest, Mr. Color, penned two novels, and written the official biography of Dorothy Draper. He has just released his first CD, Music with Style, for Rick Dees Entertainment. SELLING POINTS: .Contains two hundred never-before-published photographs, artifacts, and ephemera from the Dorothy Draper Inc. archive .Carleton Varney is uniquely positioned as the author of this book; he joined the Dorothy Draper, Inc. in 1960, when he was twenty-nine years old .This is a reprint of the first illustrated monograph on this seminal American designer ILLUSTRATIONS: 100 colour & 100 b/w
