In the Pink: Dorothy Draper America's Most Fabulous Decorator

By Carleton Varney

Has there ever been an American decorator as famous as Dorothy Draper? Like Martha Stewart, 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. She shocked the design world in 1937 when she decorated the thirty-seven-story Hampshire House apartment hotel on Central Park South in New York City, delivering a project that became indicative of her signature touch - 'baroque fantasy'. In the Pink: Dorothy Draper, America's Most Fabulous Decorator, by Carleton Varney, lavishly illustrates Draper's most important projects.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985225602
• ISBN13: 9780985225605
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Shannongrove Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.3" x 12.0"