First illustrated monograph on this seminal American designer Two hundred never-before-published photographs, artefacts, and ephemera from the 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 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 for the first time Draper s most important projects. 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. AUTHOR Carleton Varney is president of Dorothy Draper & Co., Inc., Americas oldest established interior design firm. He has written numerous books on interior design and continues to design for such world-famous hotels and resorts as the Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs,West Virginia and the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan. ILLUSTRATIONS 14 colour & 156 b/w illustrations
