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Article: 20th-century glamour: designs by Dorothy Draper, a midcentury decorating star, inspire a new set of pieces by Kindel Furniture.(Storefront)
- Article from:
- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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SHE WAS AMBITIOUS, BEAUTIFUL, well-born, and a natural tastemaker. As Mark Hampton recounted in his book Legendary Decorators of the Twentieth Century, Dorothy Draper's decorating projects as a young wife were so charming--much as her cousin Sister Parish's early efforts were a few decades later--that she sold one house "lock, stock, and barrel" and began another. Draper went into business in 1925 and did her best work in hotels--among them the Carlyle and the Hampshire House in New York, and the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia. Her style was described by Hampton as "crisp classicism ... combined with huge scale and bold colors." This fall, Kindel Furniture is adding ...
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