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DECORATING IS FUN! After being out of print for more than sixty years, Decorating Is Fun! is finally being reissued with its original illustrations. Amazingly, the book which was originally published in 1939 on the eve of World War II, is still practical, amusing, and inspirational. Draper's earnest enthusiasm feels fresh and contemporary. She believed that though there were troubles in the world, oneÕs home should be a refuge, a cheerful place for entertaining one's friends and a colorful and comfortable shelter from the storm. Decorating Is Fun! is also a serious book about decorating that does not take itself too seriously. In her heyday, Dorothy Draper (1889-1969) was the most famous decorator in America. She had a monthly column in Good Housekeeping magazine and decorated luxury residences and hotels like the Hampshire House in New York and the Greenbrier in West Virginia, along with restaurants, nightclubs, houses, apartment buildings, and airplanes. List
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THE HIGH STYLE OF DOROTHY
DRAPER Dorothy Draper's bold, trendsetting designs defined American interior style from 1920 to 1950 and continue to influence designers today. A quintessential New Yorker, her work also found popularity throughout the United States and abroad, earning her contracts in California, Chicago, Brazil and more. From May 2 to August 27, 2006 her famous personality and career will be documented through The High Style of Dorothy Draper, a catalog and exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. Never-before-seen photographs, designs, artwork and ephemera have been provided from the collection of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc., The Carleton Varney Design Group. The catalog, written by Donald Albrecht, curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York, examines six of her most influential projects: New YorkÕs Carlyle apartment hotel and Hampshire House apartment hotel; the Arrowhead Springs Hotel and Spa in San Bernardino, California; the Camellia House Supper Club of the Drake Hotel in Chicago; the Greenbrier Resort of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; and the interior of the Convair 880 jet airplane. List
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