THE HIGH STYLE OF
DOROTHY DRAPER
By Donald Albrecht

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 York's 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.

 

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