Stoneleigh Hall in Tuxedo Park, New York, 1928 Dorothy Draper Private Collectio. Draper was born in 1889 into the New York upper crust society immortalized by Edith Wharton’s Gilded Age novels.

Dorothy Draper, America`s best known interior decorator from the 1920s through the 1950s, ... Author of a column titled Ask Dorothy Draper (which ran in 70 newspapers), ...

It might not be immediately apparent, watching her 1957 TV appearance with Edward R. Murrow, but Dorothy Draper, the so-called, duchess of decorating, was her era's Martha Stewart. "We always say ...

Thursday through May 22, Bergdorf Goodman will display Dorothy Draper windows to help launch Varney’s new book, “In the Pink: Dorothy Draper, America’s Most Fabulous Decorator.” ...

What the world needs now is more Dorothy Draper. Draper, who published “Decorating is Fun!” in 1939, right before World War II, “believed that though there were troubles in the world, one ...

When I rented my first Washington apartment in 1976, I hadn’t a clue who Dorothy Draper was. But it turned out that the bold green, black and white lobby and exotic banana-leaf paper hallways at ...

Carleton Varney: Well, I don’t do books that are just picture books. There has to be copy that relates to my clients and relates to my life. This is my 34th book; I started in the 60s, and when ...

When the story of someone’s life is written by another person it’s always nice to see it written by someone who not only knew them but took the time to ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — If Dorothy Draper were still alive, no doubt she would approve of her namesake exhibit at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. Just imagine this grande dame of design, wearing ...