"In the Pink: Dorothy Draper--America's Most Fabulous Decorator" by Carleton Varney, published by Pointed Leaf Press 2006, First Edition, Second Printing.

Dust jacket; hard boards, both boards are decorated, large format: 11.1/4" x 12"; decorated endpapers, 216 pages including Index and Bibliography, heavy glossy paper, fully illustrated, fine condition.

"This book is a work of art"

"Dorothy Draper created the most beautiful, lavish American interior design from a most nostalgic period. I wanted to see big, rich-in-color, photography of as many examples of her work as possible, and this large coffee-table sized book does not disappoint. Dreamy, & brings back beautiful memories of a stay in an old Southern hotel with interiors designed by Draper. Her rooms had taken my breath away. Her name & style became etched on my brain forever." [a private review]

"Thanks to her originality as a stylist and her daring as a businesswoman, Dorothy Draper 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 "Dorotheum," the cafeteria at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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..."

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US: Media (c 2-8 days) -------- $14.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-6 weeks) -- $56.50
World: Priority (c 2-7 weeks) --- $94.50