Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0926494279 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. Annetta said Self-made tastemaker. An exclusive self-made member of the design cognoscenti, Elsie de Wolfe was a social climber and a tastemaker. This is an unrivalled publication of a woman who pretty much defined style in the early part of the "Self-made tastemaker" according to S. Annetta. An exclusive self-made member of the design cognoscenti, Elsie de Wolfe was a social climber and a tastemaker. This is an unrivalled publication of a woman who pretty much defined style in the early part of the 20th century and is recognized as being. 0th century and is recognized as being. ms de wolfe Ramon Delgado great book for historical ideas of how interior design was really started and approached at the turn of the centuryms de wolfe really is a super a super star!!!!. HISTORICAL SENSATION THIS BOOK IS AN HISTORICAL SENSATION.A WONDERFUL READ AND FULL OF STUNNING PICTURES; WELL WORTH HAVING; MAYBE TWO IN YOUR LIBRARY ONE TO KEEP AND ONE TO CONSTANTLY REFER TO FOR INSPIRATIONA MUST HAVE !!!!
Ogden Armour, to name a few) and concludes with a timeline of her works. Elsie de Wolfe is a 20th-century legend and is the mother of modern interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. Her name is familiar to many who practice the art of interior design or who are linked to the fashionable world of tastemaking. She provided appropriate settings for the new rich in the first half of the
In her later career, she traded in genteel American aristocracy for rising Hollywood stars such as Ethel Barrymore and Gary Cooper. A hollow table on casters was also thought to be an asset in a dressing room, as were a heated towel rack, a wall cabinet, lots of shelves and hooks, and a shallow bottle closet. . She began with the residence she shared with companion and theatrical manager Elisabeth Marbury and expanded her client list to include newly moneyed Americans looking for social respectability via graceful, 18th-century-inspired interiors: Anne Morgan, Condé Nast, Henry Clay Frick, J. Sparke proceeds through these chintz-draped residences of the "smart set" like any good docent: a touch of background followed by a detailed tour: "De Wolfe was extremely par